Willow Pearson Trimbach, PsyD, LMFT, MT-BC is Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Clinical Psychology Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California. Willow practices psychotherapy in Oakland, California, where she sees adults in person and online in California, Washington, and New York, and she provides consultation and supervision. She is a psychologist, psychotherapist, music therapist, author, singer, and songwriter. Willow’s first book, co-edited with Helen Marlo, is The Spiritual Psyche: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity and Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 2021. Her most recent album, Caesura’s Cry—the eighth album in her music catalogue—was released in July, 2025.

Eva Tuschman Leonard, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and visual artist residing in Northern California. Eva’s first book, Bodywork, is a meditation on illness, grief and desire told through her drawings and written reflections.

Who we are:
meet the authors

Eva Tuschman Leonard, LMFT & Willow Pearson Trimbach, PsyD, LMFT, MT-BC