Daniela Koenig

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Daniela Koenig

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The reason for seeking psychotherapy are as numerous as the people who seek it. Clients often come to therapy feeling anxious, frustrated, depressed, or hungry for change. Many feel stuck in their life, job, or relationship(s). Others are struggling with life transitions or finding it difficult to live with uncertainty. In my experience, therapy can be a gift you give yourself—a safe place to look at difficult issues.

As a relational therapist I offer you a safe space to explore your relationship to yourself and others so that you can live a more fulfilled life. Through gentle, present, authentic, honest, playful, and loving experience, growth and change can take place. In our sessions together we will go beyond traditional talk therapy to create insights into yourself and the possibility for change. We do this by examining relationship patterns and through your experiencing yourself as a whole person. In psychology, my approach is called somatic, experiential, and attachment-theory-based.

I support clients to:

  • Become aware of old relationship patterns and how they influence current relationships
  • Manage stress and anxiety for a more balanced life
  • Work through depression, feelings of loneliness and emptiness, and a lack of motivation to increase meaning and vitality
  • Feel more connected and have better communication in an intimate relationship
  • Recognize different parts of themselves, integrate parts, and genuinely accept themselves as a whole person
  • Get in touch with feelings and how to express them in an empowered way
  • Discover how habitual thinking and acting can be changed to create more authentic experiences
  • Heal from grief, loss, and childhood abuse

If you have any questions or are curious about therapy, I invite you at your convenience to contact me to find out if my style, personality, presence, and therapy orientation work for you.

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In talking to clients I often hear them share that they don’t like dating because they feel awkward. One client mentioned that it feels like being back in High School. Thinking back of High School I remember worrying about what my date is thinking about how I look, what I say, or what I do – and that was exhausting. Today 15 years later I’m glad I’m not in High School anymore and I’m in relationship with a wonderful man. One of the things I love most about the relationship is who I am. I’m being authentic. It wasn’t always like that.

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The other day I was at my friend’s house while she was trying to feed her two-year, Alexa, a banana. Alexa, looked at the banana for a moment and then said “No”, and went back to her toys. My friend convinced that her daughter should eat a banana tried a few of her tricks. However, no sweet-talking, no promises, not even treats changed Alexa’s “No”. She had made up her mind “No banana” and stuck to it.

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Working with clients I’ve often found them wanting to attract a conscious loving partner or wanting to take their relationship to the next level. After some coaching clients usually can easily formulate what they want in a partner and how they want their relationship to be. However, when I ask clients how they want their relationship with themselves to be I often see them go blank. Regardless if you are currently in relationship or single, the foundation for an authentic loving relationship with a partner is the relationship you have with yourself.

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Contacting Daniela Koenig

The Marina Counseling Center

2137 Lombard Street

San Francisco, CA 94123

(415)255-2551

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Daniela co-fascilitates "Skills for Consious Living & Loving" Workshops" with fellow Hendricks Instutitue staff coach Cliff Haggerty in the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Cruz, CA.