Arebeth Pease
Registered Associate Marriage + Family Therapist #160439

Supervised by Nicole Desamparo, LMFT #48275

Adolescent + Teen Therapy
 Child Therapy
Couples + Relationship Therapy
Family Therapy
Individual Adult Therapy

Benicia Office

• Anxiety

• Depression

• ADHD

• Self esteem

• Life transitions

• Child + adolescent therapy

• Play-based + creative therapies

• Identity development 

• Emotional regulation + impulse control

• Neurodiversity

• Stress related to school/academics

• Peer relationships; social skills

• Parent-child relationships

• Family transitions

• LGBTQIA+ Affirming Care

• Grief and loss

• Master’s in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)

• Child-Centered Play Therapy

I work with children, adolescents, adults, people in relationships, and families navigating a wide range of challenges as they make sense of their experience with greater clarity, understanding, and self-compassion. I’m especially passionate about supporting neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ individuals and families, as well as those with lived experiences of shame, otherness, or an unmet sense of belonging.

Children, Adolescents, and Families

Much of my clinical work centers on children, teens, and families navigating emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges. I work with concerns including ADHD, autism, neurodiversity, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, shame, identity development, school-related difficulties, self-harm, and family conflict. I understand behavior as meaningful communication and an important window to a child’s inner world, emotional experience, and unmet emotional needs. I tailor treatment to each child’s unique needs, creating space for them to feel seen, understood, and supported. I also collaborate closely with caregivers to strengthen attunement, understanding, communication, and connection. 

Adults

I work with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, grief, identity exploration, self-esteem concerns, and neurodiversity-related issues. My goal is to help clients strengthen resilience, improve relationships, and create meaningful change aligned with their values and goals.

Couples + Relationships

I work with people in relationships seeking to strengthen communication, navigate conflict, deepen connection, and better understand one another. I support a wide range of relationship structures, identities, and expressions, including cis-hetero and LGBTQIA+ partnerships, consensually non-monogamous relationships, polycules, co-parents, found family systems, and other diverse relational dynamics. I provide an affirming space for relational work shaped by trauma, neurodiversity, life transitions, parenting stress, trust concerns, and differing needs or expectations.

My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in the understanding that meaningful healing happens through safety, curiosity, and authentic connection. 

As an integrative therapist, I see each person as a whole human being and honor the interconnectedness of mind, body, relationships, culture, identity, environment, and lived experience. My work is grounded in trauma-informed, relational, multicultural, and humanistic perspectives, and I strive to create a space where clients feel safe, supported, and fully seen. 

At the heart of my work is deep respect for each person’s innate capacity for growth, resilience, and meaningful change at every stage of life. I provide an affirming, inclusive space where clients feel supported, understood, and judgment-free. Together, we explore patterns, process difficult experiences, build coping skills, and develop greater awareness and self-compassion.

I earned my Master’s in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. My clinical training includes providing child and family therapy, individual therapy, partner therapy, and case management services to critically underserved communities in the Bay Area. This work deepened my commitment to culturally responsive, trauma-informed care and strengthened my passion for supporting clients navigating complex personal, relational, and systemic challenges.

As a neurodivergent clinician, I bring both professional training and lived experience into my work, which informs my commitment to creating affirming, accessible, and compassionate therapeutic spaces.

I’m continually moved by the courage it takes to show up in therapy, explore and own our stories, tend to unmet needs, and grow in self-understanding, self-compassion, and connection. I especially love working with families, where relational healing has the power to create profound change—not only within individuals, but across entire family systems and generations.

Outside the therapy room, I’m passionate about holistic healing through food, the arts, energy work, and the restorative power of the human-animal bond.