Quetzal Francois

Registered Marriage Family Therapist Associate # 127114
Tel: (510) 496 6002 ext. 2

““I love myself.’ the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution. ever.”
—Nayyirah Waheed
Quetzal comes to her clinical work through living her own story. Her personal and professional experiences deeply inform the path that led her to becoming a therapist. She has 10 years of experience designing curriculum and facilitation of groups for teens and people. She has taught sexual health education and social and emotional learning programs all over the Bay Area. Most recently, Quetzal has been applying her passion for seeing multiple perspectives inside intimate relationships to her practice with couples and individual adults.
Quetzal has a warm, collaborative, direct and engaged presence with clients.  She works to be attuned to her client’s strengths and needs. Aa mixed-race queer woman she holds an intimate understanding of the need for a therapeutic approach that is intersectional. She aims to create a safe space that centers the complexity of being alive, celebrates vulnerability and affirms the need to belong and be in connection with others. She welcomes all parts of her client’s sense of self into their work together. Her intention is to shed light on the path to help guide her clients’ home to themselves.
Quetzal’s framework is integrative and attunes to each person’s needs. She utilizes variety of approaches such as attachment theory, somatic, expressive arts, parts work, and mindfulness. She develops, with the client, a strength-based space dedicated to healing and liberation where clients can fully reclaim themselves.
 
Some clinical areas of interest are:
 
Sexuality & Intimacy
Couples/Relationship (including polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous relationships)
Body Shame & Image Issues
Immigration
Trauma
Identity development (gender & sexuality, racial & cultural identity)
 
Quetzal is a Registered Marriage Family Therapist Associate. She holds a MS in Clinical Psychology from Cal State East Bay. In addition, Quetzal is a Certified Sex Educator and Yoga & Social Justice Teacher Certification. She is supervised by Patricia E. Craven, LMFT, SEP License#MFC24859