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Therapy & Support

  • Individual Therapy

    I work with individuals navigating stress, life transitions, career shifts, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Our work may also focus on reconnecting with your sense of purpose, building resilience, and making meaningful behavior changes that support your well-being.

  • Resilience Training & Biofeedback

    If it is right for your needs, we can incorporate real-time Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback (HRVB) to improve stress-resilience. I typically integrate biofeedback with talk therapy to help identify therapeutic targets, assess how you’re responding to different approaches, and track progress over time. Home practice during the week is available.

  • Brief Career Coaching

    I also offer short-term career coaching—typically 3 to 6 sessions—to help you manage work-related stress and build skills for burnout resilience and interpersonal effectiveness. The hourly rate is the same as for therapy sessions. These coaching sessions are skills-focused and do not address deeper therapeutic concerns or involve diagnosis or treatment of mental health conditions.


It’s okay to wonder if therapy will be the right fit. If we choose to work together, I’ll bring empirically-supported techniques, practical skill-building, and a safe, supportive space for transformation.

I integrate technology gently - as a mind-body tool - to help you understand yourself more deeply, train your nervous system and build stress-resilience.

I’m a PhD-level licensed Clinical Psychologist (CA PSY26005), HRV Biofeedback Practitioner, and former Associate Professor at UCSF, with over 20 years of experience in psychotherapy and mind-body research (Learn more about my background).

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Kirstin Aschbacher, PhD

How it works

“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.”

~ Peter A. Levine