MINDFUL COUPLE AND FAMILY THERAPY INSTITUTE
JIA REBECCA LI
(FOUNDER)
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
婚姻和家庭心理治疗师
(中英文双语、加州执照)
OFFERING BOTH TELETHERAPY AND IN-PERSON SESSIONS
I have come to believe that loving presence is the most important thing we have to learn. This loving intimate connection with each other is the ground and purpose of our living, and the source of the healing that we do.
- Ron Kurtz
If you have butterflies in your stomach, invite them into your heart.
- Cooper Edens
I'm a PSYCHOTHERAPIST licensed to practice in California and a Clinical Fellow of AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy). I offer in-person sessions for clients in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through teletherapy, work with clients throughout CA.
I'm a member of CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists), AFTNC (Association of Family Therapists of Northern California), and SCV-CAMFT (Santa Clara Valley Chapter of CAMFT) and previously served on the Board of SCV-CAMFT and the board committee of CAMFT
As a Certified Hakomi Therapist, my work is very experiential and I work with the full spectrum of our experiences, from thoughts, behaviors and feelings to memories, images, impulses, body senses and tensions, core beliefs and more. I deeply value compassion, loving presence, mindfulness, and individual and relational wholeness.
(See my article on Hakomi)
In addition to private practice, I'm a clinical supervisor of the therapy program at Almaden Valley Counseling Services, which has served San Francisco Bay Area's mental health needs in Santa Clara County for over 40 years. I also offer a monthly support group for SCV-CAMFT to therapists who identify as Asian Pacific-Islanders.
Although I majored in psychology in my undergraduate (Beijing University, China) and graduate program (University of Chicago), I didn't become a psychotherapist until much later in life. In my 20's and 30's, I practiced law with dual license in New York and California, worked in investment banking, advised and invested in startups, and started a family. I traveled extensively for work and lived in many high energy but also high stress metropolitan areas, from New York, Chicago and Silicon Valley in the U.S. to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in Asia.
These lived experiences have proven to be invaluable strengths and assets now in my psychotherapy practice. I understand, at a much deeper level and in a more nuanced way, the demands and uncertainties in today's competitive work/life dynamics and their impact on individuals, relationships and families. As a bilingual, bi-cultural psychotherapist, I am also keenly aware of a wide array of cultural factors that impact my clients, regardless of their own race or ethnicity.
LANGUAGE:
I can offer psychotherapy sessions in both English and Chinese (Mandarin) languages.
Effective psychotherapy is both a science and an art. Not only does it require skills, insight, and experiential depth of the therapist but it also depends on the good fit between the therapist and you.
