David Brown

David Brown is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in San Francisco, whose work is grounded in psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, and Jungian approaches. He is drawn to the deeper layers of experience that shape how people relate to themselves and others, operating from the conviction that what people say and what they mean are often different things, and that the space between those two is where the most important work happens.

His practice serves individuals and couples, with particular expertise working with LGBTQ+ communities, men navigating emotional life, and people exploring ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. He brings specialized training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, integrating the therapeutic potential of ketamine with depth-oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy for treatment-resistant conditions. Rather than treating KAP as a standalone protocol, he brings authentic psychoanalytic and Jungian depth to this work.

Many of his patients are high-achieving professionals — doctors, engineers, writers, and analysts — people for whom the mind is both their greatest asset and their most relentless adversary. They come having tried other approaches, looking not for coping strategies but for genuine understanding of why certain patterns keep repeating. His approach is slow, exploratory, and oriented toward the examined life rather than symptom management.

In session, David is warm but direct. He reflects back what he notices, asks questions that go deeper, and sits with patients in difficult moments rather than rushing past them. He is licensed in six states — California, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Missouri, and Utah — enabling broad telehealth reach across the country.