Therapy in
San Francisco, CA
Every person and every relationship carries a story.
At Stories We Tell Therapy, Courtney Quattrini, LMFT, offers in-person therapy in San Francisco for couples, individuals, and teens who are ready to better understand the patterns shaping their relationships, identity, and emotional lives.
Whether you are feeling stuck in the same conversations, navigating a major life transition, supporting your teen through a difficult season, or trying to reconnect with yourself, this work offers space to slow down, listen inward, and begin creating a different way forward.
Support Rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco can be a place of growth, ambition, transition, reinvention, and constant movement.
For many people, life here can look full from the outside while feeling more complicated underneath. You may be managing relationships, work, family responsibilities, parenting, identity shifts, emotional stress, or the quiet sense that something in your story is asking for more attention.
Courtney offers a warm, thoughtful space to better understand what is happening beneath the surface.
The process is collaborative and relational. It is not about becoming someone entirely new. It is about understanding the patterns, relationships, and experiences that have shaped you, so you can begin relating to yourself and others with more clarity, compassion, and choice.
Ways to Work Together
Stories We Tell Therapy works with couples, individuals, and teens in San Francisco who are ready to better understand their stories, strengthen connection, and move through change with more support.
Couples Therapy
For couples who feel stuck in the same conversations, disconnected from each other, or unsure how to move forward.
You may love each other deeply and still feel caught in a pattern neither of you wants to keep repeating. One partner may push harder to be understood while the other shuts down. Both of you may be trying, but somehow the conversation still ends with hurt, frustration, or distance.
The work creates space to slow the pattern down, listen for the conversation beneath the conversation, and find new ways to communicate, repair, and reconnect.
Relationships, Identity & Life Transitions
For individuals navigating relationship patterns, self-doubt, anxiety, shame, major life transitions, or deeper questions about who they are becoming.
Sometimes the story you have been living was once necessary. It may have helped you stay safe, keep the peace, care for others, or get through a difficult season of life. But over time, the same patterns that once protected you can begin to feel limiting.
This work helps you understand the stories and protective patterns that have shaped you, while building more self-trust, clarity, and a more honest relationship with yourself.
Support for Teens
For teens who may be carrying more than they know how to say.
Big feelings, school stress, friendships, family changes, identity, pressure, anxiety, and the constant noise of the world can be hard to sort through, especially when teens do not always have the words for what is happening inside.
Sessions give teens space to feel understood, build language for what they are experiencing, and begin finding steadier ways to move through stress, emotions, relationships, and change
A Thoughtful, Relational Approach
Courtney’s approach is grounded in trust, awareness, and action.
Trust creates the space to feel seen and understood. Awareness helps you begin noticing the patterns, roles, beliefs, and protective strategies that may be shaping your relationships and inner world. Action is where new ways of communicating, connecting, setting boundaries, and moving through life begin to take shape.
Sessions are warm, collaborative, and tailored to the person, couple, or teen in the room.
Depending on your needs, the work may draw from attachment-based therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Internal Family Systems, somatic awareness, psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, and other relational approaches.
The goal is not to reduce your story to a symptom checklist.
The goal is to help you feel more seen, more connected to yourself and others, and more able to move through your life with clarity, compassion, and choice.
In-Person Sessions in
San Francisco and Online Across California
Stories We Tell Therapy offers in-person sessions in San Francisco and online support for clients throughout California.
For clients in the Bay Area, meeting in person can provide a steady place to slow down, step away from the pace of daily life, and focus on what needs care and attention.
For clients elsewhere in California, online sessions offer a flexible way to receive support from a familiar, private space.
Whether you meet in person or online, the process begins the same way: by understanding what brings you here, what has been feeling difficult, and what you are hoping will feel different.
Getting Started in
San Francisco
Starting can feel like a big step, especially if you are not sure exactly what you need yet.
You do not have to arrive with everything figured out.
The first step is a consultation. This gives you space to talk through what is bringing you in, what kind of support you are looking for, and whether working with Courtney feels like the right fit.
From there, sessions are shaped around your needs, goals, and story.
Ready to Begin a New Chapter?
If you are looking for support in San Francisco for your relationship, your teen, or your own growth and healing, this can be a place to slow down and better understand what is asking for your attention.
A different way forward can begin with one conversation.