About Me.

Justin Hartford is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and is a level 2 Gottman trained couple's therapist, also currently working with individuals and teens.

Justin's first career was working in outside sales in the sporting goods industry for over a decade, before pursuing a Master's degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute, a program significantly focused on a psychodynamic approach to therapy. Justin began his clinical experience working with a non-profit in the bay area, StarVista. There, he worked with mandated pre-trial or post-conviction clients at the federal level and that evolved into also working with mandated teenage clients, utilizing evidence-based and cognitive behavior therapy.

To expand his clinical experience, Justin decided to pursue an opportunity practicing the Gottman couple's therapy method, while continuing to work with individuals and teens. Justin continues to approach therapy and life through a psychodynamic perspective, feeling the past often influences present thoughts and behaviors and also applies evidence-based and cognitive behavioral therapy when applicable.