- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Grief
About Camilla
Camilla Ford is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of experience. She offers calm, direct support for parents and other adults facing stress, relationship strain, grief, mood challenges, or struggles with sleep, eating, and focus. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
She meets people where they are and listens with presence. Her style is warm and collaborative - she helps clients name goals, try small changes, and notice what works.
Background and approach
Parents often seek her out when family routines, boundaries, or parenting stress feel overwhelming. Her background includes work in day treatment programs, schools, hospitals, and independent practice. That range gives her experience with many types of life disruptions and transitions.
She trained at Stanford and earned a master’s degree in psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Camilla draws on humanistic and person-centered ideas, emphasizing strength and personal resources. She borrows from established family therapy thinkers when helpful and keeps the focus practical and grounded.
Conversations tend to be straightforward, with an emphasis on skills you can use between sessions. Therapy with her is collaborative. She helps clients clarify priorities, try new approaches to relationships and parenting, and build steady habits for mood and stress management.
She respects each person’s pace and works to find realistic steps toward clearer connection and more manageable days.
What Camilla works with
Everything Camilla lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Camilla helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
Approaches and online options for practical parenting support
Camilla uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques grounded in humanistic and person-centered principles. Person-centered work emphasizes active listening and building on a person’s strengths to create clearer goals and action steps; it helps with confidence, self-esteem, and motivation. Family systems ideas look at patterns in relationships and everyday routines to identify small shifts that improve communication and reduce conflict, which can be useful for parenting and couple stress.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to match methods to current goals, preferences, and the pace that feels right. Together they decide what to try, check what helps, and adjust as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video allows face-to-face conversation for relationship work, phone can fit a short check-in or lower bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging can support brief updates or coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to continue momentum between appointments.
Questions people ask about Camilla
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, parenting challenges, addictions, trauma and abuse, sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, bipolar and depression, ADHD, and related life changes.
How would you describe her approach and style?
Her approach is humanistic and person-centered, with a collaborative style that focuses on strengths and practical steps. Conversations are intended to be compassionate and solution-oriented.
What is her professional background?
She has 25 years of clinical experience across day treatment settings, schools, hospitals, and independent practice, and holds a master’s degree in psychology.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She practices in California and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT).
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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