Russ Sharkey, AMFT

Russ Sharkey is a post-graduate Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. He utilizes a systems approach in therapy to help clients deepen their understanding of themselves as individuals and as members of the different groups, cultures, contexts, and social systems to which they are connected.

Russ’s therapeutic orientation is rooted in attachment science, family systems, and somatic experience, with a goal of creating a sense of ease and emotional safety in one's own body and in relation to others. Training includes an Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy with the San Francisco Center for Emotional Focused Therapy, and Basic Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Training with the Sonoma Psychotherapy Training Institute.