Welcome to my private practice!

I am a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist located in the San Francisco Bay Area. My private practice Kith & Kin was born out of the desire to provide practical and strength based counseling services to children, adolescents, and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, life transitions, and difficulty navigating interpersonal relationships.

Originally from Southern California, I have been living in the bay area for almost twenty years. I earned my Bachelor’s Degree from San Francisco State University in 2009 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Human Sexuality. I went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University in 2012 specializing in Marriage & Family Therapy, Licensed Professional Clinical Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy.

In the last ten years of practice, I have worked in a variety of settings including schools, homes, community centers, inpatient behavioral hospitals, and private practice. The intersection of my experience has provided me with a strong understanding of the academic stressors and supports available to children within the school system; children and adults experiencing crisis due to trauma, abuse, or in need of higher level of support due to mental health issues; and the impact of family life, career stress, and trauma has on individuals, couples, and families.

I bring humor and levity to my work and strive to help clients reconnect with their natural strengths and abilities to help ease life’s transitions and obstacles. Working from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) lens, I help clients to understand how their perspective (thoughts) impact how they feel and experience the world. Through hearing your story, I work to identify themes, triggers, and strengths to increase insight and self-awareness within your relationship with yourself and loved ones. Furthermore, I teach Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to help support distress tolerance, emotional regulation, Mindfulness, and Interpersonal Effectiveness within relationships. For clients who are interested in indirect ways to explore their world, I offer Expressive Arts Therapy to facilitate self-exploration and healing.

I am a collaborative clinician and work from the perspective that each client is the expert of themselves and their lives, while I am the expert in finding interventions and skills that will support my clients achieve their goals. Together, clients and I create strength-based individual treatment plans that are solution focused, goal orientated, and practical.

My hope is that each of my clients leave my private practice feeling capable and able thrive as their authentic self.

Warmly,

Tya Bennett