Camilla Ford , LMFT

Camilla Ford is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of clinical experience supporting individuals, children, couples, and families. She combines compassionate listening, steady presence, and practical guidance to help people navigating crisis, transition, or the pursuit of healing, growth, clarity, and connection.

Ford earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford and holds a Master of Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her experience spans day treatment programs, schools, hospitals, and private practice, giving her a broad perspective on a range of life challenges and developmental needs.

Her practice is rooted in a humanistic, person-centered approach that emphasizes clients' strengths and inherent capacity for change. She works collaboratively, offering empathetic support while partnering with clients to discover creative, workable solutions. Her work is influenced by the theories of Carl Rogers, Virginia Satir, and Murray Bowen, reflecting a focus on relationship dynamics, family systems, and the therapeutic relationship as a vehicle for growth.

Clients receive respectful, warm care aimed at improving relationships, coping with loss and change, managing stress and mood concerns, and rebuilding a sense of well-being and purpose. All communications are personal.

Person-Centered and Family Systems in Online Care

Camilla’s work draws on person-centered, humanistic principles that prioritize empathetic listening and the therapeutic relationship. This approach focuses on understanding each person’s lived experience, reinforcing strengths, and helping clients gain insight and self-directed change. It is often helpful for stress, anxiety, grief, and self-esteem concerns.

She also integrates family systems ideas influenced by Murray Bowen and Virginia Satir, which examine patterns of interaction within families and relationships. Family systems perspectives can clarify recurring conflicts, improve communication, and support healthier relational boundaries for couples and family members.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and is done collaboratively. Camilla works with clients to identify goals, preferences, and practical needs, then tailors the therapeutic style and techniques accordingly, so the plan fits the individual or family rather than forcing a single method.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for varied schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it possible to maintain continuity of care from different locations and to choose the mode of communication that best supports progress and accessibility with licensed professionals and therapists.