Hello, I’m Jules.

I offer in-person, individual and couples therapy at SFWT’s Fillmore Street Office in Pacific Heights.

I’m passionate about producing safe spaces where folks can step outside of their everyday experience and get back in touch with forgotten or unknown parts of themselves.

I believe that if blocked parts of us remain unexpressed, we can become frozen, or overwhelmed by our feelings, and sometimes develop addictive or unhealthy behaviors, or patterns that impact our lives in harmful ways. Sometimes we just need a space to share and unpack an issue and look at it from a different perspective.

I am originally from the UK; I worked and travelled in many different cultures and settings, before settling in the Bay Area in 12 years ago. I have been active in various art-based projects and healing modalities since moving here. I draw on these approaches and experiences in my work. I believe that everyone expresses themselves in a unique way and I work with people to rediscover and clarify what is true for them, and how they choose to express this in the world.

Together, we will co-create ways to access your strengths and empower you to move towards what is real for you.

Jules Osborne, MFT

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #103692

[email protected]

415 685-4545

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THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES

I work with individuals and couples to identify areas of their lives where they feel emotionally blocked. I use talk therapy, as well as the arts and action-oriented approaches, to support you in finding your own unique way to express yourself and create movement in the areas where you are stuck.

I cultivate a safe space where you can be deeply listened to and received without judgment. I will support and work with you to access your strengths, and utilize these as resources to manage and make meaning of your struggles. I actively work through a social justice lens – holding your unique life experiences with respect, curiosity and compassion, and being mindful to practice from a stance of cultural humility.

My specialties Include: Addiction, Substance Use, Anxiety, Depression, Behavioral Issues, Codependency, Coping skills, Grief, Life Transitions, Peer relationships,
Intimate Partner relationships, Self Esteem, Stress, Suicidal Ideation, Trauma / PTSD

Here are a few specific modalities that inform my approach.

Person-Centered

You are the expert of your experience. As your therapist, I provide a space where you can be received with empathy, authenticity and unconditional regard, allowing for you unpack and let go outmoded patterns and ways of being through positive and reparative experiences in the therapeutic relationship.

Strength-based

Focuses resiliency, and identifying, exploring and utilizing your strengths as resources to move through obstacles and hardships. We all use this approach to identify and set goals, and cultivate coping skills.

Attachment Theory

The quality of our early relationships shapes our brains, our nervous systems, and our degree of emotional resilience. Attachment theory looks at how we bond, find a sense of security and navigate getting our needs met in relationships. Our work in therapy will gradually help you build more secure attachments.

Jungian Psychology

Developed by Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, this modality draws on dreamwork, archetypes, and attention to one’s inner life to catalyze the process of individuation. It is a comprehensive method for understanding the relationship between conscious and unconscious experience.

Expressive Arts Therapy

Sometimes words are not enough. The arts allow us to express ourselves and get to the heart of an issue in a way words cannot. This approach draws on myriad modalities (visual arts, music, writing, sand tray, movement) to support you to find new ways express yourself and gain insight into an issue. The focus is not on the end result or creating a masterpiece, but by the process of creating you can explore your emotional landscape in a deep & insight way to gain a new perspectives or generate movement around an area that is stuck.

Drama Therapy

This is an action-based and experiential approach that allows for expression of stuck feelings and patterns to be released in a safe and contained environment through improv, role play, and imaginative exercises and activities. It can be both an active and reflective approach that allows for integration of experiences on a cognitive, physical, spiritual and emotional level.

EDUCATION

California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA Master of Arts ~ Counseling Psychology & Expressive Arts Therapy

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

Bachelor of Arts – Philosophy, Project Management, & Literature

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Asian Americans and Microaggressions: Clinical Implications – RAMs Inc. San Francisco, CA 5150 Certification Training San Francisco, CA – 2018 Bay Area Conference on Chinese American Mental Health Palo Alto, CA – April, 2017 Black History Month Event: Social Justice Awareness Training – San Francisco, CA February, 2017 Child Abuse Assessment Certification & Cultural Awareness Training – Shanthi Karamcheti, Edgewood, San Mateo, CA – 2015 Cultural Diversity with Natalie Thoreson Substance Abuse and Harm Reduction – Sue Ferrer Handle With Care 1 & Family Conferencing with Sue Henkin-Haas Edgewood, San Mateo, CA – 2015 Play Therapy Training with Karen Wolfe San Francisco, CA – 2014 Sandtray Training with Jo Sopko, MFT San Rafael, CA – 2011 Drama Therapy Training ~ Armand Volkas, MFT Oakland, CA – 2010 Working with Survivors of Domestic Violence 40 hour training certificate La Casa de las Madres San Francisco, CA – 2010 Process Group and Group Dynamics with Lois Friedlander, MFT San Francisco, CA – 2010

RELATED TRAINING

First Aid & CPR Certification American Heart Association Teacher’s Assistant in Movement and Dance Therapy with Charlotte Korda CIIS, San Francisco, CA – Nov 2013 & Feb 2017 5Rhythms with Lucia Horan Big Sur, CA – 2013 OpenFloor with Andrea Juhan Mountain View, CA – 2014 Reiki Master Trained and Certified Marlborough, UK – 2003 – 2005

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