Minds exist in relationships.

01 — The practice

Encountering your mind, mattering to your family.

We are born unto someone, and into a relationship with that someone, even if it is only for a moment. That relationship colors our entire life, and is our first experience of our own mind. The longing to be deeply understood — never fully met — is the sine qua non frustration of the human condition.

How two conscious subjects stay in honest relationship to one another, the whole while never being able to inhabit the other subject's reality yet trying to understand each other — that is the act of courageous loving. I am passionate about the art of helping family members matter to each other in their authentic individuality, and helping individuals wake up to themselves.

I work with families in crisis and in transition, with couples, with parents, and with individuals. The work is slow by design. I keep a small practice so that each family gets the investment this kind of understanding requires.

Individual

$300 · 50 minutes

Family

$400 · 75 minutes

Format

In person & telehealth

Location

Berkeley, California

02 — Writing

Reflections on mind, intersubjectivity, and the human condition.

I publish essays at Meristem, my Substack. My writing offers reflections on the phenomenology of being and the workings of our relationships: to objects and each other. On Practice is a section of Meristem exploring the practice of waking up to our family members, our patients, and ourselves — as we actually are.

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03 — About

Brandon Worden, LMFT

For almost two decades I have helped individuals, families, and their children understand their experience of being. I specialize in working analytically with individuals, with families and children as systems, and have a deep understanding of working with adoption. The human condition is the most fascinating phenomenon in the universe, and I am endlessly invested in deepening my understanding of it, and in helping others do the same. The family is, for all of us, the primary experience of relationship.

My training is psychoanalytic, Jungian, and in family systems. My learning runs through religious traditions, attachment theory, neuroscience, and the continental and Eastern philosophical traditions. I am constantly learning, and continuously finding my limitations through my own experience of relationship in my family and with the gift of my children.

• Psychoanalysis
• Jungian analysis
• Family systems
• Attachment theory
• Neuroscience
• Adoption
• LMFT #99264

04 — Contact

An invitation to engage.

I respond to every inquiry personally, usually within two business days.