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Childhood trauma can cause you mental trouble long after it occurred. It may affect your relationships, self-image, mental health, and even your physical wellbeing.

Mental Health Match connects you with top-notch therapists who can help you manage the feelings, behaviors, and triggers associated with traumatic childhood events. Whether you are located in downtown San Francisco, Bayview, Chinatown, Civic Center, or even Fishermans Wharf, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Childhood Trauma Symptoms

Childhood trauma stems from childhood abuse, neglect, accidents, and more. It can affect adolescents, teens, and adults, causing them to experience a wide range of symptoms, some of which include:

  • Chronic sadness or depression
  • Worry
  • Anger and irritability
  • Panic attacks
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Mood swings
  • Poor concentration

If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, therapy can help to improve the quality of your life. You can learn more about childhood trauma and how it affects you in this article from therapist Lacy Shawn.

Overcome Your Childhood Trauma with Therapy

There’s no better time to seek treatment for childhood trauma than now - therapy can help you heal and let go of the trauma. Mental Health Match can help get you started by connecting you with a licensed therapist fast. Get childhood trauma therapy and counseling online or in-person. Browse below, or use our therapist matching survey to get personalized results.

San Francisco, CA Childhood Trauma Therapists - List Your Practice on Mental Health Match

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Zuneybi Contreras
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Embrace your strengths that will help with life's challenges. We will gently challenge those negative thoughts we sometimes get stuck in and build tools that will help create a new path forward based on your individual needs.


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Embrace your strengths that will help with life's challenges. We will gently challenge those negative thoughts we sometimes get stuck in and build tools that will help create a new path forward based on your individual needs.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe in a collaborative approach as you are the expert in your own life. I believe we all have strengths and resiliency that help us grow and thrive and we all need a little help at times. I am here to guide you along the way.

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  • Anxiety
  • Child Behavior Issues
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Rape and Sexual Assault
  • Trauma
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Vanja P. Buckley
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Learn specific tools to help you change and improve the aspects of your life that you wish to change. Explore patterns that reinforced ongoing issues in relationships such as pleasing, poor boundaries, difficulty communicating, neglecting own needs.


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Learn specific tools to help you change and improve the aspects of your life that you wish to change. Explore patterns that reinforced ongoing issues in relationships such as pleasing, poor boundaries, difficulty communicating, neglecting own needs.

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I have a passion for emotional wellness, self-discovery and empowerment and am dedicated to helping individuals who seek personal growth and development, healing from painful feelings and trauma and coping with anxiety and relationship issues.

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  • Anxiety
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Communication Skills
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Grief
  • Life Transitions
  • Perfectionism
  • Relationships
  • Relationship Skills
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Worth
  • Trauma
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Ola Ojeikere
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Together we will focus on your most important concerns and goals. The first session will focus on getting to know you, your concerns and goals. Together we will problem solve to address presenting concerns, re them and create healthy solutions.


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Together we will focus on your most important concerns and goals. The first session will focus on getting to know you, your concerns and goals. Together we will problem solve to address presenting concerns, re them and create healthy solutions.

Something to know about my approach is:

As a strength-based clinician, I use skills to identify strengths to promote resilience. I primarily use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational interviewing techniques. I often include Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and more.

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  • Anxiety
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Grief
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Trauma
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Katrina Johnson
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Guide you to connect to your authentic self, inner wisdom, strengths, and compassion. I work with adults, teens, children, couples and families to find balance and a greater sense of well-being.


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Guide you to connect to your authentic self, inner wisdom, strengths, and compassion. I work with adults, teens, children, couples and families to find balance and a greater sense of well-being.

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My holistic and integrative approach is used to meet clients' unique needs and goals. My practice is trauma informed and inclusive of all genders, ages, races, cultures, sexualities, and spiritualities.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Chronic Illness
  • Depression
  • Gender Identity
  • Grief
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Transitions
  • Relationships
  • Trauma
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Jen Siladi
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Identify the thing you're really feeling underneath the surface reaction, how your unmet childhood needs manifest in your present day life and key relationships. Heal the wounded parts and replace the strategies that no longer serve you.


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Identify the thing you're really feeling underneath the surface reaction, how your unmet childhood needs manifest in your present day life and key relationships. Heal the wounded parts and replace the strategies that no longer serve you.

Something to know about my approach is:

It's like an experience elevator. We start with the relationship context of your thoughts, then explore feelings connected to those thoughts, physical sensations you notice, the more vulnerable emotions and we finally get to the unmet needs.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult ADHD
  • Couples
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Family of Origin
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Loneliness
  • Premarital Counseling
  • Relationship Distress
  • Stress
  • Working Professionals
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Jen Siladi remote and phone therapy in California, Delaware, Florida, Vermont