SF Bay Play Therapy Family Counseling Center
A Helping Hand in the Journey of Childhood and Parenthood

We are Marriage and Family Therapists with locations in San Francisco, Oakland, and through Telehealth throughout California.  We offer child and family play therapy, parenting support, and professional consultation and trainings. We are currently seeing clients both in-person for fully vaccinated individuals 12 and up and masked children. We are also highly trained in effective tele play therapy over video. (See the trainings we have created for this modality here)
Whether you are a child, parent, or teacher, we want to empower you to connect deeply with yourself. We want to help you create meaningful and satisfying relationships. And more than anything,  to be able  to live a happy and harmonious life.

Through the tools of play therapy, practical coaching, and relational psychotherapy we help children and adults reflect,  build  stronger bonds, and find the inner resources to create the family life you are looking for.
Contact us to connect with our child and family therapists today. Discover how in person or tele play therapy can help your family get the support you need now.

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Therapy Services

Parenting Support
Family Play Therapy
Child Therapy
Tele Play Therapy
 Social Skills Groups
Individual and Couples Therapy
Parent Ed and Counselor Trainings

How to Talk to Your Kids about Race, Protests, and Racism

  Hand in Hand Parenting Professionals Intensive for Therapists and Educators
Supporting families with hand in hand parenting tools

 8 Wednesdays
10:30am-12:30pm PST
Sept 22 - Nov 10 21, 2021
Zoom Video Conference

Learn the latest developmental neuroscience and valuable new skills for supporting parents and children in your practice.
Join Karen Wolfe, LMFT for an eight-week intensive course in Hand in Hand Parenting, designed for therapists, social workers, early-childhood educators, childcare providers, and other professionals who care about families.

Emotional and behavioral issues are a larger and larger concern for families. And while you may understand that parenting can get very difficult in the places that were hard for the parent in their own childhood, it can be a struggle to share this information in a useful, actionable way.
See the video below to hear from other therapists, doctors and teachers who also incorporate Hand in Hand with their work with families. This video provides real life examples of how building an authentic connection through deep listening with a child as well as other parents, laughing through play, and making healthy boundaries through limit setting are all key components to creating positive outcomes for children facing trauma in our world today.

How Play Therapy Works 
by the Association for Play Therapy

How the Hand in Hand Parenting Tool of Special Time helps children feel more connected and have better behavior
2352 Post St, Suite 200,
​San Francisco, 94115
3655 Grand Avenue,
Oakland, CA 94610