Camilla Ford, LMFT

Camilla Ford is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of clinical experience supporting individuals, children, couples, and families through difficult transitions and periods of growth. She combines compassionate listening, steady presence, and practical guidance to help people who are in crisis, navigating change, or seeking greater clarity, connection, and well-being. She is a Stanford graduate and holds a Master of Arts in Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, credentials that inform her thoughtful, client-focused practice.

Her clinical background spans day treatment programs, school and hospital settings, and private practice, giving her a broad perspective on mental health needs across the lifespan. Camilla emphasizes a humanistic, person-centered approach that centers on clients strengths and innate capacity for healing. She describes her work as collaborative - partnering with each person to uncover creative solutions to presenting concerns while drawing on therapeutic influences from Carl Rogers, Virginia Satir, and Murray Bowen.

Clients can expect an empathetic, strengths-based clinician who honors the courage it takes to seek help and who aims to support people in living well and finding greater happiness. She treats communications as personal and offers supportive care for a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, parenting, trauma, mood concerns, and life transitions.

Person-Centered and Systems-Informed Care Online

Camilla Ford blends person-centered therapy with family systems perspectives to address both individual struggles and relational patterns. Person-centered therapy focuses on empathic listening and supporting a person’s own capacity for growth, which can be helpful for issues like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Family systems approaches, informed by Murray Bowen and Virginia Satir, explore how family dynamics and communication affect wellbeing and are useful for relationship, parenting, and family concerns.

Her collaborative, strengths-based style means finding the right therapeutic approach is a shared process. Camilla works with each person to identify goals and preferences and adjusts methods as needed so therapy reflects the client’s needs and values rather than a fixed protocol.

Online therapy options - including video sessions, phone calls, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit care into a busy life and to connect from different locations within California. These flexible formats support ongoing access to licensed professionals and allow therapy to continue through transitions, scheduling challenges, or when in-person visits are not practical.