a holistic approach to counseling couples, families, and Individuals

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​We help others create thriving relationships, joyful families, and personal wellbeing.

 We are a small group of therapists that provide couple, family, and individual therapy. Together, we specialize in relationships, parenthood, and integrative mental health. We offer video therapy for clients all over the State of California and in-person sessions at our office in Cardiff, a coastal town in Northern San Diego. If you are a new client, click the Request Appointment button below to schedule a free 15 minute consultation with a therapist to get started.
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Counseling services

Couple Therapy

We offer couples therapy for couples wanting to improve communication, enhance connection, and revitalize intimacy. We also support couples with navigating family relationships. 

Family Therapy

We offer family therapy for parents and children with a focus on creating connected parent-child relationships, healthy communication, and enhancing responsiveness.

Individual Therapy

We offer individual therapy for adults wanting support with relationships, parenting, family, life transitions, loss, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and overall wellness.

Specialties

couples

We guide couples to strengthen communication and connection.

We facilitate healing, forgiveness, emotional safety, and depth.

We assist couples to revitalize sexual intimacy and chemistry.

Relationships

We welcome individuals to attend relationship therapy on their own.

We support individuals through loss and ending relationships.

We assist singles with developing healthy relationship skills.

Premarital couples

We teach couples how to create a strong and lasting foundation.

We empower couples to learn skills and tools that instill resilience.

We facilitate honest and caring conversations while enhancing trust.

Parents

We offer counseling during and beyond the perinatal period.

We teach the cultivation of secure attachment throughout the lifespan.

We guide parents to connect with themselves and their children.​

Families

We help others strengthen and improve family relationships.

We guide families to develop healthy communication and responsiveness.

We support families concerned with mental health and recovery.

Adults

We offer an integrative approach to treating anxiety and depression.

We support the development of healthy lifestyles and habit change.

​We facilitate healing for those with painful or traumatic histories.

About Us

We are relationship specialists with varying areas of focus and experience. You will find us to be authentic, down-to-earth, and compassionately direct. We would be honored to work with you.

klara placek 

Klara is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that specializes in helping individuals and couples to improve romantic relationships. She also provides psychotherapy for adults navigating life transitions and loss through an attachment and Emotionally Focused Therapy lens.

James hanson

James is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that guides others to enhance communication and emotional connection within relationships. He also provides counseling for adults and families wanting support with depression, anxiety, substance use and recovery.

Cristina Trette

Cristina is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that is passionate about guiding distressed couples to restore relationships. She also helps parents strengthen relationships with their children while staying connected to themselves. She is certified in perinatal mental health. 

Our Approach

We are passionate about the art and science of relational and personal wellbeing. We blend Emotionally Focused Therapy, an empirically validated approach to relationship and personal growth, with integrative healing practices. We appreciate getting to know our clients, hearing their stories, and guiding them to a space of deeper connection and personal fulfillment. We delight in our work and aim to model a balance of work, love, family, and play. 
EFFECTIVE  We are trained in and utilize empirically validated therapy models   
INCLUSIVE  All races, genders, and sexual orientations are invited and welcome     
INTEGRATIVE  We tend to the whole person and aim to integrate mind/body/heart      
GROWTH-ORIENTED  We draw out strengths, resilience, and self-agency
HUMANISTIC  We bring our authentic self to the therapeutic relationship
TRANSFORMATIVE  We are inherently driven to learn, evolve, and actualize 
TRAUMA-INFORMED  We aim to cultivate safety, healing, and empowerment 
RESPONSIVE  We are accessible, empathic, warm, engaging, and present   
NON-PATHOLOGIZING  We seek to uncover and understand what drives symptoms 
CONNECTION-BASED  The heart of our approach is based on creating secure bonds
RELATIONAL  Healing happens through connection, relationships, and community

The latest On Our Blog

Developing a growth mindset in love

Relationships  //  January 2021

​​I have come to know that every single one of us will struggle on and off throughout life. Two steps forward, one step back, seems to be a common experience for all. After a big setback, some crumble, and never find their way forward again. While others are able to use the struggle itself to propel ahead. What makes the difference between those who fall apart and stay there, and those who get back up and move forward with grace?

Am I expecting Too much from my partner?

relationships  // July 2021

Modern couples want relationships that thrive. We want intellectual stimulation, depth, fulfilling sex, connection, romance, good times, and a happy family life. Is it wrong to want all of this? No. Who doesn't want a great life? Can unrealistic or high expectations create a lot of misery for us? Absolutely. 

ABOUT Our founder

Hello there, I am Cristina Trette! My purpose is to bring healing conversations and connecting experiences to as many people as possible. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Mother, and the Founder of Integrative Family Therapy. Welcome!

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