David Fore, LMFT

Summary

I am a psychotherapist, leadership coach, and embodied-awareness teacher. I help individuals, couples, and families deepen presence, clarify purpose, and navigate change with grounded awareness. My approach integrates clinical training with somatic, relational, and contemplative practices to support clients in moving through trauma, transition, and spiritual emergence with clarity and care. Before opening my private practice, I worked as a grief counselor at Pathways Hospice and as a family and couples therapist at Earth Circles Counseling Center in Oakland. I am also a certified yoga teacher and meditation coach, drawing from decades of inner practice to support others in reconnecting with their innate intelligence and emotional truth. Earlier in my career, I worked as a researcher, systems designer, and educator, creating tools in healthcare and environmental management. Much of that work focused on translating complex human needs into practical, often technological, solutions. I eventually co-led a multi-institutional NIH grant to build a pediatric learning health network, with research that continues to inform care innovation today. That chapter taught me a lot about systems—but even more about people. My current work reflects a shift from building tools to holding space: for healing, for insight, and for a deeper alignment with life as it actually is.