Kim Slipski (Bielak)

Like many therapists, therapy is not my first career. After graduating UC Berkeley, I advanced into a corporate career in tech & marketing in both San Francisco and New York. It was my own experience with anxiety and burnout that led me to finally take a step back and, after a sabbatical to travel and teach yoga, I spent several years helping other career changers and leaders in organizations find more purpose and balance through several years as an executive, life, and career coach.

These experiences, along with outside training and education in positive psychology, mindfulness, yoga, and more, continue to both inform my work and help me understand clients in high-stress and high-achieving fields, as well as help clients find new perspectives and ways of being that often stretch and expand the current limits of their thinking.

Many of my clients identify as high-achievers, and find themselves in jobs as corporate and tech professionals, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and executives.

Creative, successful, and often identified as “gifted” from an early age, many still struggle with stress, anxiety, perfectionism, and other challenges at home. However, quite a few still never felt like their problems were “bad enough” to justify therapy.

I love helping clients reach new levels of depth by “slowing down to speed up,” as well as using immersive modalities like EMDR and IFS to help clients work through deep-rooted material and even achieve targeted performance enhancement.

• Anxiety

• Burnout

• Trauma

A key tenet in my life is balance. That’s why you’ll find much of my approach is a continuous dynamic between slower and deeper healing modalities that go below surface-level tools to actively address the root of the issue, alongside more positive, active, and even coach-like approaches that help clients actually integrate and take action on new learning.

Credentials

Kim Slipski, LMFT #143946

Advanced Training

• EMDR Therapy - EMDR Basic Training, 5-Day Intensive, EMDR Consulting (40 CEUs)

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) - IFS Online Circle: Foundations of the IFS Model (40.75 CEUs)

• Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy - Dr. Sue Johnson's Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis (16.75 CEUs)

• Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy - Introduction to the Hakomi Method (12 CEUs)

• Child-Centered Play Therapy - Play Therapy Online Training Academy (24 CEUs)

• TF-CBT - Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (11 CEUs)

• Mindfulness in Clinical Practice - AULA

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - AULAThe Science and Application of Positive Psychology
  - Harvard Extension School

• 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training - Zuna Yoga

Experience

• Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, California Integrative Therapy

• Resource Associate at Teen Line

• Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, School-Based, The Center for Professional Counseling

• Marriage & Family Therapist Trainee, The Center for Professional Counseling

Education

• Antioch University, Los Angeles - MA, Clinical Psychology

• University of California, Berkeley - BA, Media Studies

Associations & Memberships

• EMDRIA (EMDR International Association) - Member (2024 - present)

• CAMFT (California Association of Family Therapists) - Member (2024 - present)

• Yoga Alliance - Member (2023 - present)

In-Person:
Tues 10-4
Thur 10-4

Virtual:
Mon 10-4
Wed 10-4

Individuals

50-minute session: $250
90-minute session: $425

Couples

Please note that I am not currently taking new couples at this time.