We welcome adults to in-person and online therapy.

Individual Adult Therapy

Your unique path, our compassionate guidance

We help with

Here are some of the challenges that our therapists and counselors can help you address:

Anxiety, Fears and Worries

Emotion self-regulation issues

Grief and loss

Life transitions, stage of life

Panic/Phobias

PTSD/Trauma

Relationship problems

Self-criticism/ Perfectionism

Work-life balance

How we work

One of our core values is developing a safe and trusting therapeutic relationship where you could feel seen, heard and understood as who you are.

Therapy process can naturally include following stages:

Setting up goals and expectations for therapy.

1

Developing self-awareness and new skills, and working through issues that brought you to therapy.

2

Integrating new levels of self-awareness and skills to everyday life.

3

Concluding therapy and providing a supportive transition.

4

At Playhouse Family and Group Therapy, we as therapists share a value of integrative approach to therapy that honors all dimensions of human life.

Meet our team

Clinicians providing therapy for individual adults

Svetlana Tikhonova.....

MA, LMFT

Pati Palmer.....

MA, AMFT, APCC

Marva Prag.....

MA, AMFT

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Each clinician has their own variety of training and experiences, and can combine talk therapy with non-verbal therapy modalities based on your needs.

Please contact a therapist of your choice for a free consultation to see if there is a good match.

FAQ

About the individual adult therapy

How long does therapy take?

The lengths of counseling or therapy can vary from a few sessions to a half a year or even a few years if someone needs and wants more support. We as therapists are committed to our part of this process. Nevertheless, we can’t predict how long it might take. Please discuss your concerns about therapy length with your therapist.

What makes the therapy process effective?

Therapy process is a collaboration of a client and therapist on behalf of the client’s goals for therapy. Commitment on both sides of this collaboration is important.

There are many scientific attempts to predict the effectiveness of therapy, to increase chances that the clients will receive the best support. According to a summary of 50-years of studies of Client-Centered Therapy (Bozarth, 2002), therapy effectiveness depended on a variety of factors: quality of the relationship of the client and therapist (30%), the resources of the client (40%), therapeutic techniques (15%), and placebo effect (15%).

We as therapists are committed to our part of a therapeutic process by creating a safe, empathetic, non-judgemental therapeutic space and trust. We are committed to an ongoing professional training and continuing education to ensure we have a toolbox with a variety of therapeutic techniques that could be helpful depending on the unique needs of our clients.

Contacts

Our psychotherapy and counseling practice is conveniently located on the border of Los Altos and Mountain View in the San Francisco Bay Area, very close to Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Cupertino and San Jose.