Men's therapy for the San Francisco Bay Area. Jon Holmes, LMFT offers virtual therapy for high-achieving Bay Area men — tech executives, founders, physicians, attorneys, and leaders navigating burnout, trauma, identity, and the particular pressures of life in one of the world's most demanding professional environments.
The Bay Area produces a particular kind of pressure.
There is a specific wound that forms in high-performance environments: the belief that your worth is identical to your output. In Silicon Valley and the broader Bay Area, that belief is not just tolerated — it is celebrated. The men who come to therapy from this world are not failing. They are succeeding at a cost they have never been allowed to name.
The founder who cannot stop working even when the company is doing well. The engineering director who is technically brilliant and emotionally unavailable to his family. The physician at UCSF who holds everyone else's crisis together and has no one to hold his. These are the men I work with.
Virtual therapy that travels with your schedule.
Virtual therapy removes the barrier that keeps most Bay Area men from doing the work they know they need: time. No commute to an office. No gap in the calendar that colleagues can see. Sessions happen from your home, your car, your hotel room in New York. The work is the same. The format is built for the life you actually have.
Life Telling Processing
Life Telling Processing is not a protocol. It is a way of following the story underneath the struggle — gathering the fragmented pieces of a man's narrative and arranging them into a picture that is whole, honest, and genuinely his. The work draws on narrative therapy, Jungian archetypal psychology, contemplative practice, and twenty years of clinical experience with high-achieving men.
Does Jon Holmes work with Bay Area clients?
Yes. Virtual therapy is available to any man who currently resides in California, including throughout the San Francisco Bay Area — San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Marin County, Contra Costa County, Alameda County, and the surrounding communities.
Jon Holmes, LMFT. California License MFC 45850. Virtual: throughout California. In-person: 7996 Old Winding Way, Suite 210, Fair Oaks, CA 95628. Phone: 916-534-8244.