Individual Psychotherapy
50 minutes sessions in the Mill Valley or San Rafael office. 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 offering a comprehensive and 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 to easily manage forms, payments, and billing, and communicate seamlessly with your therapist.
Beyond the treatment room, outside of treatment exercises promote use of insight and skills in real-life, fostering independent practices to preserve and support ongoing growth.
Individual therapy session ♦ $175 (50-60mins)
Often we find ourselves ready for relationship but aware of past experiences & behavioral habits or patterns that prevent longevity or stability in our intimate connections. Other times, our relationship is moving 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 our anticipated 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 solvable from workable problems. Positively utilize both masculine and feminine aspects of self while also ascertaining your strengths and challenges across the 6 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 ♦$175
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 and partners often feel they have no one to talk it through with to gain insight and perspective. 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 recovery from them!
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 ♦ $300
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 ($300 saving you $150) 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)
Our most popular care package:
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. ♦ $699
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 results in the couple’s therapy. Working individually can truly boost your results in couples as you 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 that you choose an individual therapist with a trained perspective in relationship therapy. As Dr. Mason uses Gottman Couples Therapy in her work with clients, you can be assured that your Gottman
Therapy will not be derailed. Dr. Mason also works with clients who are receiving Safe Conversations therapy/coaching, Mindfulness-
Based Couples Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.
Dr. Mason has also worked in coordination with faith-based pre-marital therapies and Addiction Specialists to support relational changes that may un-complicate the work you are focusing on in another therapy. 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 ♥ $175
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, with life-extending implications to interpersonal relationships, leadership roles, and inter-generational healing.
Sessions precede personalized report which includes:
- session summary
- recommendations for follow-up/next steps
- between session customized exercises/practices
- psychotherapeutic reflections providing historic or current bio-psycho-social context and analytic interpretations
