Desirée Reitknecht

Desirée Reitknecht MFT is a board-certified psychotherapist providing telehealth in California and New Jersey. She specializes in treating individuals who seek support with Anxiety, Depression, Resolving Relationship Challenges, Fostering Trust and Attunement to your Self, Cultivating Self-Compassion, and Issues related to Sexuality Diversity. Desirée studied at California Institute for Integral Studies and has been licensed for over 23 years. Her treatment approach is rooted in evidence-based practices that focus on the mind-body connection. She has maintained a private practice utilizing Relational Theory and Technique, AEDP, DBT and somatically oriented approaches that have served a foundational role her clients’ success in overcoming mental health challenges.

She brings a warm non-judgmental stance to assist clients how to learn self-analytic and observational skills to evaluate habitual cognitive interpretations and replace them with conscious intentional responses. Desiree’s therapeutic focus is to help her clients develop effective strategies for interpersonal communication, manage distressing emotions, and enhance lateral thinking abilities for creative problem solving and personal development.

Desirée aims for her clients to formulate a cohesive self-narrative to make peace with the past and experience the freedom to envision the future. She is committed to partnering with her clients to design a path forward to transform and increase an overall sense of balance in emotional, mental and physical well-being within in her private practice.

Desirée is an aspiring oneironaut, a parent of three children and a somatic embodiment enthusiast. She is currently completing her Ph.D. coursework at California Institute for Integral Studies in the Transformative Studies Department. Her research interests include the phenomenological and hermeneutic dimensions of elucidating the orbitals of consciousness. She is an avid advocate for displacing human exceptionalism to elevate and advance our ethical responsibility towards the more-than-human co-experients that we share the Earth with.