Katharina Sandizell, MA, LMFT
Katharina is a licensed LMFT, Marriage-Family Therapist and Supervisor, specializing in Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT). She graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and has been a therapist for over 25 years. Katharina is certified with the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as an Emotionally Focused Therapist and Supervisor. This means that she has met the rigorous standards required for specialized and advanced certification, earning high recognition for her expertise in working with couples (EFCT) and for her supervision and training of other therapists in their couples’ work. Katharina is also a sex-informed therapist. In addition to couples, Katharina works with families and individuals using the attachment-based approaches of EFCT, EFIT, EFFT, and AEDP on relationships, attachment issues, anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, and affair recovery.
Katharina is the founder and clinical director of Love Frontier Therapy and she is a part of the Deliberate Practice Clinical Supervisory team at Sentio Counseling Center. Until 2018, in addition to running a thriving private practice, Katharina was the director of the Couples Therapy Program at The Community Institute for Psychotherapy (CIP). She has been supervising and teaching other licensed Therapists, Associates, and Trainees for over a decade, as well as training them to become certified Emotionally Focused Couples, Family, and Individual Therapists.
Katharina is a member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (ICEEFT), The Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (NCCEFT), The EFT Center of Los Angeles (EFTCLA), The Community Institute for Psychotherapy (CIP), the AEDP Institute, The San Francisco Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, and The Integrative Sex Therapy Institute (ISTI).
Maya Shemtov MA, AMFT
Paul Taruskin, MA, LMFT
Paul is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, specializing in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy as an advanced EFCT therapist. He graduated from UC Davis and John F. Kennedy University and is an active member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (ICEEFT). As an attachment-based therapist, he works with couples, families, and individuals on a wide range of issues. Paul has been in the field of mental health for over 16 years as a counselor and behavior specialist. He is a member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (ICEEFT), The Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (NCCEFT), and The California Association for Marriage-Family Therapists (CAMFT).
Paul’s approach is active, engaged, and relational. With couples and families, Paul utilizes Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFCT / EFFT). He has supported couples and families to navigate a broad spectrum of challenges, including depression, anxiety, infidelity, addiction, grief, and general relationship distress. His conviction and experience is that the evidence-based Emotionally Focused Therapy is a powerful and transformative approach that can create and maintain safety and connection in relationships.
For individuals, Paul’s approach is centered around his deep belief in our capacity for growth and healing within relationships. He uses Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) along with other somatic and attachment approaches. He is committed to offering an authentic, nurturing, and supportive environment. Paul brings curiosity, acceptance, and humor as a fellow traveler on your journey toward growth. Whether you are feeling stuck, disconnected, depressed, or anxious, Paul promises honesty and authenticity as you explore your inner and outer worlds together.
Einat Klopfer-Cohen MA, AMFT
Katharina Sandizell, MA, LMFT
Katharina is a licensed LMFT, Marriage-Family Therapist and Supervisor, specializing in Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT). She graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and has been a therapist for over 25 years. Katharina is certified with the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as an EFCT and EFIT Therapist and Supervisor. This means that she has met the rigorous standards required for specialized and advanced certification, earning high recognition for her expertise in working with couples (EFCT) and for her supervision and training of other therapists in their couples’ work. Katharina is also a sex-informed therapist. In addition to couples, Katharina works with families and individuals using the attachment-based approaches of EFCT, EFIT, EFFT, and AEDP on relationships, attachment issues, anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, and affair recovery.
Katharina is the founder and clinical director of Love Frontier Therapy and she is a part of the Deliberate Practice Clinical Supervisory team at Sentio Counseling Center. Until 2018, in addition to running a thriving private practice, Katharina was the director of the Couples Therapy Program at The Community Institute for Psychotherapy (CIP). She has been supervising and teaching other licensed Therapists, Associates, and Trainees for over a decade, as well as training them to become certified Emotionally Focused Couples, Family, and Individual Therapists.
Katharina is a member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (ICEEFT), The Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (NCCEFT), The EFT Center of Los Angeles (EFTCLA), The Community Institute for Psychotherapy (CIP), the AEDP Institute, The San Francisco Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, and The Integrative Sex Therapy Institute (ISTI).
Maya is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, holds a Masters degree in Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and another Masters degree from King’s College in London. She has held professional positions at UC Berkeley and Columbia University and is fluent in three languages. Maya works with couples, individuals, and families and specializes in relationships, depression, anxiety, cross-cultural issues, LGBTQ+ issues, and trauma. She is an advanced level Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist. Maya is also certified in Trauma-Informed CBT. She is a member of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and her work is supervised by Katharina Sandizell, LMFT.
With couples and families, Maya uses the attachment-based EFCT and EFFT, with individuals, she incorporates Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), AEDP, CBT, MI, and somatic therapy to help clients move from stuck places and traumatic reactions to adaptive and healing emotional expression.
Maya believes that our ability to navigate relationships is a core aspect of a full and happy life, and that we have the ability to transform our relational patterns and heal. She integrates Emotionally-Focused Therapy with relationship skill-building and communication strategies to help clients in relationships heal challenging patterns, rediscover intimacy, and work preventatively to set up a strong base from which to grow as a couple.
Einat is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and holds a Masters degree in Marriage and Family counseling from Palo Alto University. She specializes in relationships, attachment, and trauma. Einat works with couples, families, and adults. She is an advanced level Emotionally Focused Therapist with a sub-specialty in ADHD in adults and couple dynamics. Einat has advanced EMDR training from the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), and advanced family systems training from The Ackerman Institution for Family Therapy. She is a member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and The EFT Center of Los Angeles (EFTCLA). Her work is supervised by Katharina Sandizell, LMFT .
Einat is passionate about working collaboratively with her clients and creating a therapeutic experience that is meaningful, empowering and transformative. Working from an attachment lens, Einat uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFCT and EFIT), EMDR, AEDP, IFS, and Family Systems.
Her approach helps people to address how they relate to themselves and others while making concrete changes towards connecting and communicating in more positive and healthy ways. By creating deep shifts in relationship dynamics, couples and families can create more resilient, connected, and supportive ways of relating.
Paul Taruskin, MA, LMFT
Paul is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, specializing in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy as an advanced EFCT therapist. He graduated from UC Davis and John F. Kennedy University and is an active member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (ICEEFT). As an attachment-based therapist, he works with couples, families, and individuals on a wide range of issues. Paul has been in the field of mental health for over 16 years as a counselor and behavior specialist. He is a member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (ICEEFT), The Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (NCCEFT), and The California Association for Marriage-Family Therapists (CAMFT).
Paul’s approach is active, engaged, and relational. With couples and families, Paul utilizes Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFCT / EFFT). He has supported couples and families to navigate a broad spectrum of challenges, including depression, anxiety, infidelity, addiction, grief, and general relationship distress. His conviction and experience is that the evidence-based Emotionally Focused Therapy is a powerful and transformative approach that can create and maintain safety and connection in relationships.
For individuals, Paul’s approach is centered around his deep belief in our capacity for growth and healing within relationships. He uses Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) along with other somatic and attachment approaches. He is committed to offering an authentic, nurturing, and supportive environment. Paul brings curiosity, acceptance, and humor as a fellow traveler on your journey toward growth. Whether you are feeling stuck, disconnected, depressed, or anxious, Paul promises honesty and authenticity as you explore your inner and outer worlds together.
Einat Klopfer-Cohen, MA, AMFT
Einat is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and holds a Masters degree in Marriage and Family counseling from Palo Alto University. She specializes in relationships, attachment, and trauma. Einat works with couples, families, and adults. She is an advanced level Emotionally Focused Therapist with a sub-specialty in ADHD in adults and couple dynamics. Einat has advanced EMDR training from the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), and advanced family systems training from The Ackerman Institution for Family Therapy. She is a member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and The EFT Center of Los Angeles (EFTCLA). Her work is supervised by Katharina Sandizell, LMFT.
Einat is passionate about working collaboratively with her clients and creating a therapeutic experience that is meaningful, empowering and transformative. Working from an attachment lens, Einat uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFCT and EFIT), EMDR, AEDP, IFS, and Family Systems.
Her approach helps people to address how they relate to themselves and others while making concrete changes towards connecting and communicating in more positive and healthy ways. By creating deep shifts in relationship dynamics, couples and families can create more resilient, connected, and supportive ways of relating.
Maya Shemtov, MA, AMFT
Maya is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, holds a Masters degree in Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and another Masters degree from King’s College in London. She has held professional positions at UC Berkeley and Columbia University and is fluent in three languages. Maya works with couples, individuals, and families and specializes in relationships, depression, anxiety, cross-cultural issues, LGBTQ+ issues, and trauma. She is an advanced level Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist. Maya is also certified in Trauma-Informed CBT. She is a member of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and her work is supervised by Katharina Sandizell, LMFT.
With couples and families, Maya uses the attachment-based EFCT and EFFT, with individuals, she incorporates Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), AEDP, CBT, MI, and somatic therapy to help clients move from stuck places and traumatic reactions to adaptive and healing emotional expression.
Maya believes that our ability to navigate relationships is a core aspect of a full and happy life, and that we have the ability to transform our relational patterns and heal. She integrates Emotionally-Focused Therapy with relationship skill-building and communication strategies to help clients in relationships heal challenging patterns, rediscover intimacy, and work preventatively to set up a strong base from which to grow as a couple.
Binky Mendoza MA, AMFT
Binky completed her undergraduate studies at the University of the Philippines, and her Masters in Psychology at CIIS in San Francisco. She is an Emotionally-Focused Couples (EFCT) and Individual Therapist (EFIT). She is also an AEDP level 3 practitioner with a sub-specialty in Somatic therapy. Binky is a Level 2 certified practitioner in The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy with the Bader Couples Institute and a Level 1 certified practitioner in Relational Life Therapy (Terry Real). She is also trained in Ketamine Assisted Therapy through Journey Clinical. Binky is an advanced level Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist. She is a member of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and her work is supervised by Katharina Sandizell, LMFT.
Binky works with relationships, attachment, depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction. For severe anxiety and OCD, Binky also uses a combination of exposure therapy and CBT along with attachment and somatic approaches.
Binky uses an integrative approach in her work, drawing from attachment modalities that allow us to understand and integrate challenging attachment patterns, working with the nervous system, trauma, and equally essentially, our strengths and resources.
Complete list of trainings and certifications:
Developmental Model, Level 1 and 2 – Couples Institute Training with Ellyn Bader
Relational Life Therapy (Terry Real), Level 1
Somatic Couples Therapy — Couples Center, Gal Szekely and Liron Cohen
Healing Complex Trauma with IFS – Training with Frank Anderson
Relational Somatic Healing (a modality that includes touch work for healing developmental trauma)
Year long training with Bonnie Badenoch: Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind (relational neuroscience for healing trauma)
AEDP, level 3 practitioner
Positive Neuroplasticity Training and Professional Course with Rick Hanson