Pia Byron MA, MS, AMFT

Moving from the East coast to California in my 30s, I made some big changes, down a new path, which I continue on today. 

My curiosity as a therapist is informed by my own evolution and an exploration of humanity. 

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I earned my M.A.in Counseling Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies.

I began at The Center for Somatic Psychotherapy and then The Marina Counseling Center in San Francisco.

My practice is now based with The Center for Mindful Psychotherapy.

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I've also counseled children and families within several organizations — including Mill Valley Middle School, 

San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, Seeds of Awareness Nature-Based Social Skills Education, and Glide Family Services.

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My personal and professional growth is informed by Stanley Keleman's Formative Psychology™.

Based on my own experience, I believe in the potency of physical-emotional self-knowing and bodily integration.

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Another foundation is Relational Life Therapy™, Terry Real's model of relational skills.

At its heart, it's about the unique realm of couplehood:

we must learn to distinguish and adjust our own individualistic beliefs, learned history, and actions,

and grow personal accountability to benefit one another and the relationship.