Jose Buenrostro, MFT

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I work mainly with adults in individual therapy. I got my Masters degree from San Francisco State University and have been practicing for over 6 years. I am originally from Mexico, I emigrated to the U.S. at the age of 11. In my free time, I enjoy taking long walks, eating, exploring, traveling, spending time with loved ones and my dog Miso. I have extensive training in psychoanalytic therapy as well as existential and attachment-based psychotherapy. My Philosophy Being in therapy is like a journey you take with the therapist as a guide as both travel through the landscapes of the psyche. I understand that this is a very intimate experience and allowing someone to walk with you along this journey takes time as you find the right person to walk with and build trust. I believe it is important to develop a narrative about our lives and our experiences that makes sense to us and brings us meaning. Therapy can provide that space and relationship. Growing up we are not really taught how to communicate with others, how to express our needs, wants, and desires and as adults we often struggle with this. Therapy is that space in time once a week where you will stop and reflect upon your psychic experience, the time to get to know yourself a little bit better, to get to know more about the precious landscape that is your psyche including those dark parts that might be so difficult to see. Therapy requires the courage to look inside yourself and to make those changes to live a more authentic and joyous life. I believe all humans have the inner drive to relate and to create and while it is not the easiest of journeys it is certainly one worth taking. I like to think of psychotherapy as an intense encounter where creativity occurs. Creativity, meaning the creation of something new, a new meaning, a new narrative about life and the self. This experience is unique to the therapeutic encounter as the therapist commits to this process of intense knowing of the client. I believe that the potential of this creation is limitless and can only be known by engaging fully.