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I'm Hyunjoo Yoon, a licensed marriage and family therapist in San Francisco. I work with parents, teens and children when a family is going through a change: a new stepfamily, a separation, or the care of an aging parent.

I look at what happens between people in a family, not at who is to blame. Sessions can be the whole family, a parent on their own or a teen on their own, and I explain what stays private before anyone says a word.

I keep the pace slow enough for the youngest person in the room. You will not be asked to take sides, and nobody is made to talk.

“A family doesn't have to agree on what is wrong to begin. It only has to sit in the same room.”

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California

  • Works with parents, teens and children

  • Sessions for the whole family or one person

  • In person in San Francisco

  • Families

    Blended, divorcing and caregiving

  • Teens

    And their parents, together or apart

Hyunjoo Yoon

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

A smiling woman in a black suit holds a red folder in a yellow armchair

“What I noticed first was the pace. Nobody was in a hurry, and nobody had to perform.”

Yasser H.Parent

Sample reviews.

  • 50 min

    Parent or teen session

  • 75 min

    Whole-family session

  • Until 7 p.m.

    Monday to Thursday

  • In person

    At the San Francisco office

My approach.

A few ways of working, always chosen with the family.

  1. 01

    Step 1: Family systems therapy

    We look at the patterns between people: who talks to whom, who goes quiet, who carries the load. Then we try small changes in those patterns.

  2. 02

    Step 2: Attachment-informed work

    Parents and children are often trying to reach each other and missing. We slow down and look at what each one is reaching for.

  3. 03

    Step 3: Play and drawing with younger children

    Younger children often show what they cannot say. We use play and drawing, with a parent in the room.

  4. 04

    Step 4: Separate time for each person

    Where it helps, each person has a session of their own, so no one has to speak in front of the person they are worried about.

Your clinician

Who you would see

  • Hyunjoo Yoon

    Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

    • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · CA Lic. 000000Verify

    Sees parents, teens and children, together or one at a time, in person in San Francisco and by video for clients who are in California. Explains what stays private before the first session.