Dr. Sue Johnson
Emotional connection
Training in Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples, with its emphasis on understanding emotional patterns and building a more secure bond.
About Todd Sarner, MFT
A whole-family perspective.
A dedicated focus on parents.
For 17 years, I have worked exclusively with parents, helping them understand their children, their relationships, and themselves.
Todd Sarner, MFT · Director, Transformative Parenting
How I came to this work
Helping parents became
the heart of my practice.
I began my career intending to work with children. After earning my master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, I worked with children and families in a variety of settings.
Becoming a father led me to ask deeper questions about what children need from us. Those questions brought me to Dr. Gordon Neufeld and an attachment-based understanding of parenting. I spent nearly three years as his intern and later served on the faculty of the Neufeld Institute.
As my work with parents grew, I saw how closely the couple relationship and family life were connected. Training with Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Stan Tatkin helped me expand that work into attachment-based couples counseling.
The foundations of my work
Attachment, across the relationships
that matter most.
Dr. Stan Tatkin
Connection under stress
Years of study in PACT, bringing attachment, the nervous system, and couples regulation into the work.
Dr. Gordon Neufeld
The parent-child relationship
Mentorship, internship, and former Neufeld Institute faculty experience that continue to inform my work with parents.
Transformative Parenting
Support for the parenting
side of family life.
As Director of Transformative Parenting, I offer parent coaching that helps parents strengthen connection, understand behavior, and guide their children with greater confidence.
That experience informs my couples work. It helps me see the relationship in the context of the family you are raising, while keeping our couples sessions focused on the two of you.
Visit Transformative Parenting ↗Rooted in Marin.
Serving the Bay Area.
My practice has deep roots in Mill Valley and Marin County. Today, I work entirely online with parents in Marin County and throughout the Bay Area, including San Francisco, the East Bay, the Peninsula, and Sonoma County.
I am a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, license #47572, listed under my full name, Allan Todd Sarner. I have gone by Todd since childhood.
A place to begin
Let’s see if we’re a good fit.
A separate 20-minute conversation with each partner.