Meet Our Clinicians
Cindy Jepsen, LMFT
Founder & Clinical Director
I work with individuals, couples, and families, including parents navigating separation, divorce, and co-parenting. Patients often come to therapy knowing something in their life isn’t working, but not always understanding why. You may find yourself repeating familiar conflicts, making choices you don’t fully understand, or struggling with feelings that are hard to move beyond.
My way of working is to look beyond the surface and understand you as a whole person, including your experiences, relationships, longings, fears, and the ways you have learned to protect yourself. As we get to know one another, we become curious about patterns that may be shaping your life outside your awareness. These patterns can also emerge between us in how it feels to trust, be known, disagree, or share something vulnerable. Paying attention to these moments can help us understand parts of you that may be difficult to see on your own.
With couples, I focus less on who is right or wrong and more on understanding what keeps recurring between you. With families and co-parents, I help parents understand what pulls them into conflict and find different ways to respond while keeping children out of the middle. My hope is that, through the relationship, you come to feel more known and understood, discover more of who you are, and find greater freedom to live and connect with others in ways that feel truly authentic to you.
Paulette Ove, AMFT
I believe people seek therapy for relief and to be understood more deeply. Grounded in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thought, I listen for how early relationships, attachment, trauma, and unconscious patterns shape the present. I view the therapeutic relationship as central to healing—a compassionate space where feelings, protective strategies, and repeating patterns can become known.
My transpersonal psychology education and life experience has taught me that people are more than their symptoms or histories, and I am constantly awestruck by the resiliency of the human spirit. When meaningful to clients, our work may include dreams, spirituality, mindfulness, and the search for meaning. My clinical foundation includes a three-year postgraduate psychodynamic internship. My graduate degrees and decades of prior work in education instilled in me a developmental perspective—an awareness that every stage of life brings distinct needs, challenges, and possibilities. I work collaboratively with youth, adults across the lifespan, and couples as they navigate identity development, relationships, and life transitions and seek greater freedom, connection, authenticity, and lasting change.
Paulette Ove, AMFT
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Registration No. AMFT 149629
Employed by Cinssa Counseling Center
Supervised by a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Anne Johnson, AMFT
I see therapy as a safe place to be supported in exploring and expressing whatever brings you to therapy. By sitting and noticing what is present in the moment, we discover what is alive for you and what needs care and attention. I approach this work with humility and reverence for the complexity of being human. My goal is to help you develop a more compassionate and intimate relationship with yourself so that you can move through your life and relationships with greater freedom and authenticity.
My therapeutic approach developed from healing and training in relational gestalt practice at Esalen Institute, psychodynamic psychotherapy training at The Wright Institute and somatic practices of meditation and yoga.
Anne Johnson, AMFT
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Registration No. AMFT 160433
Employed by Cinssa Counseling Center
Supervised by a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Andrew Merit, AMFT
I don't think therapy is primarily about fixing what's wrong with you. I'm interested in exploring with you how you came to be who you are—including the patterns, roles, and ways of protecting yourself that may once have been necessary but no longer serve you as well.
I tend to be active, curious, and engaged. We'll pay attention to your history and the relationships that shaped you, but also to what's happening right now—including what develops between us. Therapy gives us an unusual opportunity to notice familiar patterns as they happen and become curious about what might be possible instead.
I believe insight matters, but experience matters too. Change can come from understanding ourselves more deeply and from having opportunities to try something different: expressing something we've held back, tolerating uncertainty, discovering a new response, or relating to another person in a way that doesn't follow the old script.
Andrew Merit, AMFT
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Registration No. AMFT 160055
Employed by Cinssa Counseling Center
Supervised by a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Sarah Buscho, Intern Therapist
Most people come to therapy because something that used to work has stopped working. Often our life patterns were shaped long ago, in early relationships or events. We find ourselves inside versions of the same relationship, or dynamics in life that feel oddly familiar, reacting to things we understand intellectually, but cannot seem to change.
My style is warm and engaged. What unfolds between us illuminates how you approach closeness, trust, dependence, misunderstandings, and being known. I listen deeply and attune to both what you share, and what surfaces beneath the words. We can explore your history or current life. Feeling met and witnessed is part of what makes change possible. As does bringing awareness to the beliefs and feelings driving your experience, and your understandable adaptations that once kept you safe, but now keep you stuck. In the process parts of you become more accessible. Patterns that had felt like fate begin to loosen, creating more choices. The aim isn't just insight, it is the freedom to respond to your life rather than repeat it.
My clients are adults across identities and life stages, as well as families, children, and teens. I'm especially drawn to attachment and relational dynamics, anxiety, trauma that lives in the body as much as in memory, and grief work. Some of my clients have been in therapy for years; others are coming for the first time and aren't sure what to expect. Both are welcome.
I see clients via telehealth throughout California and in person in Marin. With a vision for building something meaningful, our founder brings a blend of big-picture thinking and hands-on experience. They set the tone for everything we do.
Sarah Buscho, Intern Therapist
Employed by Cinssa Counseling Center
Supervised by a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist