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, Orinda, and through Telehealth throughout California.  We offer child and family play therapy, Hand in Hand Parenting support, holistic individual therapy, Brainspotting, Emotionally Focused Couples therapy, and professional consultation and trainings. We are currently seeing clients both in-person and online. We are highly trained in effective tele play therapy over video. 
Whether you are a child, parent, individual adult, or couple, 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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Parenting Talk in Orinda!

P)la(ynguage - it’s more than a play on words
A 6-week class for parents
Starts mid-September TBD
Mondays on Zoom 12pm
Saturdays at Orinda Park 12pm

In this experiential 6-week training for parents, participants will learn about play as the original love language of children (and therefore of humans) and how to put this essential skill into practice in order to foster a strong parent-child relationship, which is the foundation for raising humans with heart, wisdom, strength, and honor.
By the end of this training, participants will:
have a deeper understanding of what it means to love one’s child and oneself how essential play is to human growth and learning  how our modern lifestyles disconnect us from play and love from the very beginning of our lives and will have experienced what it’s like to use play as a gateway to joy in the present moment  receive loving attention from someone in a moment of play and in a moment of pain and will have practiced the skills of mindful self-compassion for dealing with the natural and unnatural stressors of parenthood  non-directive child-centered play supportive listening to the emotional pain of a loved one.
Led by child therapist and linguist, Nauser Wolfe, LMFT.
​Email Nauserbeartherapy@gmail.com for more information or to sign up

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE P)LA(YNGUAGE CLASS
Week 1: Parents will learn about the importance of play to human development and how prioritizing play in the way we parent increases the effectiveness of the way our culture practices the art of loving in two essential domains: respect and knowledge.

Week 2: Parents will gain an understanding of how our culture alienates us from play and love from an early age, and will begin to get in touch with the emotional impact this has on all of us.

Week 3: Parents will deepen their awareness of the benefits of play through experiential exercises and will learn a new way of playing with their children that maximizes the growth-inducing benefits of play
Week 4: Parents will practice using three important strategies for avoiding burnout: mindful self-compassion, Listening Partnerships, and Special Time

Week 5: Parents will take what they have learned about emotional self-care and apply it to a strategy for supporting emotional development and resilience in our children.
Week 6: Tying it all together, skills practice, concept review, Q&A, next steps and future possibilities

Each week’s class meets for 90 minutes. The class is capped at 6 participants. There will be a Zoom option on Mondays from 12-1:30 and an in-person option at Orinda Community Park on Saturdays from 12-1:30.

Cost: Sliding scale $350-$450
Hand in Hand Parenting Intensive
for Therapists
8-week Course
Thursdays Sept 14- Nov 2 2023
11am-1pm PST
​Zoom

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 Play Therapy Works 
by the Association for Play Therapy

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2354 Post St, Suite B,
​San Francisco, 94115
3655 Grand Avenue,
Oakland, CA 94610
Greenwood Court,
Orinda, CA 94563