I find fulfillment in the trust clients place in me when sharing their most sensitive stories. Navigating my own low points and struggles has allowed me to experience the healing power of therapy.
I view the challenges and hardships I’ve faced and overcome as contributors to my personal growth and as assets in supporting my clients. Exploring the real, authentic you is what gives me a sense of vitality and gratitude for this meaningful career.
My years of training and personal growth can support you to strengthen your relationships and love yourself without hesitation.
At my core I am a caregiver – which is both my greatest strength and weakness. As the fourth of five children, I learned to care for others to earn love and appreciation in my family. I became an expert at reading people and providing support. These skills still serve me as a therapist but they come with challenges.
I had to learn not to lose myself and to practice self-compassion, recognizing that my needs are also significant. My personal growth informs my work in assisting you to recognize your self-worth, establish boundaries and cultivate loving relationships.
Throughout my life painting, drawing, and writing have been powerful tools for my personal healing. With a bachelor’s degree in visual art, I dedicated 15 years to working with children and art in non-profits, empowering them to use creativity for expression and healing. This remains a valuable resource not just for me but also for my clients as we navigate the path of growth and healing together.
The arts hold a mysterious power to heal.
I intuitively understood the transformative power the arts held to shift thinking and support personal growth. But it wasn’t until I began working one-on-one with clients that I witnessed how art could support challenging conversations and provide a safe space for exploring difficult and shameful experiences. Art is one of many tools I use to help you thrive and undergo transformation.
I know what it’s like to struggle in a relationship and need help moving through a conversation that seems to be on repeat. Through training and life experience I’ve learned the truth – no relationship is easy and we all need support sometimes.
I’m here to support you to listen deeply to yourself and to navigate any relationship conflict
The most rewarding thing is witnessing the real-time shift in a couple’s dynamic during our sessions. I would never sit back and watch you have the same old arguments. Instead, I guide and support you to stay regulated and navigate through conflicts effectively.
As a Bay Area native, I dedicated 15 years to working in non-profits focusing on children and art. In 2009, I began a master’s in Counseling Psychology with a focus in Art Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
For post graduate training I focused on addressing diverse issues, including trauma, abuse, and complex family dynamics, especially with Spanish-speaking children and families at Family Paths.
I became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in 2015 and delved into specializing in work with adults and couples.
In recent years, I’ve specialized in working with both monogamous and non-monogamous relationships, given how common a non-traditional relationship structure is in the Bay Area. I am passionate about working with couples and diverse relationship dynamics, including polyamorous, non-monogamous, and open relationships.
Over the past three years, my focus has been on addressing sex, relationships, and intimacy issues, and I am working towards becoming an AASECT-certified sex therapist in 2024.
It’s important to bring humility and accountability to my role as a therapist in sharing my intersections of privilege and marginalization. Beyond being a therapist I identify as a cis-gendered, heterosexual, white woman, mother, wife and daughter.
I was raised in a working class family and love vegetarian tacos, painting and spending time with friends. I speak fluent Spanish and serve native Spanish speaking families at an Oakland based agency. All of these aspects of my identity have shaped my understanding of the world. I am dedicated to equity in my relationships and fighting for it systematically.
I love working with adults from various backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, ages, sexual orientations and gender identities.
Continuously engaging with a diverse clientele keeps my mind open to new learning, prompting ongoing training and experiences to maintain an open perspective, free from rigid preconceptions. I actively immerse myself in the latest research, pursue advanced courses, and attend highly specialized trainings to stay at the forefront of my field.
It used to be so easy to connect without other priorities getting in the way. When work, chores, and child responsibilities take all of your energy, it becomes difficult to remember what you used to do for fun together.
My education is vast and I weave together effective interventions for adults and couples. With individuals I utilize somatic and art therapy interventions to cast a different light on problems that may feel repetitive and ingrained. With partners I utilize interventions from many brilliant voices in the field.
I use interventions that actually work to get you unstuck and reconnected and gave studied these therapeutic modalities extensively:
Drawing from my own struggles and growth after trauma, I empathize with those who find it challenging to be seen and express vulnerability. I bring my personal growth and years of training to support you in your darkest moments. I’m committed to staying informed and up to date on effective interventions by reading psychology related books, listening to podcasts and attending trainings.
I provide an innovative approach to best address your unique needs.
I synthesize a variety of highly effective therapy modalities such as mindfulness, neuroscience, somatic and art therapy. This can help you to explore unconscious tendencies and define your authentic needs. Loving yourself and staying in a difficult conversation is possible with the right tools.
Therapy with me is a safe and confidential space where you can talk about anything. I often hear, ‘I’ve never talked about this before’. I’m honored to be given the opportunity to hold the things you weren’t sure it was safe to share. Training in Couples and Sex Therapy as well as Art and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy has given me a multitude of tools to support clients with.
My style is unique.
My primary modalities, PACT and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, focus on attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, and arousal regulation.
PACT supports couples in developing a secure functioning relationship. The model builds upon the understanding that our first relationships in life, those with our primary caregivers, create the blueprint for all the relationships that follow.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy helps you become aware of how you’ve held stress and trauma in your body facilitating healing and transformation.
1521 Shattuck Ave #201
Berkeley, Ca 94709
Land of the Muwekma Ohlone
MISSION
To help you feel less alone, more self-compassion and genuine connection in your relationships.
COMMITMENT
I am passionate about the environment and in an effort to combat climate change a portion of every session will be donated to Rainforest Trust to support this beautiful planet we live on.
VALUES
My practice is inclusive of all sexual, relationship, and gender expressions and identities.
If you need a lower fee, I have two options:
I do not accept insurance directly and am considered an out-of-network provider for insurance companies. Some insurance companies will provide coverage for out-of-network providers, usually at a 40-80% rate.
I can provide you with a superbill to be reimbursed by your insurance.
Use Nirvana’s Benefit Calculator to determine your reimbursement rates. https://calculator.meetnirvana.com/
Yes.
I offer in person sessions at my office in Berkeley and online therapy via HIPPA compliant Zoom platform.
Sessions are held weekly or every other week and are 50 minutes in length. I meet weekly with new clients. Some clients reach a point where they see improvement and would like to meet every other week so I am open to discussing this and come up with a mutual decision about when this might be helpful.
I don’t meet with new clients every other week because it’s essential to build a relationship for me to offer the most effective support.
Copyright Rose Schweig, MA, MFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 87269
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I specialize in working with female-identified individuals who are struggling with anxiety, depression, and trauma. Through somatic therapy and parts work, I provide a safe and compassionate space for you to reconnect with your body and explore the different parts of yourself.
Trauma is stored in the body, and somatic therapy helps release these stored experiences, restoring sensation and full feeling to areas that may have been numb or shut down for years.
Parts work enables us to reconnect with parts of ourselves we may have run from or buried in order to survive. Together, we will deepen your understanding of yourself and get to the root of what’s keeping you stuck, enabling you to feel more fully alive and embody your most authentic self.
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