Ryan Thurwachter, LCSW, MSW(He/Him/His)

Ryan Thurwachter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Menlo Park, California who works with professionals whose lives look successful from the outside and feel unsettled from the inside. His clients are often intelligent, self-aware people who have spent years trying to think their way through anxiety, a voice that tells them they're not as good as people think, or patterns in their relationships that keep repeating. Many have seen other therapists before, good ones, where something was missing and they couldn't name exactly what.

Ryan specializes in Internal Family Systems therapy, a model that understands the mind as made up of multiple parts, each shaped by its own history and its own way of trying to protect the person. IFS treats the anxiety that won't quiet down, the voice that says nothing you do is quite good enough, and the way you shut down when conversations matter most as parts that developed for good reasons and respond very differently when they feel understood than when they're pushed past. Clients consistently describe understanding themselves in a way they haven't before.

Ryan is a Level 2 trained IFS therapist through the IFS Institute and holds specialized training in grief through the Columbia Center for Prolonged Grief. His clinical work also addresses trauma, burnout, and imposter syndrome.

Ryan sees clients at his Menlo Park office near the Palo Alto border, and virtually across California and New Jersey. His fee is $250 per session, with a free 15-minute consultation for new clients.