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Marina Benkhina, MFT, brings a lively, cheerful energy to every aspect of her life, including work with clients. She works with adults, couples, and families, and particularly enjoys helping people through major life transitions, like marriage, divorce, first-time parenthood, immigration, and college graduation. She also leads groups and provides parenting consultations and classes. With Marina’s help, you can build the tools that will allow you to overcome challenge and move forward in life with confidence, breaking the patterns of dysfunction that have been holding you back. Marina uses a multitude of theoretical perspectives in her work, depending on client’s needs. She believes the most important determinant for successful therapy is the relationship you develop with your therapist. Marina provides counseling in both English and Russian. For more information, call 408/504-0449 or visit http://www.marinathetherapist.com.

Treacy Eller, MFT. I have been faced with plenty of life’s challenging experiences and grown from facing and overcoming them. I have a love for insight, connecting with people on a deep emotional level and witnessing growth and change. I have been practicing psychotherapy for twenty years working with issues of Domestic Violence, with both victims and perpetrators. I enjoy children, adolescents, couples and working individually with adults. I have worked on elementary, middle school, and high school campuses; a correctional facility working with female inmates, nonprofit counseling agencies, The Children’s Shelter and in private practice. I have a B.A. Degree in Social Science with an emphasis in Child Development and a M.A. Degree in Counseling Psychology. For more information call (408) 647-4387 or visit https://www.treacyeller.com

Elizabeth Essner, LCSW, honors and respects the courage it takes to seek help. She provides a supportive and non-judgemental environment in which you can safely explore your feelings, thoughts, and emotions. She will support you with issues related to depression, anxiety, grief, loss, substance use, struggles with relationships, and if you are going through a crisis. Elizabeth can help you overcome obstacles in your life as well as find more meaning in your life. Her goal is to help you feel empowered to create your best life, however that looks for you. She believes in a strengths-based, client-centered approach to counseling and values creating a partnership with you to help achieve your goals. Elizabeth provides individual counseling to adults and adolescents. For more information call 408-508-4055 or visit https://www.elizabethessnerlcsw.com.

Marion Noble, MFT, enjoys working with individuals, couples and families to improve relationships, as well as deal with issues such as depression, anxiety, life transitions, marital and family difficulties, grief and loss, spiritual and emotional growth, and developing a better sense of self. Using a range of therapy approaches, Marion’s goal is to help you become more empowered and equipped to resolve your problems in ways most effective for your healing and growth, leading to a broadened perspective and understanding of yourself and your issue(s). In addition to private practice, Marion teaches communication skills and trains facilitators in the “Listening for Heaven’s Sake” workshops. For more information, call 408/390-3679 or email Marion at msnoble@mac.com.

Larissa Pasut, MFT, works with older teens and adults. Her area of focus is people who have experienced childhood adversity or trauma who are tired of struggling to live day to day and ready to make a change in their lives, including people with dissociative disorders including dissociative identities. She believes in your innate wisdom and healing potential and will use a combination of parts work, DBT, expressive arts, and somatic therapies including EMDR to help you live the life you deserve. Larissa is a Third Culture Kid and understands the unique challenges of having grown up among cultures. For more information call (408) 337-2889 or visit https://www.larissapasut.com

Shelly Sarkisian, MFT, believes that therapy is a gift to yourself, showing your strength of character and courage. Through awareness, and compassionate attunement, lives are changed and relationships healed. Shelly utilizes “Brainspotting” with children, adults, couples and families to work through their traumas, small and big. “Where we look affects how we feel.” It is my passion to enlighten clients towards profound emotional healing. Shelly has been trained in working with survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. She enjoys working with families and adoption, multicultural issues and immigration. She is fluent in spoken Japanese. Shelly is married 38 years, has two grown daughters and three grandsons. For more information, call (408) 550-7967.

Russell Wilkie, MFT, (he/him) specializes in helping marginalized groups with their unique challenges. He is committed to helping relationships improve by ensuring communication patterns are working well before diving into the deeper, core issues that create them (Marshall Rosenberg’s Compassionate Communication is a start). He has over 30 years experience working with substance abuse, codependency, ACA issues, humanistic-existential psychotherapy, LGBTQIA+ issues and Sex Therapy. For reducing trauma/PTSD and to help reduce emotional reactivity, he has a special interest in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). For more information call (408) 529-1975 or visit http://www.russellwilkie.com.