Counseling & Mindfulness

Juanita de Sanz, MS, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist, a certified EMDR therapist/consultant and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher. She is not accepting clients at this time.

She uses psychotherapeutic and mindfulness approaches to help individuals, couples and families adjust to the changes that life brings. For ten years, from 2007-2018, she worked at California Pacific Medical Center/Sutter Pacific as an integrative psychotherapist. Since 2018 she has been in private practice with offices in San Francisco and Marin, and since Covid, she has offers video and phone sessions. She also supervises and trains other psychotherapists in EMDR & Flash and offers general consultation to psychotherapists as well. She has taught mindfulness at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and at Sutter Health’s The Institute for Health & Healing.

Juanita is not accepting new clients

Text or call Juanita at (415) 870-3405

“I cannot say enough about Juanita. The tools she has given me have not only changed so much in my life, but I even see positive effects for my family. I have had insights that I never expected, my stress level is down, and I recover from stress quicker. I have better balance in my life.”

— Patty

“Juanita gave me a new way of handling stress and wanting to live in the present”

— Tim

“Helped me a lot. Still growing, but I feel hopeful that I will have more control...”

— Adelita

“Juanita is a calm, wise, and compassionate presence.”

— Ymke

“… definitely a game changer. I was so desperate, seeking the right help before and this was a fantastic alternative to taking medicine for anxiety/depression/existential thoughts.”

— Jane

What kinds of psychotherapy does Juanita provide

Integrative PsychoTherapy

Juanita helps others to adjust to the changes that life brings using a blend of psychotherapeutic mind/body approaches including guided imagery, EFT, cognitive behavior therapy, mindfulness, expressive arts, medical imagery, mind/body therapies for chronic pain and EMDR. Mind-Body therapies work to activate innate resources that are used to restore balance and health. Juanita has worked with individuals, families and couples for over 24 years. For 10 years, she worked as an Integrative Psychotherapist at The Institute for Health & Healing, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, helping patients with anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic illness, pain and the emotions that accompany illness and life transitions.

EMDR for trauma work

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy, people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. Juanita is an EMDRIA approved EMDR Consultant and Flash-Trained. She also offers training and consultation to psychotherapists seeking EMDR certification.