Vanessa Vertin, PhD

Dr. Vanessa Vertin is the head of Revolutionary Love, a psychotherapy company focused on modern-day relationships. The mission of the company is to promote the acceptance of all relationship forms, to therapeutically help every relationship thrive through revolutionizing how people think about relationships and how they function within them. Vanessa is well-known as a therapist dedicated to helping people create fulfilling, exciting and ever-evolving relationship lives. She is committed to modernizing the institution of marriage and supporting the creative development of other forms of lasting relationships outside of the institution.

Vanessa's main specializations are holistic health/integrated psychotherapy, coupling and family relationships, mood disorders, developmental transitions and trauma/abuse. Dr.Vertin also has extensive training and therapeutic experience with freedom/intimacy dynamics, marriage, other relationship forms, survivors of abuse, perpetrators/domestic violence, issues of elders and their families (i.e. caregiver exhaustion), aging and loss, PTSD, trauma, and mood issues related to physiological health. She has been an esteemed west coast practitioner of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy, a mind/body focused/meditivative form of therapy, since 1994 and is a certified EMDR therapist. EMDR is a cutting/edge therapy for trauma + loss (among other issues) and is honored for its ability to resolve difficult subconscious issues very quickly while providing relief from psychological pain.

Dr. Vertin received her Masters from the University of San Diego, where she specialized in gender dynamics and coupling relationships, and her Ph.D in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco with specializations in holistic health and relationships. She has worked extensively with couples of all sexual preferences and combinations. Vanessa has maintained a thriving private practice in San Francisco since 1996.  She has been the psychotherapist at CLEAR Center of Health since 2004 and began consulting at Balance Restored Acupuncture clinic in Mill valley in 2008. She is currently taking clients at all locations.

Please call 415-807-9063 to schedule an appointment.