San Diego, CA
Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Grounded in Clinical Expertise
San Diego Mindfulness Center is a therapy practice serving individuals, couples, and families throughout San Diego. Our licensed clinicians integrate evidence-informed, mindfulness-based approaches into individual, couples, family, and child therapy, helping clients build lasting skills for managing anxiety, depression, relationship stress, and life transitions.
A Therapy Practice Rooted in the Heart of San Diego
Based in Bankers Hill with a second location in Carmel Valley, San Diego Mindfulness Center serves clients throughout Hillcrest, Mission Hills, North Park, South Park, Golden Hill, and Downtown San Diego. Our team of licensed therapists, associate marriage and family therapists, and life coaches specializes in mindfulness-based interventions: an evidence-informed approach that helps clients understand the patterns of thought and behavior that drive distress, and build new, healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
We work with individuals, couples, families, adolescents, and children, offering everything from weekly outpatient therapy to intensive treatment programs, psychological assessments, and parent education. Whether you're seeking support for yourself, a loved one, or a patient or student you're concerned about, our clinicians are here to help.
Clinical Services
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Individual Therapy
Support for anxiety, depression, life transitions, and emotional overwhelm, using mindfulness-based, cognitive-behavioral, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches tailored to you.
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Couples Therapy
Guidance through communication breakdowns, conflict, infidelity, and major life transitions, helping partners reconnect and move forward together.
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Family Counseling
Support for the whole family system through conflict, major transitions, grief, and old wounds, including work with multi-generational families and parent-child pairs.
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Child & Adolescent Therapy
Play-based, expressive, and talk therapy for children and teens facing anxiety, school stress, bullying, grief, or family transitions, with family involvement built into treatment.
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Psychological & Neuropsychological Assessment
Comprehensive testing for ADHD, learning differences, and neurocognitive concerns, helping patients, families, and providers make informed treatment and academic decisions.
Coaching & Consulting (non-clinical)
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Organizational Consulting
Executive coaching and leadership advising for founders and teams, drawing on organizational psychology to strengthen alignment between people and strategy.
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Life Coaching
One-on-one coaching for creativity, identity, grief, and life transitions. A supportive, mindfulness-informed complement to therapy, distinct from clinical treatment.
For Referring Providers
If you're a physician, therapist, or school counselor considering a referral, we want to make that process simple. Our clinicians bring a range of specialties, including CBT, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and trauma-informed and gender-affirming care, and we offer in-house psychological and neuropsychological assessment.
Two Locations, Serving San Diego
San Diego Mindfulness Center has offices in Bankers Hill and Carmel Valley, giving clients across the county convenient access to care. Our Bankers Hill office serves clients throughout Bankers Hill, Mission Hills, North Park, South Park, Golden Hill, and Downtown San Diego. Our Carmel Valley office, led by Dr. Lorena Brenner, extends that same care to San Diego's North County communities.
Bankers Hill Office
3368 2nd Ave, Suite D, San Diego, CA 92103 · 619-289-7450
Carmel Valley Office
2262 Carmel Valley Road, Suite D, San Diego, CA 92014 · Dr. Lorena Brenner
A Team of Licensed Clinicians
Our clinicians hold licensure as clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists, with specialties spanning CBT, Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodynamic and existential approaches, trauma-informed care, and neuropsychological assessment. Several team members bring specialized backgrounds in maternal mental health, LGBTQIA+ and gender-affirming care, and pediatric neuropsychology.
Additional Offerings
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Samsara Intensive Therapy
An intensive outpatient program for clients navigating recovery, offering focused, structured support with less disruption to daily life than residential treatment.
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Mindful Parenting Workshops
Group workshops that give parents practical, mindfulness-based tools for navigating conflict, communication, and connection at home.
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Shrinksrap Podcast
Conversations with clinicians and thought leaders on mental health, healing, and personal growth, hosted by our team.