Kim Slipski, LMFT
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #143946
Gottman Level I | EMDR-Trained | IFS-Informed | RYT-200
It’s not what you know, but how you think.
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Like many therapists, marriage and family therapy is not my first career. I started in a more traditional path from UC Berkeley to a corporate career in tech & marketing in San Francisco and New York before my own experience with stress and burnout led me to take a step back and re-evaluate where I was putting my energy.
In the intervening years since leaving the corporate world, I’ve had the immense fortune to take my first sabbatical, backpack across Southeast Asia, train and teach yoga, and help other career changers and leaders in organizations find more purpose and balance as an executive, life, and career coach before returning to school and building my private practice.
Today I am also a proud mom of a still-very young chid, navigating the up’s and down’s of postpartum, new parenthood, and maintaining a strong marriage right alongside many of clients.
In addition to my passion for psychology and personal change, you will find I’m still an avid yoga practitioner, and love to hike, cook, and travel with my family when I’m not at work.
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Many of my clients identify as high-achievers, and find themselves in jobs as corporate and tech professionals, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and executives, or stretched and overwhelmed as parents trying to juggle it all.
Creative, successful, and often identified as “gifted” from an early age, many still struggle with stress, anxiety, perfectionism, and other challenges at home. However, quite a few still never felt like their problems were “bad enough” to justify therapy.
I love helping clients reach new levels of depth by “slowing down to speed up,” as well as using immersive modalities like EMDR and IFS to help clients work through deep-rooted material and even achieve targeted performance enhancement.
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Anxiety
Burnout
Trauma
Relationships
Parents
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A key tenet in my life is balance. That’s why you’ll find much of my approach is a continuous dynamic between slower and deeper healing modalities that go below surface-level tools to actively address the root of the issue, alongside more positive and active approaches from my coaching experience that help clients actually integrate and take action on new learning.
As a trained yoga teacher, I also love bringing mindfulness, metaphor, and the mind-body connection into my work. All of which I keep grounded in my deep interest in neuroscience and the nervous system.
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Credentials
Kim Slipski, LMFT #143946
Advanced Training
Gottman Method Couples Therapy - Level 1, The Gottman Institute (11 CEs)
EMDR Therapy - EMDR Basic Training, 5-Day Intensive, EMDR Consulting (40 CEs)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) - IFS Online Circle: Foundations of the IFS Model (40.75 CEs)
Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy - Dr. Sue Johnson's Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis (16.75 CEs)
Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy - Introduction to the Hakomi Method (12 CEs)
Child-Centered Play Therapy - Play Therapy Online Training Academy (24 CEs)
TF-CBT - Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (11 CEs)
Mindfulness in Clinical Practice - AULA
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - AULA
The Science and Application of Positive Psychology
- Harvard Extension School
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training - Zuna Yoga
Experience
Leadership Coach & Program Manager, Starla Sireno Professional Development
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, California Integrative Therapy
Resource Associate at Teen Line
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, School-Based, The Center for Professional Counseling
Marriage & Family Therapist Trainee, The Center for Professional Counseling
Education
Antioch University, Los Angeles - MA, Clinical Psychology
University of California, Berkeley - BA, Media Studies
Associations & Memberships
EMDRIA (EMDR International Association) - Member (2024 - present)
CAMFT (California Association of Family Therapists) - Member (2024 - present)
Yoga Alliance - Member (2023 - present)
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In-Person:
Tues 10-4
Thur 10-4Virtual:
Mon 10-4
Wed 10-4I also offer EMDR Intensives and Couples Therapy Intensives by request. Email info@wellfultherapy.com to learn more.
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Individuals
50-minute session: $275
Couples
50-minute session: $300
Longer sessions will be pro-rated accordingly. Limited sliding scale availability upon request.
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