About Mika
Mika Shiner, MFT
Arts Therapy, Couples Therapy, Sex Therapy & Individual Psychotherapy
Expressionistic Arts & Somatic Psychotherapist for Adults and Children, and EFT Couples Therapy
Healing and growth can occur at any age.
I work with people of all ages and am trained in both child therapy and couples therapy. I also work with teens and individual adults.
-Mika Shiner, MFT, Attachment-Based Therapies: Somatic & Expressionistic Art Psychotherapist and EFT Couples Therapist
COUPLES THERAPY, AND SOMATIC ART THERAPY WITH MIKA SHINER, MFT:
My passion is empowering people of all ages including children and adults (individual and couples) to master their emotional lives in a warm, safe, and dynamic environment.
San Francisco and Online Couples and Sex Therapy
THERAPY FOR ADULTS & COUPLES:
Our work with adults and couples is from an attachment based lens. Mika is trained in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples) which is the leading modality in couples therapy that is evidence base with an 90% efficacy rate .
EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY (EFT)
Emotionally focused therapy was developed by Dr. Susan Johnson. It is a highly effective, evidence-based modality that focuses on emotions and attachment needs. The goal is to help clients identify, explore, experience, make sense of, and manage their emotional experience. This type of marriage counseling was first developed for couples, but it has proven useful for family counseling as well. Dr. Johnson’s method is used worldwide in hospitals, clinics, private practices, and training centers. Although emotionally focused therapy is helpful in most situations, it especially should be considered if depression is a suspected culprit of relationship woes.
Typically a short-term approach, emotionally focused therapy has three main goals. It encourages the expansion and reorganization of key emotional responses. It seeks to secure a tight bond between you and your partner. The therapy repositions each partner’s stance during interactions and creates new, beneficial interactions in your partnership. Emotionally focused therapy has been found to move 70 to 75% of relationships from a troubled state to a state of recovery. Significant improvement has been realized for 90% of couples using this therapy.
GOTTMAN METHOD
Gottman Method Couples Therapy has the benefit of three decades of research and practice in clinical settings with more than three thousand couples. The Gottman Method uses couples counseling techniques to increase affection, closeness, and respect. These techniques help you resolve conflict when you feel like you’re at an impasse. You and your partner learn to understand one another and to discuss problems calmly.
The Gottman Method of couples counseling shows you how to build love maps, which help you learn about your partner’s psychological world by mapping your partner’s worries, stresses, joys, hopes, and history. Fondness and admiration are strengthened by expressing respect and appreciation for each other. This is a method of couples therapy that allows you to state your needs, and it stresses conflict management rather than conflict resolution.You and your partner learn to speak honestly about your aspirations and convictions. Trust and commitment to a lifelong relationship are reinforced.
Finding the right therapist is an important step in the healing process. As a Marriage and Family Therapist and an Expressive Art Therapist, I specialize in working with individuals, couples and their families facing transition, relationship challenges, divorce, grief, anxiety, and trauma.
I also work with adults and young adults. Some areas of focus include anxiety, life transitions, LGBTQ+ clients, gender identity, sexuality, life goals, relationship issues, parenting and co-parenting, divorce, trauma and grief.
In my work with couples I utilize my training in EFT to work for an attachment-based perspective, help couples break negative patterns of communicating and feeling, increase intimacy, cultivate better communication skills, and deepen emotional & sexual connections
-Mika Shiner, MFT, San Francisco Intimacy & Sex Therapy Centers: Attachment-Based Therapies: Somatic & Expressionistic Art & Individual Adult Psychotherapist
SOME OF Mika’s SPECIALTIES INCLUDE:
Relationship Challenges
Sex Therapy
Emotional Challenges in Transitions
Bereavement Issues
Emotional management of a serious, acute, or chronic illness
Sexuality Issues
Attachment Needs
Deepening Intimacy and Connection
Improving Communication Skills
