Chris Datiles, Licensed Psychotherapist

My clients describe me as:

Warm, accepting, honest, intentional, community oriented, and creative.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe that healing happens when we strengthen our relationship with ourselves and feel a sense of safety and connection with others. I utilize mind-body approaches to help you reconnect with yourself and your creativity in the face of loss.

Together, we will:

Engage in practices that help you feel grounded in a sense of self, agency, regulation, and self-trust. I support you to be in relationship with your nervous system and overwhelming emotions so that life feels less confining and exhausting.

I specialize in working with people who:

Are navigating change and loss brought by death, separation, aging parents, and cancer. Many of my clients identify as creatives, queer and trans, widowed, children of immigrants, caregivers, and partners coming into consensual non-monogamy.

I became a therapist because:

My experiences with loss influenced me to create spaces where people don’t have to hide or contain their emotions or grief to make others comfortable.

Something that stands out about where I offer therapy is:

We get creative to understand how you experience and make sense of the world. This can look like tapping into memes, TikToks, music, and more.

More about me and my practice:

I'm a queer Filipino therapist that grew up in the Bay Area. I’m a former educator. My senior year Chicano Literature class inspired me to study Ethnic Studies and Multicultural Counseling. I love libraries, graphic novels, and my cat.