WELCOME
Welcome to the psychotherapy practice of Govinda Bader, M.A., MFT. I practice Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) in San Francisco and Berkeley. I offer sessions exclusively over Zoom videoconference for clients located in California.
Living a human life is complex. The one constant that spans all facets of your life is your relationship to yourself. Whether you are struggling in your relationship to your partner, your career, your friends, your parents, your children, your sex life, your finances or anything else, your relationship with yourself is the one place in your life that you can shift that will impact everything else.
Healing happens through building internal relationships. What is your relationship to your anxiety, your sadness, your anger, your shame, your depression? Most of us resist these feelings when they arise and this is big piece of what keeps us stuck. My approach will help you befriend and see the goodness in all parts of yourself and bring care and connection to parts of you that feel stuck, scared or wounded. When you learn how to welcome all aspects of your experience with curiosity and compassion, your life will change and you will have access to your deepest internal resources.
I bring a warm, direct and light-hearted presence to my work and am effective at working with:
anxiety
depression
grief
trauma
self-esteem
relationships
self-criticism
shame
anger
boundaries
career changes
stress
mid-life transitions
finding your passion
creativity
In addition to being a psychotherapist, I also have specialized training as a career coach and love helping people get unstuck from unsatisfying careers and get clear about a more satisfying path forward.