The Treehouse Team

Christine (she/her) is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has over 13 years of experience working with children, teens and their families. Christine holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology with a focus on transpersonal studies. Christine’s background includes providing therapy on-site in various public schools throughout the Bay Area, short term family counseling, and trauma-informed community-based services to foster care youth and their families.

While Christine has experience providing therapy to individuals of all ages, she has a keen interest and passion for working with children and adolescents and has experience working with children as young as two years old.

Working with children means partnering with parents/caregivers. Christine believes the way to create effective and lasting change is to collaborate with parents/caregivers. As a mother, Christine is passionate about helping families strengthen their relationship with one another.

Christine utilizes a child-centered approach and uses play therapy techniques, as well as techniques from other theoretical orientations, to give children the opportunity to express their feelings, practice appropriate social interactions, process life events and gain confidence.

Christine’s clinical experience includes: depression, anxiety, child abuse, trauma, foster care, adoption, emotional dysregulation, divorce, parenting support, relationship difficulties, attachment, self-esteem and confidence issues.

Michelle Culver is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15 years’ experience in the field of trauma through various roles (researcher, educator, author, therapist). Michelle’s background in developmental psychology has informed her clinical work with clients of all ages. She has worked with clients through each developmental stage, from age 1 to adulthood, and enjoys witnessing how therapy can help clients achieve their developmental and relationship goals. Michelle’s clinical experience includes: child abuse, trauma, anxiety, depression, sensory challenges, emotion dysregulation, relationship difficulties, and attachment issues.

Sandra Berger is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.  She has over 12 years of experience providing mental health counseling to children, teens, and their families.  Sandra holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Exercise Psychology and a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University. Sandra’s varied experiences as a therapist include working in residential treatment, public and private schools, in-home services, emergency services and at the Alameda County receiving center.  These experiences have given her vast clinical experiences to help patients with many different treatment issues such as child abuse, trauma, attachment disruption, immigration and acculturation, emotional dysregulation, depression, divorce, adoption, blended families, kinship, and foster care. She understands clinical and life issues from a diverse point of view that allows her to see the patient and their problems from many different perspectives.  She works from an integrative framework of understanding that incorporates attachment, neuropsychology, and family systems, with Integrative Play Therapy and Expressive Arts to meet the varied needs of the children, teens, individual adults, and families she provides counseling services with.

Sandra has specialized training in working with adolescents, identity related problems, and attachment problems such as feeling connected and having a sense of belonging. She brings together a wealth of knowledge and life experiences to create a counseling experience for all those she serves that is safe, compassionate, supportive and offers the opportunity to grow and release what holds them back.