Collaboratively, we work to:   

Re-invite understanding, appreciation, and fun

Re-join as a team in solving problems

Re-claim dreams, preferences and hopes

Re-discover shared values

Couples meet with two therapists who help overcome problems by emphasizing strengths and focusing on solutions.  In a safe and respectful environment, couples can discover shared intentions, reinforce strategies for enhanced teamwork, and create distance from the common problems of anger, blame, and conflict.

Our Pledge as white, cisgender, female therapists

We are therapists grounded in the belief that people with all identities, orientations, and abilities in all bodies deserve access to quality mental health care.  

As Narrative therapists, we see people as resourceful and as separate from their problems which are situated in and informed by social contexts. 

We are antiracist, social justice-oriented therapists who invite conversations that confront and dismantle systemic oppression, white supremacy, and gender constructions that constrict people’s lives.  

We understand that our learning is a lifelong journey and hold ourselves to the highest professional standards. As such, we welcome feedback to truly co-create healing and transformative conversations.

We will continue to educate ourselves and others, to use our voices as therapists to speak out for inequity and injustice, accept accountability, and work to correct and repair.

We are continuously supporting and participating in the ‘cultures of change’ Resmaa Menakem writes about, to build the world we want to live in.

Linda Block, MFT, and Katharina Kienböck, MFT have worked together for the past 15 years in a variety of clinical and educational settings.  Their collaborative expertise allows for ongoing and short-term therapy, which they call Relationship Tune-ups, as a powerful way of addressing daily tensions and problematic issues.  

Besides their private practice, Linda and Katharina are co-chairs of the Racial and Social Justice Committee at their local California Association of Marriage and Family Therapist Chapter. They also host a monthly Zoom Salon for Mental Health Professionals called Taking the Next Steps Together Toward Anti-Racism.