Associates
Associates are post masters clinicians who are working on their required 3000 clinical hours, under direct supervision of a licensed clinician, prior to being able to take their licensing board exams and become a licensed therapist.
Logan Begneaud, APCC (she/her)
My name is Logan Begneaud and I am an Associate Professional Clinical Counselor. I earned my Master’s degree in Mental Health and Wellness Counseling at New York University (NYU). My clinical training includes providing therapy to survivors of interpersonal violence at The Crime Victims Treatment Center (CVTC) in New York and a two-year post-graduate training program at The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley.
My orientation is Psychodynamic Relational therapy and I believe deeply in the transformative and healing potential of the therapeutic relationship based in shared trust, mutual respect and brave vulnerability. I aim to help clients to identify interpersonal patterns, build self-awareness and tap into strengths to make forward-moving life changes.
I bring warmth, compassion, and a deep respect for each client’s unique experience to each session. My approach is supportive, nonjudgmental, direct and integrates various modalities, including psychodynamic, somatic, internal family systems, and trauma-informed therapies.
I am currently offering tele-therapy to adults across California and encourage you to reach out for a free consultation to see if it feels like a good fit.
Christi Baker, AMFT (she/her)
My name is Christi Baker, and I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. Relational work was my calling. In response, I forged my own path through the economic justice and counseling psychology fields and through system-oriented and people-centered approaches. For the past three decades, I have stitched together a quilt of eclectic but connected experiences related to personal and collective well-being and liberation. Presently, I am a therapist to individuals and couples, where I use depth psychology to explore their past and present and facilitate their transformative work.
Informed by being trauma-informed and systems-oriented, I bring deep listening and genuine curiosity to therapy. I use an intersectionality framework to understand how people show up and how systems work and shape their experiences. I work with diverse people and couples who are looking for more meaning and alignment with their own values and stories; people and couples who are seeking more connection to themselves and others.
I tend to work with dreamers, creators, nurturers, and changemakers with varied identities across race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and age. I have experience working with anxiety, mood states, relationship and attachment issues, trauma and complex trauma, transitions, grief and loss, and altered states of reality/psychosis.
I am currently offering in-person therapy to teens, couples, and adults in the Bay Area and tele-therapy to teens across California. I encourage you to reach out for a free consultation to see if we feel like a good fit.
Jess Butler, PhD, AMFT, APCC (she/they)
My name is Jess Butler, and I'm an Associate Marriage & Family Therapist and Associate Professional Clinical Counselor. I’ve spent hundreds of hours working with clients dealing with relationship challenges, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, PTSD and C-PTSD, substance use, chronic illness, neurodivergence, gender identity, sexuality, aging, parenting, career changes, and emotional regulation. I’m also a former college professor with a PhD in sociology and gender studies. I’ve researched and written and taught about how social systems shape our internal experiences, and I’ve mentored hundreds of students as they moved through the confusing and stressful world of higher education. In both of these spaces, I’ve connected with people from all kinds of backgrounds in a way that honors their differences and recognizes their strengths.
I practice relational psychodynamic psychotherapy, which means we'll look together at how your early experiences have shaped your relationships and sense of self, and how your unconscious beliefs show up in your everyday life. Our work will vary depending on your needs, but it will always be inclusive, trauma-informed, and attuned to cultural differences. It will prioritize lasting change over quick fixes. It will be affirming, and it will be challenging. It will open up new ways of seeing and being in relationship with others and with yourself.
Therapy is not always fun or easy, and it takes courage. I'm in awe of anyone who steps into my office, nervous and exhausted but determined to make a change, and I'm honored to help facilitate that growth. I'll bring curiosity, openness, expertise, humor, and care; all you need to do is show up just as you are.
I'm currently offering therapy in person to adults and partners in the Bay Area and online across California. If my approach resonates with you, or you want to talk more about what therapy with me might be like, reach out for a free consultation—I'd love to meet you.