Most Requested
Couples Therapy
Navigate recurring conflict, rebuild emotional safety, and restore the intimacy that made you choose each other.
San Francisco, CA · Couples & Individual Therapy
Anchor Your
Relationship.
Rebuild Your
Connection.
A safe space to do the most courageous work of your life — together. Evidence-based therapy for couples and individuals ready to transform.
200+ couples have found their way back
Free consultation
30 minutes, no pressure
Confidential · Compassionate · Transformative
Our Approach
A philosophy rooted in
trust, science, and heart.
Core Belief
The relationship you want is not only possible — it's already inside you.
We don't fix broken relationships. We excavate the connection that's been buried under stress, old patterns, and unspoken wounds — then we build something more intentional in its place.
Hearth & Haven Philosophy
200+
Couples transformed
Real people. Real breakthroughs. Real lasting change.
Evidence-Based
Grounded in Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy — the most rigorously researched approaches in the field.
Completely Confidential
Everything shared within these walls — or in our virtual space — stays here. A sacred container for your most honest conversations.
What We Offer
The work we do
together.
Every session is a step. Every breakthrough, a door.
Premarital Counseling
Begin your lifelong partnership with radical honesty, shared values, and a blueprint for the marriage you want.
Individual Therapy
Untangle the patterns rooted in your past. Build the self-awareness that transforms every relationship in your life.
Anxiety & Stress
Learn to quiet the noise. Develop practical, evidence-based tools to move through anxiety with calm and clarity.
Grief & Loss
There is no timeline for grief. We create a space where your loss is honored and your healing can unfold at its own pace.
Inclusive
LGBTQ+ Affirming
Inclusive, identity-affirming care for all relationship configurations and every chapter of your personal story.
The Practitioner
Dr. Sarah Chen
LMFT · Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Gottman Level III
EFT Certified
12 Years Experience
Her Story
A therapist who has walked through the fire herself.
Before Dr. Sarah Chen became a therapist, she was a partner navigating the same turbulence her clients describe. That journey — full of fear, rupture, and ultimately radical repair — is the foundation of her entire practice. She doesn't approach your pain from a textbook. She approaches it from lived experience, fortified by the most rigorous training in the field.
After earning her doctorate from UC Berkeley and completing advanced certification in both Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy, Sarah established Hearth & Haven with a singular mission: to create a space where transformation isn't a hope — it's the expectation.
The Approach
Research-backed. Heart-centered. Deeply human.
Every session draws on the science of attachment, the neurobiology of emotion, and the Gottman Institute's 40-year research into what makes relationships thrive. But the magic — the thing that produces real breakthroughs — is something no curriculum teaches: an uncanny ability to hear what isn't being said.
Sessions are rigorous and warm. Challenging and safe. Sarah will ask you the questions you've been avoiding — and hold you with enormous care as you find the answers.
Credentials
Built on a foundation of genuine expertise.
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Ph.D., Clinical Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
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Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT)
California Board of Behavioral Sciences
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Gottman Method Couples Therapy — Level III
The Gottman Institute, Seattle
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — Certified
ICEEFT Certified Therapist
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12+ Years Clinical Experience
Private practice since 2012
Begin Today
Your most important
relationship
is waiting.
Taking the first step is the hardest part. We'll meet you exactly where you are — with no judgment, and no pressure.
Completely confidential · No commitment required · Response within 24 hours
