For when it’s too much to hold alone
Therapy in San Francisco
For Individual Adults and Couples In-Person and Online in California
Engaged, depth-oriented psychotherapy
A place where overwhelming experiences can be held with care, thought through together, and gradually transformed into something more livable.
Depth-oriented therapy that takes you seriously
At Amphora Psychotherapy, we believe emotional suffering cannot be reduced to a checklist of symptoms and that meaningful change be cannot be rushed. People often come to therapy because something in their inner life or relationships has become too painful, confusing, or constricted to bear alone.
We begin with an assumption that goes against the current. Symptoms make sense. They are not just problems to be eliminated or managed away. They are shaped by history, relationships, and unconscious experience. Understanding them requires time, curiosity, and a living human relationship.
We are a group of therapists who came together around a shared conviction: the relationship between you and your therapist is the engine of change. It is through being known over time, even through moments of misunderstanding, repair, and emotional truth, that lasting transformation becomes possible.
The relationship with your therapist matters.
We listen carefully and in depth, over time, with consistency and attention. We listen not only to what you say in words, but to what is difficult to say; to what shows up emotionally and in the body; and to what unfolds between us in the room. We take seriously both what you already know about yourself and what may not yet be fully visible.
Therapy, as we understand it, provides a secure base: a steady, reliable relationship that can hold what arises, including the highs, the lows, the storms, and the impasses. This steadiness is not passive. Your therapist is actively engaged. They are responsive, attentive, and willing to think and feel alongside you. Your frustrations, confusions, and longings matter here.
Therapy provides a secure base that can hold what arises.
Building New Capacities
We attend to the patterns beneath the immediate distress, and to the ways of coping and relating that once made sense but may now limit vitality.
Over time, this work helps build emotional capacity, resilience, and a renewed sense of freedom. It can develop the ability to feel more whole, more real, and better able to meet the complexity of being human.
We offer psychotherapy to adults and couples in the San Francisco Bay Area and online throughout California. Currently, we offer therapy in English and French.
Why “Amphora”?
An amphora is a vessel used to hold, preserve, and transform. We use this image to describe the therapeutic relationship itself: a space that is strong enough to hold what feels overwhelming, secure enough to explore what has been avoided, and steady enough to support lasting psychological growth.
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
What We Offer
Individual therapy for adults experiencing anxiety, depression, life transitions, identity questions, and longstanding emotional patterns
Couples therapy for partners seeking to repair trust, improve communication, or deepen their relationship
Intensive depth psychotherapy for people seeking a more immersive and sustained therapy experience
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) for people interested in a different entry point into or augmentation of deep emotional work
Consultation and groups for therapists, including psychoanalytic supervision and peer community
Our Way of Working
Rather than relying on formulas or techniques alone, we emphasize careful listening, emotional presence, and collaboration over time. We work at a pace that allows meaning and change to emerge, neither rushed toward a predetermined outcome nor aimless.
This approach is often especially helpful for people who have found that surface-level solutions haven't addressed the deeper issues they're living with.
We are inclusive and welcoming across race, culture, gender identity, sexuality, and relationship structure. Each therapist attends thoughtfully to both similarity and difference, recognizing how identity, power, and context shape emotional life and the therapy itself.
Areas of Focus
Depression Depression isn't always dramatic. Sometimes it shows up as flatness, withdrawal, or a quiet loss of interest in things that used to matter. We work to understand what depression is protecting against or expressing, not just to manage it away.
Anxiety Anxiety often carries information. This can be about pressure you're under, needs that aren't being met, or conflicts you haven't yet been able to face. Therapy helps you understand what's driving it so it doesn't have to run the show.
Trauma, Dissociation & Numbness Trauma doesn't always look like a single event. It can show up as numbness, disconnection, difficulty trusting, or a sense that part of your life is missing. We work carefully and at your pace to help what's been frozen begin to thaw.
Chronic Pain & Illness Living with ongoing pain or illness affects every part of life. It impacts your sense of self, your relationships, your future. Therapy provides a space for the grief and frustration that medicine alone can't address, and can help restore a sense of agency.
Fertility, Pregnancy & Postpartum The path to parenthood is often far more complicated, emotionally and physically, than anyone prepares you for. We offer support through infertility, pregnancy loss, difficult births, and the disorienting intensity of postpartum life.
Our Team
Stéphanie Gay Moss, PsyD.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Co-Founder, Amphora Psychotherapy
(she/her)
"My work is grounded in the understanding that emotional growth unfolds between people, especially in the nuanced dynamics that emerge between therapist and client. A bicultural, multilingual immigrant and French native, my style is warm, receptive, personal, and down-to-earth. My background informs how I listen to individual psychology and to the ways culture, language, power, gender, sexuality, and identity shape experience."
Services Offered
Psychotherapy
Couples Therapy
Intensive Psychotherapy
Consultation
Areas of Focus
Fertility, Pregnancy & Post-partum
Depression
Anxiety
Trauma
"People often come to me when something feels entrenched. These can be ways that anxiety, depression, conflict in relationships, or a sense of stuckness persists despite effort, insight, or prior therapy. My work is oriented toward both relief and understanding of the deeper structures beneath these experiences so that change can take root at a more fundamental level…"
Services Offered
Psychotherapy
Couples Therapy
Intensive Psychotherapy
Consultation & Supervision
Areas of Focus
Chronic Pain & Illness
Depression
Anxiety
Trauma
“I work with adults, couples, and families navigating the lasting effects of complex trauma, particularly those who grew up in immigrant families, cross-cultural environments, or communities where survival required disconnecting from emotional life. My approach is depth-oriented and psychoanalytically informed, with particular attention to how culture, identity, and intergenerational history shape the way we experience ourselves and our relationships.”
Services Offered
Psychotherapy
Couples Therapy
Family Therapy
Areas of Focus
Complex Trauma
Depression
Anxiety
"My work is depth-oriented, psychodynamic, and grounded in the belief that the therapeutic relationship is where real change happens. I value your multiplicity, aim to meet you where you are, and help you make sense of your experience. My intention is to create a mindful, collaborative, and affirming space, one in which all parts of you feel welcomed and valued..."
Services Offered
Psychotherapy
Couples Therapy
Areas of Focus
Depression
Anxiety
Grief and Loss
Trauma
“I believe that the body and the present moment carry some of the most vital information for healing. Together we may draw on approaches such as EMDR, Generative Somatics, and mindfulness-based practices, while also attending to the deeper roots of pain in family, ancestry, and history. My work is kink-, gender-, and poly-affirming, and I hold awareness of the broader cultural, ecological, and political systems that shape our lives and struggles.
Services Offered
Psychotherapy
Couples Therapy
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
Areas of Focus
Depression
Anxiety
Chronic Pain & Illness
Trauma
LGBTQ+ Concerns
Ready to Begin?
Reaching out is the first step toward change. We know it can feel daunting, but beginning with a simple message is enough.
Please use the form below to let us know a little about yourself. You don’t need to share details of your history here. Those conversations happen directly in an initial consultation and in session.
Our Locations
Amphora Psychotherapy offers therapy in:
San Francisco (Lower Pac Heights, Cow Hollow)
East Bay (Oakland)
Online throughout California
Next Steps
Once we receive your message, one of our clinicians will be in touch to schedule an initial consultation. This is a chance for you to share what’s bringing you to therapy, ask any questions you may have, and get a sense of whether our approach feels like the right fit for you.