Psychotherapy for Individuals
50 minutes sessions. We begin by getting to know the problem as you see it, how it effects your life, what you have tried in the past to address this or other challenges, and how life might be more ideally imagined. This leads to a better holistic understanding of the problem, resources, and influences. Goals are collaboratively set, treatment frame and progress identified, all without setting up a dependence for the therapy–you own your progress inside and outside of therapy.
Benefit from a wide breadth of clinical experience to offer our clients a comprehensive, synergistic understanding of the neuro/psycho/social/biological physiological and environmental contexts and influences that can either act to sabotage or support your treatment outcome.
Access services through your client portal. Easily manage forms, payments, and billing, and communicate seamlessly with your therapist.
Practical experiments ease transfer of skills (practiced in session) into real life. Giving real-life homework preserves treatment gains as it supports independent practice and fosters ongoing independent growth.
Individual Therapy Session ♦ $200 (50-60mins)
Supportive Love-life/Dating Coaching. Get clear about your decisions regarding establishing or maintaining healthy relationships. Feel more supported when making these big life decisions.
Often we find ourselves ready for relationship while also aware of past experiences & behavioral habits or patterns that prevent longevity or stability in our intimate connections. Other times, our relationship is progressing to the next level and we are unsure if continuing is in our best interest. Sometimes we know we have the right partner and the relationship is going well, but may be unsure how to best negotiate for anticipated future and current needs/wants in the relationship.
Whether you are dating, preparing to date, or partnered, these sessions help you get to the next level. Sessions are accented by curated take-home exercises and activities.
Identify your partnering model, attachment style, and instinctive value structures. Learn how to set limits and negotiate needs and desires in healthy and constructive ways. Update conflict communication patterns and distinguish workable problems from deal-breakers. Positively utilize both masculine and feminine aspects of self while also ascertaining your strengths and challenges across the SIX roles we play in partnered relationships. Adopt the communication practices of the (Gottman) Relationship Masters. Grow your understanding of, and be able to recognize compatible meta-emotional styles and mismatches.
Individual 50 min. session ♦$275
Whether you’ve detected an affair or have managed to fall into one, knowing what to do next can be excruciating and daunting. This can be one of the loneliest times as partners often feel completely cut off or, as if they have no one to talk it through with to gain insight and perspective without further damaging the relationship.
From the anatomy & chronology of affairs, to the cascade of experiences leading to decreased partner intimacy, negative comparisons of partner to real or imagined other, creating shields to protect us from violations to our vulnerable true selves, all the way into infidelity; we understand affairs and Affair Recovery!
Let us support the outcome you truly desire while protecting you and your partner from pitfalls of affair disclosure, detection, or repair. Partners commonly attempt to shield partners from pain with a variety of misguided although well intended behaviors. During this intense time, we are here to help. Our goal is to prevent & minimize damage and psychological fall-out from very commonly chosen mis-steps.
3-Hour Initial Session ♦ $499
Years of experience has taught us to offer an extended 1st session. Afterwards, therapy continues according to your needs and goals, but we offer this discounted rate knowing how hard it is to take the initial steps to righting one’s world. This extended first session offers a cohesive over dis-jointed and time-pressured experience. Win-win for everyone.
The journey to motherhood/parenthood is littered with life-altering experiences. Some we welcome, while others are confusing, disorienting, or discomforting. When the pain and anxiety reach the point where joy is diminished, it’s important to reach out for the professional support. We have helped many mothers regain their confidence, eagerness, and move into peace.
In the past, many families and communities were better equipped to support this unique rite of passage. Yet today, all too often, reproductive transitions are fraught with disillusionment, alienation, and an abject poverty of helpful and realistic ‘becoming-parents’ models.
Whether you are going solo on your journey or are partnered needing additional support, we deeply understand the intricacies and diversity of experiences shared by a multitude of parents. Our practice supports mothers/new parents to resolve and adapt to the challenges unique to this transition. We know how to help. You are not at all alone, and there is hope, comfort, and a better way through.
Please reach out and we can hand tailor services to meet any need and budget. This is not a luxury; it is a lifeline both for you and for the new life you are creating.
Care is bundled…while you can always sign up for full sessions, care is also available as banked time throughout the weeks/months ahead; so you can use it when you need it most.
100 minutes *5 calls (<20min/call) ♥ $125 ($350 value)
200 minutes *10 calls (<20min/call) ♥ $245 ($700 value)
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300 mins *15 calls (<20min/call) ♥ $350 ($1,050value)
All calls are with Dr. Mason who does everything possible to accept call requests same day or within 24 hours of the request.
Feel free to convert your package to full sessions as needed. The flexibility is yours, you deserve that.
Bundles are the perfect gift for baby showers or sprinkles, Mother’s Day, and pregnancy announcements. We can send you the card in time for your event.
For more information about supportive care for mothers and mothers-to-be, click here
Based on the Bringing Baby Home Workshop, these sessions include a peek into or deeper analysis of the dynamics of your partnership.
The habits, strengths & challenges of your pre-baby world play differently in the post-baby environment. Effectively renegotiate roles & responsibilities with mindful and intentional anticipation of this brave new perspective-shifting dimension.
These sessions better equip your partnership by offering concrete communication and conflict management skills you will come to rely on to increase the responsivity, flexibility, and adaptability needed in the weeks, months, and years to come. Plus we cover all the tough subjects and how to get through together.
A strong partnered relationship is one of the best treasures you may ever offer your children.
3 session Mini-Course ♦$450
5 Session Full Course + Complete Couples Analysis with suggested areas for maximizing strengths and targeting areas for improvement. ♦ $899
These are private sessions with Dr. Mason. Better Treasures also offers group/building community experiences via Workshops.
**Check with your companies EAP plan as Bringing Baby Home is often a covered mental-wellness service.
Dr. Mason works with many individuals whose couple’s therapist has recommended adjunctive support to accelerate couple’s therapy results. Receive laser focus on issues that may be interfering with the progress in your couple’s therapy. Even 1-2 sessions may effectively clear the block, heighten interpersonal awareness, and identify, clarify, and support communication needs for the couple’s therapy.
Because seeing an individual therapist during a couple’s therapy often increases the risk of relationship termination, it is vital to choose an individual therapist with an expertise in relationship therapy.
As Dr. Mason uses the Gottman Method with couples, you can be assured that your Relationship Therapy will not be derailed.
Please reach out so that we may help and save you time and money on a therapy that may have hit a stumbling block, but that otherwise is serving you well.
50-60 min session ♥ $200
Want an expert guide in the next level of your introspective work? Ready to dive deeper into your internal working models and mentalizations? Unafraid to discover, know, and befriend the strengths and challenges of your personality, attachment style, and interpersonal/relational motivations? Get to know and appreciate what your shadow offers while loosening it’s grip upon the reins of your life’s journey.
This very intentional and vulnerable work transcends solution-oriented therapies as it focuses on the meta-processes at work within the personal relationship to/with the self.
Not for everyone, this therapy is perfect for those who have had successful personal therapies in the past and are ready for advanced dialogue with the self. A good fit for karmic adventurers game to see their personal growth shatter limitations. Life-extending implications to interpersonal relationships, leadership roles, and inter-generational healing.
Post-Session Follow up from Dr. Mason includes:
- session summaries
- recommendations for follow-up/next steps
- between session customized exercises/practices
- psychotherapeutic reflections providing historic or current bio-psycho-social context and analytic interpretations
Couples Therapies
This therapy begins with an initial analysis. Traditionally, this would take (3) 90 minute sessions. Quite a few couples choose to use a 1/2 day Marathon which often completes the assessment.
Coalesced data from individual interviews, questionnaires, and couples interview outline strengths and challenges unique to the couple’s dynamic.
Thanks to data-driven treatment planning and a scientifically sound relationship model, couples therapy using the Gottman Method, expeditiously identifies key practices to adopt (to achieve your goals) while meticulously supplanting adaptive behaviors to replace unhelpful behaviors driving partner dissatisfaction.
With a precision treatment plan, thoroughly vetted take-home exercises, and skillfully executed guidance, couples feel confident to continue progress on their own. This therapy is designed to prevent dependence on the therapy/therapist to maintain therapeutic successes.
As nearly 69% (According to 40 years of couples research via the Gottman Institute) of interactions are conflict-producing or conflict-responding, having the right knowledge and skill-base means you navigate expertly for the benefit of the relationship. Clients receive step-wise instruction to develop efficacious conflict communication. Because conflict is a healthy part of every relationship these skill sets are invaluable.
And when conflict goes sideways, which it will, from time-to-time, clients have directions to follow to prevent poisonous resentments from taking hold. Regrettable incidents are properly repaired, leaving you and your partner with hope and renewed closeness.
Many couples complete therapeutic goals and appreciate recommended follow-up care. Dr. Mason will reach out to you at recommended follow-up intervals (usually, 1 month, 6 months, & thereafter annually or bi-annually). In this way, your re-invigorated relationship receives on-going support from your therapist, who knows you and prizes your relationship history, strengths, and challenges.
Learn how to effectively join forces, synergize individual strengths, & marshall resources to orchestrate a successful first 7 years.
Safeguard, shield, & rise above the most common personal and partnered challenges: Sex, money, decision-making, leading/enhancing, leisure, family, safety, household standards, & commitment behaviors. Intentional planning to address unique liabilities & develop resources to address inescapable challenges inherent in every partnership. Yours will just run remarkably smoother!
Single Session Intro with take home DIY ♦$250
3 Session Mini-Course ♦ $500
6 Session Full Course ♦ $900
10 Sessions: Full Course + Individual Sessions &
Couple Specific Dynamic Analysis + discounted rate on future services ♦ $ 1775
The 7 Principles of Making Marriage Work (Gottman Institute’s signature couples program) can always be arranged in a weekly 1 hour format or customized to fit your unique situation.
Contact us for more information.
415-370-4256
From post-affair detection/discovery, to how to disclose an affair, from ending an affair and recommitting to your partner to how to set up a therapeutic separation, these sessions clarify next steps and help you see beyond the fog. This therapy is designed to help you feel more confident about the right thing to do for you and your family.
You’ll be guided through the necessary steps to recovery, healing, and the re-engineering of your relationship. Learn how to affair proof your relationship, prevent the cascade of behaviors that lead to affairs. Clear up the ambiguity. Take comfort in understanding what to expect after the affair with expert support and trustworthy guidance.
Learn the trick to communicating with your partner to reach the truth and set healthy boundaries. Solve perpetual problems and address resentments that if neglected destroy relationships by sabotaging secure attachment and intimacy.
Affair recovery is often arranged as an initial Marathon session with subsequent traditional follow-up sessions as needed. There is a science to relationship recovery after betrayal.
Call to create a package that works for you or take it one session at a time.
A warm welcome to relationship 2.0!
Conveniently massed sessions to save time & money (less than half the cost of traditional couples sessions) with minimized scheduling & travel demands.
Consistently receiving high praise for instrumentally restructuring and fortifying a re-envisioned and re-engineered relationship.
Dr. Mason continues to integrate the Gottman Method in Marathon sessions so couples will receive the full relationship analysis with completion of initial assessment.
Start on a Friday and by Monday your relationship’s trajectory can be reoriented to a much better future!
Approximate Pricing:
4-6 Hour 1/2 Day ♦ $750-950
8-10 Hour Full Day ♦ $1499-1999
Full Weekend ♦ $2550
Call to arrange your package. 415-370-4256
Based on the (Gottman Institute’s) Bringing Baby Home Workshop, these sessions include a peek into, or deeper analysis of the dynamics of your partnership. The habits, strengths & challenges of your pre-baby world play differently in the post-baby environment. Couples who want to grow their relationship versus watching it wither on the vine, take smart steps to protect and preserve their most precious connection–the best legacy to pass on to one’s children is a functional and thriving positive relationship between their parents!!
Effectively renegotiate roles & responsibilities with mindful and intentional anticipation of the requisite changes in the post-baby epoch. Support one another better as you embrace (versus fight) the brave perspective shifts that accompany parenthood. Feel better during the metamorphosis of your significant identity transformation.
These sessions better equip your partnership by offering concrete communication and conflict management skills you will come to rely on to increase the responsiveness, flexibility, and adaptability needed in the weeks, months, and years to come. Plus we cover all the tough subjects and how to get through together. A strong partnered relationship is one of the best treasures you may ever offer your children.
3 session Mini-Course ♦$750
5 Session Full Course + Complete Couples Analysis with suggested areas for maximizing strengths and targeting areas for improvement. ♦ $1650
These are private sessions with Dr. Mason. Better Treasures also offers group/building community experiences via Workshops.
Want to reinvigorate and enliven your partnered sex experience? Dr. Mason guides you through the Gott Sex? program, where you are updated with the sex habits of the Relationship Masters.
You’ll also receive the latest evidence-based therapeutic interventions to reignite passion and end between-the-sheets avoidance.
If you and your partner struggle to create comfort in negotiating a mutually satisfying love life, there is hope. And it is not impossible to create sustainable changes.
It starts with little things, communication is king, and there are so many fun exercises to make approaching this area of your life workable and pleasurable.
Sessions cover:
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- Changing Attitudes About Sex
- Reaching New Altitudes of Satisfaction.
- 3 Skills to a Better Sex Talk
- Updating your Sex Road Maps
- Initiating & Refusing Sex
- Sustaining Quality & Quantity
4-6 sessions ♥ $1250
Parents today have it rough. Less support. Less inherited models of effective, safe, and secure parenting. The greatest contribution to developmental psychology has been the findings in the field of the neurobiology of attachment. These findings, which reflect a confluence of neuroscience, biology, and socio-emotional and behavioral sciences illuminate and substantiate a new path for parenting, devoid of harsh punishments, but not requiring helicopters, manipulation, coercion, or authoritarianism.
While adherence to the science of parenting may be daunting, the truth is that making mistakes is necessary, good, and useful.
Secure attachment is the first goal. It requires rupture, responsiveness, and repair. It is a process all of us can learn. The benefits extend transgenerationally. The world peace-process starts at home, in the sweet moments of love shared in a glance, in arms that don’t flinch no matter what pain is being shared, in shared laughter and dried tears. In togetherness.
For many of us, about 40-60%, it is a process we learn as a gift of love to our children. A gift that extends to our partner, our family, friends, and beyond.