Stephen Buehler

Stephen Buehler, MFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over two decades of experience in providing psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, families, and groups. He specializes in working with couples and families navigating complex demands, as well as high accountability, high demand professionals like physicians, nurses, scientists, engineers, lawyers, academics, executives, and team leaders. Stephen's therapeutic approach is grounded in a deeply humanistic commitment to personal freedom, anti-racism, anti-scapegoating, and the celebration of diversity. He offers services to individuals, couples, and families of all cultures, political orientations, ethnicities, and formations. Stephen's background includes working in management consulting, integrated healthcare delivery, and community clinics, and he has experience in crisis response, deploying to over 300 critical incident stress debriefings. He has also worked in a therapeutic team at a group home in Marin County, California, for children recovering from severe abuse and trauma, and in a short-term residential facility for adults living with serious psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia. Stephen's clinical approach is enriched by a lifelong practice of movement, somatics, and body-based awareness, drawing from a range of modalities, including Gestalt Therapy, Formative Psychology, family systems theory, psychodynamic and attachment-based frameworks, and experiential play therapy. He holds a Master's degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a liberal arts Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.