Our Approach
Bay Door Clinic is San Francisco's open door to deeper care. A serious bench of existential, psychoanalytic, and relational clinicians — with structured, identity-affirming, and medication-management options — so every person finds a clinician who truly fits.
Most people arrive at therapy through a familiar door: anxiety, depression, a relationship in trouble, a life transition that will not resolve. Those are the door — not the identity. What we do beyond the door is the point.
Bay Door is built around depth work — existential, psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, relational, and Jungian — with structured and identity-affirming options available when they fit. That orientation runs through the whole clinic, not just a few clinicians.
The clinic is organized around a single core and three access wings. The core is what we do. The wings are the ways people find their way to a clinician who fits.
Existential, psychoanalytic, relational.
The heart of the clinic. Therapy that gets to the underlying question — why the same patterns keep returning, why relationships feel the way they do, what a person's suffering is actually about. Our bench carries rare lineages: R. D. Laing, Heidegger, Lacan, Jung, Bion.
CBT, ACT, EMDR, IFS.
For clients who want tools, focus, and a clear frame — held by clinicians who also think deeply. Evidence-based methods integrated into depth-oriented care rather than delivered as a protocol in isolation.
Meets you where and who you are.
Culturally sensitive, LGBTQ+-affirming, and multilingual clinicians. Depth care that takes race, culture, faith, sexuality, and gender seriously as parts of a life — not as add-ons.
In person in San Francisco, or by telehealth anywhere in California.
No waitlist. Insurance-friendly. Lower-fee associate care available for those who need a more accessible fee. Medication management available when it belongs alongside therapy — never as the first move.
Bay Door is a wider entry into serious depth work: more modalities, more identities, more ways in, no waitlist.
Tell us a little about what's bringing you in. We'll match you with a clinician on our team — depth-oriented, structured, or somewhere between.