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Hi .. I’m Steve Barney and I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I have an office in San Mateo, California. Please browse my website and send me an email with any questions that you may have.

Scheduling: If you’d like to inquire about my open spots, it’s best to email me with your availability and I’ll get back to you about my openings.

Specializations: Although I have a general practice, I do specialize in

  • anxiety
  • trauma and
  • addiction.

In treating anxiety, I use various directive and non-directive interventions such as mindfulness techniques, resource tapping, modified parts-therapy and others.

Treating the various types of trauma brings additional techniques to be able to help the client become safe for self in order to begin to believe their own story in a healthy way. CSA or child sexual abuse survivors need to be patient and loving to self as the anger finds ways to become healthy. In order to treat the trauma, I use Attachment-Focused EMDR, IFS and Ego-state techniques.

Betrayal trauma is a specific type of trauma and as a Certified Partner Trauma Therapist (CPTT), I also work with partners of sex addicts, who are uniquely traumatized in discovery of the behaviors of their spouse or significant other.

Addiction can be both a crisis and ongoing. I regularly work with process and substance addictions. As a CMAT (Certified Multiple Addictions Therapist), I work with people stuck in many addictions and habits, I use Twelve-Step principles and therapeutic interventions to begin settle the chaos into some order.

I regularly work with people around around pornography and sexual addiction. I am a CSAT, which is a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist, trained by Patrick Carnes, the leading researcher in sex addiction treatment.

In my general practice – I help people with many issues.

  • general relational issues and difficulties
  • self esteem and depression
  • premarital counseling and marital therapy
  • stress and burnout
  • grief and loss issues
  • ADHD screening and coaching
  • anger and emotions management
  • disordered eating
  • compulsive work, shopping, spending, and gambling
  • career and life transitions