Individual, Couples and Adolescent

Therapy

Elaine Walker AMFT #122899

Supervised by Rosemary McCracken MFT #86912

Welcome,

I know it can be intimidating to start the process of therapy and to reach out for help. I am happy you found yourself here.
Here’s a little about me and my practice:
I am rooted in this work and the belief that the client and I are co-creators and adventurers in the process of healing. When we are grounded in the present and in the therapeutic relationship, the awareness and the subsequent understanding of ourselves that emerges can contribute to an alchemical healing process.
I have witnessed, through my process and the process of others, the power and possibility of healing that this kind of work holds. I believe we have an innate capacity for healing. This work helps you to find and nurture the inner healer in you. The work also includes exploring and processing deep relational patterns that can lead to more flow, fulfillment, pleasure and certainty in your life.
I work with empathy, curiosity and creativity to meet clients where they are in their lives. I consider the therapeutic space to be sacred; akin to a laboratory, art studio or garden where we can learn and unlearn, co-creating a nurturing space as we get to know our deepest selves. I work collaboratively with warmth and openness. I invite you to come as you are and hope to meet you there.
I take a somatically and trauma-informed approach, that is slow and gentle in nature, to help clients address and move through any trauma that they may hold. I also work with a liberation psychology lens encouraging greater awareness of our relationships to systemic oppression.
As a farmer/gardener for over 10 years, I am deeply connected to nature and facilitate healing through land-based rituals and ceremonies. Some of my trainings include courses and workshops in Hakomi, Reiki and Jungian dreamwork. I am inspired by gathering, infinite interconnectedness, plant wisdom, movement, poetry, liminal spaces, the ocean, seed sovereignty, art and tarot.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more. Whether we work together or not, I am honored to be a part of your journey and wish you the best.
I acknowledge that I am a descendant of white settlers living and practicing on unceded Yelamu, Ramaytush Ohlone land. I pay a rematriation land tax to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and work to dismantle white supremacy.
https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/shuumi-land-tax/

I work with individuals, couples and adolescents who are curious, sensitive and intuitive. People who are healers and therapists in training, artists, activists, seekers, adventurers, plant lovers, and/or witches. I work with people using creative and relational approaches to healing such as ancestor work, fantasy explorations, ritual, art, tarot and simply being together in whatever is.

Some topics that we can explore:

Ancestral trauma as well as ancestral relating and healing

Student loans, economic displacement and other forms of structural oppression as well as money magic and empowerment

Identity including race, gender, sexuality and queerness

Whiteness and awakening to a racist system

Embodiment, sensuality, somatic awareness, emotional regulation, mindfulness

Imaginal spaces and internal depths

Relational wounding and healing including finding a deeper sense of self, boundaries and agency

Adult children of addicts, adult children of emotionally immature parents, adult children who had to be caregivers at an early age

Grief, anger and anxiety in all its forms including climate anxiety

Major life shifts including break-ups, divorce, career changes, etc. and their composting

The internal critic and perfectionism

Living and moving in marginalized places, people with the experience of living “in between”

San Franciscans surviving in an ever-changing place

Dreams (both waking and sleeping)

I am currently offering both Telehealth and In-person Sessions. Clients must be based in California.

Individuals

Maintaining curiosity and compassion, we work together to uncover and unpack how our past relates to our present. I work with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds wanting to explore a wide range of issues including sexuality, trauma, body image and relational wounding. I believe working with the therapeutic relationship can be the alchemy important to healing. When we have been wounded in past relationships, true healing can come from being and experiencing something different in relation to another. I believe that grounding our work in the therapeutic relationship can help us deepen our understanding of how we show up in relation to others, process relational wounds, and develop a greater sense of self, choice and change within ourselves and our relationships.
Couples

Working collaboratively to create an environment where members of the couple feel safe enough to express and explore their genuine selves, we seek to move through ruptures in relationship and create deeper intimacy. Therapy can be a place of learning about one another so that we can understand attachment wounds, needs and attunement. I believe that although we are often wounded in relationship, we can also find profound healing in relationship and that our relationships can be a pathway to spiritual growth.
Adolescents

Adolescence can be an especially challenging time as developmentally appropriate transformations rapidly take place. Teens begin to develop a sense of self outside of their families and an increased need for independence. As they begin this process many teens struggle with how they fit into the world. Therapy can offer to support identity exploration and healthy relationship building. Working to create a safe environment, we creatively explore self-development and build tools for self-expression. Practicing expression in therapy can help clients feel more empowered to find their voice in the outside world.