San Francisco & online throughout California

You don't have
to figure this
out alone.

Therapy that creates meaningful change, and goes beyond "just talking".

We work with the full range of what makes human life difficult: anxiety, trauma, loss, transitions, our bodies, the question of what any of this means.

Cocoon Collective Therapy Group is a group of therapists in San Francisco who came together around a shared conviction: that good therapy is a craft, and craft requires constant refinement.

We practice differently than most practices. That difference is deliberate.

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How we work

01
The relationship is the work.

Techniques matter. The evidence base matters. But the quality of the therapeutic relationship is the most consistent predictor of outcome in the research — and the thing we think about most.

02
Experience changes things that understanding can’t.

We’re trained in approaches that work at the level of felt, embodied experience — not just conversation. AEDP, EMDR, Hakomi, somatics, Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. This distinction matters, and it’s why we chose these approaches.

03
Good therapy is a craft. Craft requires practice.

We’ve built ongoing feedback and peer review into how we work — structured skill development that goes well beyond the standard.

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Owner & Founding Member
Julia Tisdale
LMFT · she/her
Anxiety, women’s health, AEDP & ketamine-assisted therapy
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Founding Member
Claire Bostrom
ACSW · she/her
Complex trauma · somatic work · ketamine-assisted therapy
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Founding Member
Claire Wild
AMFT · she/her
Grief · LGBTQ+ affirmative · Gestalt
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Our Philosophy

“Most therapists practice in complete privacy. A closed room. What occurs there is known only to two people. We’ve built something different.”

Most therapists get very little feedback after finishing their training. No one watching. No outside perspective. The research is clear: experience alone doesn’t make therapy more effective. What does work is structured, feedback-based skill development. We wanted to build a practice that took that seriously.

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