Welcome
Effective and sustainable trauma therapy for youth to older adults.
The healing journey can start whenever you're ready.
Services
CBT, Trauma-Focused CBT, CPT
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), specialized Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) are evidence-based modalities for children and adults struggling with anxiety, depression, and trauma.
DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is long-established evidence-based therapy designed to help people regulate their emotions, develop coping skills, and improve relationships to promote a life worth living.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy is a structured and evidence-based treatment that helps individuals process distressing memories and traumatic experiences, reducing their emotional impact and allowing for healing and growth.
SE
Somatic Experiencing is a gentle, body-based therapy that helps heal trauma and chronic stress by supporting your nervous system to safely release stored survival responses and restore a greater sense of balance, regulation, and resilience.
Contact
- Serving California, Arizona, Montana, and Oregon (in-person availability in Encinitas, CA)
Chris Cook (he/him) started his career as a clinical social worker in 2015 following receipt of his Master in Social Welfare (MSW) from UC Berkeley. He worked with individuals and their family systems providing individual and group therapy while employed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
While working with CDCR as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Chris attended Golden Gate University law school at night, affording him the opportunity to continue supporting individuals and families therapeutically. He graduated in 2020, earning mutliple honors. Chris worked as an attorney for Bay Area Legal Aid, Sonoma County Public Defender’s Office, and in private practice. He simultaneously continued to work as a therapist providing clinical services in the prison system as well as in the outpatient setting before transitioning to his solo private practice, allowing him to focus wholly on providing effective, trauma therapy.
Chris is also a co-owner of Sage Families, a therapy group practice offering an innovative, team-based, and trauma-informed family reconnection therapy, coparenting counseling, and family mediation.