No Labels Required Therapy for All of You

Couples Therapy

Even committed couples can get caught in repetitive cycles of misinterpretation, defensiveness, and lingering hurt. My work draws on family systems and psychodynamic insights to help you both make sense of where these painful loops come from. From there, we create the clarity needed to heal past fractures, communicate honestly, and truly reconnect. Read More

Kink Affirming

My kink-affirming approach provides an intentional, non-pathologizing container where your desires, practices, and relationship structures are recognized as valid facets of human expression and intimacy.

Trauma

When painful experiences remain unprocessed, everyday moments can trigger anxiety, exhaustion, or defensive self-protection. I combine relational psychodynamic therapy, EMDR and somatic therapy to begin to allow you to go in and through past experience so you can reconnect with your body, others move toward relief and increased self-agency. Read More

Relationship Changes.

Recent loss of a key relationship, or one or more partners navigating changes simultaneously. The old ways of doing things in the relationship no longer work. Read More

Leadership Effectiveness

Finding your ways of leading are not resulting in the types of results that you or your organization want. Want a place to sort through legacy or how your values tie in to leading.

Bisexual Affirming Therapist

We live in an either or culture. Being a both and person you need space to sort through. Read More

Recovery from toxic leadership

Living in a world created by toxic leadership you have sorted through gaslighting and suffered intimidation. Read more

Organizational challenges

Is your team not cohesive. Are you leading a team that lacks trust, does not work toward the same goals? Read more

Isolation and lack of connection

Working remotely, living alone, connecting through the internet can leave you feeling isolated. Read more

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David Buechner, MA, MDiv., Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist 162644 working under clinical supervision

Employed by Blackbird Institute, Oakland

Supervised by Eugene Porter, LMFT 19703

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Blackbird Institute (in-person and Online)

444 34th Street

Oakland, CA 94609

Call: 415-390-6367 to schedule a 15 minute consultation

Oakland, CA 94609

david@davidbtherapy.com