Bay Area Open Minds

San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapists and psychotherapy students who affirm that sexual, relational and gender diversity are natural expressions of the human experience.

Aliss Wang

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Prelicensed
First name
Aliss
Last name
Wang
Agency/Organization of Work
Bay Area Gestalt Institute
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Accepting new clients?
Not accepting new clients; waitlist is open
Biographical Info
I see individuals and couples who are coping with anxiety, chaos, overwhelm, depression, loss, grief, trauma, relationship sex and intimacy challenges. I hold a gentle pace for difficult emotions, shadows, unexpressed thoughts, desires, and needs to be explored with kindness, acceptance, and when needed, challenge in the interest of the client's therapy goals.

Clients have come to me from technology, healthcare, academia, entertainment, arts, and alternative industries. I help clients through life transitions and integrations, be it personal growth through adversity, (re)claiming one's identity, (re)defining one's life path after a life altering event, bereavement, altered state or out of ordinary integrations, realignment of a purposeful career change, or a desire to explore vulnerability, authenticity, and establishing more meaningful bonds in relationships.

Through the process of curious exploration, in the here and now, I help clients clarify, bring awareness to their inner wisdom, heal wounds, and be able to move through life with more ease, joy, and confidence as their authentic self.

I hold a M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and a B.A. in Liberal Studies, with concentrations in English and Business Administration from University of California, Riverside. I work through a Gestalt, Humanistic, Transpersonal, Harm Reduction lens. After completing an Associateship and Practicum at Church Street Integral Counseling Center in San Francisco, I have been a member of Bay Area Gestalt Institute, and The Couples Center as an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. I am a Group Facilitator for Integrative Psychiatry Institute's Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training program. I am also a Study Therapist of UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences Translational Psychedelic Research Program.
Professional Designation (Prelicensed)
  • Registered Associate MFT
Professional Website
www.alisswangtherapy.com
Offers Medication Evaluation and Management
No
Location of Practice
  • Telehealth in CA
Gender Identity
  • Cisgender female
Pronouns
She/They
Areas of Practice
  • ADD/ADHD
  • Anxiety/Panic
  • BDSM/Kink
  • Bi/Multicultural Experience
  • Couples/Relationship Counseling
  • Creativity
  • Depression
  • Fertility
  • Fetishism
  • Grief & Loss
  • Immigration/Acculturation
  • Integration of Expanded States of Consciousness
  • Intercultural Relationships
  • Neurodiversity
  • Polyamory & Alt Relationship Configurations
  • Questioning/Exploring Orientation
  • Race/Ethnicity & Culture
  • Sex Work
  • Spirituality
  • Substance Use or Abuse/Addiction
  • Tantra/Sacred Sexuality
  • Trauma/PTSD
  • Women's Concerns
Modalities
  • Coaching
  • Existential-Humanistic
  • Gestalt
  • Group Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Mindfulness Based
  • Narrative
  • Somatic Psychotherapy
  • Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Race or Ethnicity
  • Chinese/Chinese American
Languages Spoken
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • English
Registration Number
120954
Office Address: City
San Francisco
Office Address: State
California
Office Address: Zip Code
94131
Supervisor's Full Name
Gieve Patel
Supervisor's CA License Number
LMFT 47196
Second Office Address
Arcadia, CA 91007
 

Expanded profile fields (for Directory members only)

Gender Diversity/Transgender Care Knowledge Level
Mindful
LGBTQIA Knowledge Level
Mindful
Kink/BDSM Knowledge Level
Informed
Polyamory/Consensual Non-Monogamy Knowledge Level
Mindful
Sex Work(er) Knowledge Level
Informed

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