Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
License No: MFC 32323
2859 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-929-8502
1304 Solano Avenue
Albany, CA 94706
415-929-8502
van-deleteme[at]-deleteme-vanmetaxas [dot] com
Van Metaxas, M.A.
Individuals · Couples · Parents/Families
Adolescents · Young Adults · Adults
Education: M.A. from California Institute of Integral Studies at San Francisco, 1992; A.B. from Princeton University, 1984.
Experience / Training: I have been a practicing psychotherapist since 1990 and in private practice since 1995. For ten years, I was the Director of Counseling at an independent high school in San Francisco. I have supervised therapists-in-training for eight years, most recently in the graduate clinical program at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Professional Interests:
- Empowering adults in their 20's, 30's and 40's to engage life, work and relationships more fully.
- Helping individuals to resolve self-limiting beliefs that lead to depression, despair and a sense of powerlessness, meaninglessness and unworthiness in life.
- Deepening self-acceptance by helping adults to understand and transform the roots of depression, anxiety, shame, guilt, anger and aggression.
- Helping adults to heal from early childhood trauma and to reclaim the aliveness of their body, mind and spirit.
- Rekindling couple intimacy by helping couples to resolve old fears and bitterness, rebuild trust, and risk greater vulnerability and open-heartedness.
- Helping couples to transform self-protective strategies that undermine intimacy, including withdrawal, criticism, defensiveness and contempt.
- Empowering couples to navigate such couple transitions as moving in together, deciding to marry or start a family, dealing with infertility, adjusting to life with or without children, healing from affairs, launching children.
- Assisting individuals who have had ruptures or impasses with prior therapists to rebuild trust and recommit to their self-growth.
- Connecting to the sacred in everyday life.
Professional Affiliations / Activities
Northern California Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology
The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists