About Camilla
Camilla Ford is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and practices in California. She greets people with a calm presence and aims to make the process of asking for help feel straightforward and respectful.
Camilla focuses on stress and anxiety among many concerns including relationships, grief, parenting, coping with life changes, addictions, and trauma. She uses a person-centered, humanistic stance that centers the client's strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and aim to help people find practical next steps toward clearer thinking and better daily coping. Her background includes work in day treatment programs, schools, hospitals, and independent practice. That variety shaped her ability to adapt sessions to different life situations and levels of support.
She draws on decades of hands-on experience to guide clients through transitions and crises. In the therapy room she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people identify values and goals. The approach emphasizes empathy and practical problem solving rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Clients leave sessions with specific ideas they can try between meetings. Camilla trained at Stanford and holds a master’s degree in psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She uses counseling models influenced by Carl Rogers, Virginia Satir, and Murray Bowen while keeping the focus on each person's present concerns and resources.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Camilla uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques rooted in humanistic and systemic ideas. One common strand is person-centered work, which emphasizes empathetic listening and helping people identify their own goals and strengths. This approach helps with anxiety, stress, and decision-making by keeping the client's priorities central.She also incorporates elements drawn from family systems thinking, which looks at patterns in relationships and how those patterns affect current concerns. That perspective can be useful for relationship stress, parenting challenges, and patterns that contribute to anxiety or low mood.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Camilla will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. The aim is to find what works best for the individual's needs and preferences, not to force a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging can fit into busy days for brief updates or between-session support. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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