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 Dr. Vanessa Vertin is the head of Revolutionary Love, a psychotherapy company focused on modern-day relationships, whose aim is to promote acceptance of all relationship forms, and to therapeutically revolutionize how people function within relationship. Vanessa is well-known for her dedication to helping people create fulfilling, exciting and ever-evolving relationships. She is committed to modernizing the institution of marriage and supporting the creative development of other chosen forms of lasting relationship outside of the institution. Vanessa runs a private practice in San Francisco and is excited about the new collaboration of therapies offered at Balance Restored and with CLEAR Center of Health. Her main specializations are holistic psychotherapy, couple relationships, mood disorders, developmental transitions and trauma/abuse. Other areas that Dr. Vertin has extensive training and therapeutic experience with include: freedom and intimacy dynamics, marriage and other relationship forms, integrative medicine and psychotherapy related to family building, fertility and pregnancy, survivors of abuse (emotional, physical, sexual, ritual, domestic), perpetrators of abuse/domestic violence, issues of elders and their families (i.e. caregiver exhaustion), 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 since 1994 and is a certified EMDR therapist. EMDR is the go-to therapy for trauma and loss (among other issues) and is acknowledged for its ability to resolve subconscious issues quickly, thereby providing an amazing level of relief from psychological pain. Vanessa earned her Ph.D. in 2003 from The California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco in Clinical Psychology with specializations in holistic health and coupling relationships. She has worked extensively with couples of all sexual preferences and combinations. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled, “Coupling Relationships: Freedom, Intimacy, and the Institution of Marriage”. Her internships spanned over 6,000 hours of therapy and took place mainly in community service/social justice organizations and private practice. She worked with Catholic Charities as a client advocate during her bachelor’s degree in Minnesota, which included a six month internship her senior year. Her master’s level internships were at Episcopal Community Services in San Diego where her main clients were couples, survivors of incest, people with mood disorders, and domestic violence victims as well as perpetrators. For her doctoral rotations she was at Marin Community Mental Health for two years, working with elders, people struggling with depression and anxiety, in-patient populations suffering with psychosis, children and their families, and couples. |
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