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The person behind the practice

LIBBY COUFAL, LCSW

Libby Coufal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing remote therapy for adults across California.

Her work centers on anxiety, early attachment and relational trauma, and the emotional complexity that often emerges during periods of life transition.

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The values that shape the work

Many people learn early how to be capable, responsible, and emotionally aware. Those strengths often come with hidden costs: pressure, over-functioning, and difficulty slowing down.

This work exists to help clients understand those patterns more clearly and begin relating to themselves differently.

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ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Libby Coufal, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Founder, Coufal & Co.

Libby Coufal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the founder of Coufal & Co., a psychotherapy practice dedicated to supporting individuals through life’s most meaningful transitions. Born and raised in California, Libby developed an early appreciation for the emotional complexity of relationships, family dynamics, and the environments that shape who we become.

She received her BA in Psychology and Education before completing her Masters Degree in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. There, she developed a strong foundation in relational, trauma-informed, and attachment-focused therapy. Her studies at UC Berkeley reinforced Libby’s deep commitment to providing therapeutic care rooted in cultural humility and emotional safety for all clients.

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Over the years, Libby has worked closely with young adults and professionals navigating anxiety, identity shifts, relationship challenges, and major life changes. Her work often centers on people who have spent much of their lives caring for others or adapting to difficult environments - and who are now beginning to ask what a more authentic, aligned life might look like.

Libby is particularly drawn to supporting clients during moments of transition: entering adulthood, navigating relationship changes, career shifts, or stepping into early motherhood and parenthood. These experiences often bring long-standing patterns to the surface, offering an opportunity to better understand the past while building new ways of relating to oneself and others.

Her therapeutic approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms or diagnoses, Libby works with clients to explore the deeper relational patterns and nervous system responses that shape their daily lives. Together, the goal is not only insight, but meaningful and sustainable change.

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Libby founded Coufal & Co. with the intention of creating a practice that reflects the kind of care she believes in most - thoughtful, human, and deeply respectful of the trust clients place in the therapeutic relationship. She approaches her work with humility and care, recognizing that each person who enters therapy brings their own expertise, history, and resilience.

Outside of her clinical work, Libby finds grounding in the natural world - particularly near the ocean or on long hikes through California’s coast. She has also trained in equine-assisted psychotherapy, an experiential and somatic modality that deepened her appreciation for the ways healing can occur both within and beyond the traditional therapy room.

Today, Libby provides remote psychotherapy to clients throughout California, creating a space where people can slow down, reflect, and reconnect with themselves during life’s most important moments of change.

Libby Coufal, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in California. Her training focuses on trauma-informed relational therapy, attachment theory, and the emotional shifts that occur during major life transitions, including early parenthood.

Libby has received extensive training and supervision in psychodynamic and attachment-informed therapy, while also integrating CBT, DBT, and ACT into her work. She draws from somatic and parts-informed approaches to further deepen the therapeutic experience.

Currently, she is in the process of obtaining her PMH-C through Postpartum Support International, following multiple years of training and direct clinical experience supporting perinatal clients through identity shifts, relationship changes, and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs).

She is also engaged in ongoing training in ERP for the treatment of OCD, as well as continuing to deepen her expertise in helping clients identify and manage previously undiagnosed ADHD. Libby’s clinical lens is consistently trauma-informed and shaped by her background in equine-assisted psychotherapy — a somatic and experiential modality that was a central focus of her early training as a therapist.

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Professional Training and Licensure

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The way therapy is understood here

Therapy is not about fixing people. It is about understanding how certain patterns developed, what they once protected, and whether they still serve the life you are trying to build now.

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