Kaela Salisbury(She/Her/Hers)

Kaela Salisbury is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in San Francisco, California and works with couples and other relationship types. Many of her clients come to therapy feeling unfulfilled in their important relationships and hoping there could be more connection and intimacy possible for them. Kaela is particularly skilled in helping clients stretch their capacity to be honest about where they are getting stuck and find the courage to try something new. She helps her clients slow down and tend to the vulnerable places within themselves that struggle to change by offering tangible tools as well as deeper layers of exploration.

Kaela’s approach is rooted in the methods of Hakomi and Transformational Couples Therapy, which use mindfulness and somatic exploration to move beyond a cognitive understanding and into an embodied, felt experience of change. Kaela also draws on Relational Life Therapy, a transformational and effective couples therapy method developed by Terry Real that is direct, compassionate and tailored to each unique relationship. Other modalities she incorporates into her work include Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), PACT, PET-C, and The Gottman Method.

Kaela is deeply passionate about this work and believes in the possibility for transformation in relationships. She wants her clients to see real change in their lives towards more fulfilling, honest and connected relationships. She works hard to help her clients achieve a new vision in their relationships and asks her clients to work hard too.

In Kaela’s experience, couples and relationship therapy is most effective when done in-person and she prefers to see clients at her office in San Francisco. She offers virtual therapy on a case by case basis.