Compassionate Mental Health Care for Individuals, Couples, and Families
Providing accessible mental health services, counseling, and professional training programs that help individuals, couples, and families heal, grow, and thrive.
We know that seeking help can be daunting.
Rose City Center is devoted to improving our community by offering accessible, high-quality psychodynamic therapy throughout California, and by providing training to psychology students. Learn more about Rose City’s mission here.
Why the Human Connection Matters in Therapy
There are more ways to seek emotional support than ever before. Apps, text-based services, and AI tools can offer convenience, information, and a place to put thoughts into words. But psychotherapy offers something fundamentally different: a relationship with another human being. At Rose City Center, that relationship isn’t simply part of therapy, it is one of the ways therapy works.
Therapy is more than talking
When you sit with a therapist, communication happens on many levels. A therapist hears your words, but also notices the pause before you answer, the change in your expression, or the joke you make when something becomes uncomfortable.
Over time, your therapist will come to understand your history, recognize your patterns, and notice changes that you may not even see yourself.
Some experiences need another person
Therapy can bring us into contact with grief, anger, fear, shame, loneliness, and memories we have tried not to think about. In those moments, we often need more than advice or the right words. We need another person who can stay with us.
A therapist can listen without rushing to solve the problem and respond to the person in front of them, not simply to the words being spoken.
Therapy is a relationship that develops over time
Meaningful therapy develops through consistency and trust. As your therapist gets to know you, patterns can emerge. When these patterns show up in therapy, they can be explored within a relationship designed to help you understand them, and then begin to change them.
There isn't always an answer
Many of the questions people bring to therapy don't have simple solutions. Should I stay in this relationship? Why do I keep repeating the same pattern? Why am I unhappy when everything seems fine? A good therapist doesn't give you a predetermined answer. They help you slow down, become curious, consider what you may not have considered before, and understand yourself more fully.
Sometimes we don't need someone, or something, to tell us what to do. We need a person willing to think it through with us.
Technology can be useful, but therapy offers something different
Digital tools can help people learn about mental health, organize their thoughts, or practice new skills, but psychotherapy offers something different.
Psychotherapy is being listened to and being noticed. It is having someone remember where you've been while helping you explore where you might go next. It is another person making time to understand you as a whole person and to help you understand yourself.
At Rose City Center, our therapists meet with clients in person and through secure video sessions. Both allow something we believe is essential to meaningful psychotherapy: two people, present with one another, doing the work together.
Our therapy services
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Commonly referred to as insight-oriented therapy or depth therapy, this therapeutic approach examines the root cause for certain behaviors and thought processes. Rose City Clinicians explore the client’s unconscious thoughts and feelings while facilitating awareness of established relational patterns and their impact on our day-to-day interactions. Our clinicians also examine the therapist/client relationship as a potential representation of deeper meaning.
Therapy is the key to long-lasting change.
During your time at Rose City Center, you and your therapist will collaborate thoughtfully and sensitively to alleviate your symptoms and to explore concerns, problems, and issues which may be holding you back. Together, you will work toward a more satisfying life and clear a path for more meaningful relationships.
We are proud to offer our services on a sliding scale.
Rose City Center’s in-depth approach allows you and your therapist to determine the length and frequency of treatment. Rose City Center is committed to providing a safe and private therapeutic environment to everyone, regardless of their financial status. Rose City Center does not accept insurance.
If you are searching for answers that can lead to change, reach out today.
Rose City therapy sessions are typically 45 minutes once per week but may occur two or more times a week, as needed.
“I had two excellent therapists in a two year period, one for six months, the other for a year and a half. Made excellent progress, even beyond my expectations. A good fit is very important and this counseling center will definitely have someone for everyone. Considering it is very low fee for those in need of affordable therapy, it is an amazing place doing incredible work.”
