I’ve heard of horror stories of people ending intimate encounters because their pets are freaking out in the room.

Gracie Landes

Gracie Landes has been seeing therapy clients since since 2001, when she worked as a counselor at Progress Foundation, a community based residential treatment and supportive housing program in San Francisco, California; then at the John F. Kennedy University Counseling Center. While in graduate school, Gracie launched a counseling program for children and families affected by domestic violence, with a colleague. After graduating with a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California in 2003, Gracie interned at The Family Institute of Pinole (California), where she provided counseling to victims of crime, families undergoing stress or affected by domestic and other forms of violence, in an innovative training program for family therapists. In New York, Gracie trained at The Ackerman Institute for the Family, worked as a clinician-researcher in two different family therapy treatment programs: one a drug treatment center in the Bronx, and one at New York University, before she started her private practice in Manhattan. Gracie is licensed to practice Marriage and Family Therapy in New York State, and is an AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist. Before becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist, Gracie worked in graphic design, adult education, organizational psychology and corporate training. She has presented workshops on creativity and change, facilitated meetings for organizations such as The San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper, Oakland: Sharing the Vision, The Support Center for Nonprofit Management, and Media Alliance. She also taught at the University of California Berkeley and Santa Cruz extensions, Academy of Art College, and Marin College.

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