Women of color
New motherhood. A career that stopped fitting. A relationship ending. The exhaustion of being the strong one in rooms not built for you.
Berkeley, California & online statewide
Come as you are.
Your story has a place in therapy.
I'm Naomi Briley, a licensed marriage and family therapist. I work with women of color, teenagers, and the parents raising them.
You don't need to know where to start, or how to explain it yet.
Free 15 minutes
A short call, no commitment, to find out whether we're a good fit for each other.
In network
Aetna and Optum. Superbills for every other plan, so you can claim it back.
Both ways
In person in Berkeley, or online anywhere in California.
Who I work with
Therapy that makes room for where you come from.
Often the people holding everything together for everyone else. I see individuals, couples and families, ages 10 and up.
Teens and young adults
School pressure, friendships, and the things that are harder to say out loud. I spent years in a hospital teen clinic. Very little surprises me.
Parents and caregivers
You are trying to give your child something you did not receive yourself. We work on the relationship, not the behavior.
What we can work on
You do not have to arrive with the right words for it.
Some people know exactly what is wrong. Others just know something is off. Both are a fine place to start.
- Anxiety and panic
- Depression
- Trauma and its aftereffects
- Life transitions, chosen and unchosen
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflict
- Parenting and caregiving
- School stress and friendship trouble
- Self-esteem
- Work and career pressure
- Women's mental health
- Stress that stopped being manageable
I draw on cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment-based and family systems work, dialectical behavior therapy, and narrative therapy, chosen to fit you rather than the other way around.
I do this work to support clients, specifically adolescents and women of color, with navigating life's most difficult moments and healing from trauma, all while exploring and realizing their full potential.
Naomi Briley, LMFT
About Naomi
Twelve years before the therapy room.
Before I became a therapist I worked in the non-profit world, on social justice and civil rights. That background is not decoration. It shapes how I listen, and it means you will not have to explain the context of your life before we can get to work.
My goal is to leave you with self-healing tools you can use for a lifetime. I am currently training in somatic healing and EMDR.
- 2021 to 2022 UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland Teen clinic, ages 12 to 24. Attachment-based parent and child groups in the Outpatient Resiliency Clinic, and therapy for trauma-impacted young people.
- Certified Circle of Security International facilitator Also trained in Child Parent Psychotherapy, Attachment Vitamins, and Dovetail's "We Are Resilient."
- 2015 to 2021 Rosenberg Foundation, San Francisco Ran a leadership program for emerging social justice leaders across California.
- 2019 MA, Counseling Psychology Holy Names University, Oakland. BA in Communications from Howard University.
Fees & insurance
The part nobody likes asking about.
$200
Individual session
$250
Couples or family session
Free
First 15 minute consultation
In network
- Aetna
- Optum
On another plan, I provide a superbill you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement.
Sliding scale
I keep a small number of reduced-fee places. Ask me on the consultation call, and please do ask. It's a normal question and I would rather you did.
The first step is a conversation, not a commitment.
Fifteen minutes on the phone. You tell me what is going on, and I tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.
Book a free 15 minute call