Let’s rediscover your inner guide.

Hi, I’m Grace Tobin, a psychodynamic therapist helping growth-oriented women who are ready to uncover the deeper patterns behind their anxiety, relationships, and sense of self so they can reconnect with their intuition, trust themselves more deeply, and live with greater freedom and aliveness.

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GRACE TOBIN, LMFT | THERAPY FOR GROWTH-ORIENTED WOMEN

Welcome. I’m so happy you’re here.

I have always been a seeker. Long before I became a therapist, I was drawn to the questions that sit buried beneath the surface of our lives: What is the purpose of pain? Why does love feel complex?

Depth psychology became a natural home for my curiosity and way of understanding human life. I was drawn to a tradition that takes the inner world seriously and understands our struggles not simply as symptoms to eliminate, but as spiritual invitations to look at what is happening beneath the surface. 

Therapy offers us a place to descend into the deeper movements of the psyche, bringing greater awareness to what has been hidden and listening more closely to what our lives may be asking of us. As we come to know ourselves more deeply, I believe we also become more capable of loving ourselves and others more freely.

How I Work

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    Psychodynamic

    We explore unconscious patterns, early experiences, and the deeper forces shaping how you experience yourself and others.

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    Attachment & Relational

    We explore how you learned to seek connection, protect yourself in relationships, and navigate intimacy, while paying attention to what unfolds between us in therapy.

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    Somatic & Nervous System

    We listen to the body and work with patterns of activation, regulation, and safety, using somatic practices to create greater flexibility in how you meet what arises.

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    Parts Work (IFS)

    We approach the different parts of you with curiosity, exploring the fears, needs, and protective strategies beneath seemingly conflicting thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

My Specialties

My therapy practice is a space for growth-oriented women who have spent time understanding themselves and their patterns, but are ready to go deeper - to create more authentic lives and relationships that feel truly their own.

  • Relationships have a way of bringing our deepest patterns to the surface. Therapy offers a place to explore attachment, intimacy, conflict, boundaries, and the early relational experiences that continue to shape how we love and allow ourselves to be loved.

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  • Anxiety is experienced not only in the mind, but in the nervous system. I believe learning to work with the nervous system is an essential part of healing and liberation. My approach integrates somatic therapy to deepen awareness of anxiety as a felt experience while expanding the nervous system’s capacity for safety and regulation.

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  • Questions of meaning, identity, purpose, mortality, belonging, and how we want to spend our time here are deeply human. Existential therapy makes room for these questions and the mystery that comes with them, helping us orient toward a life that feels increasingly meaningful and our own.

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  • My approach to couples therapy integrates the Gottman Method with attachment-focused and somatic work. Communication skills are valuable, but knowing what to do is different from being able to access it when we feel hurt, threatened, or disconnected. My work emphasizes attunement and felt experience, helping couples embody new ways of relating rather than simply learning new skills.

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Life Outside the Therapy Room

I spend as much time as I can in the places that remind me of the vastness of things. Nature has always felt sacred to me.

Surfing, backpacking, and being somewhere wild help return me to a sense of perspective, reverence, and connection to something larger than myself. 

I’m a long time practitioner of yoga, and it has been particularly formative for me. Years of practice have shaped the way I understand attention, grounding, the nervous system, and the body as a source of information rather than something separate from psychological life.

I’m also almost always reading something, usually in the worlds of depth psychology, neurobiology, fiction, or whatever rabbit hole currently has my attention. I value humor, humility, good food, people I love, and not taking ourselves quite so seriously all the time.

Education, Credentials, & Clinical Trainings

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), California

  • Master’s in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy Clinical Training

  • Certified Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 200)

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