About Our East Bay Therapists
in Dublin, CA
Allie Kaelin, AMFT, APCC
Allie is supervised by Mackenzie Sodestrom, LMFT.
Allie Kaelin, AMFT, APCC is a therapist in Dublin, CA that specializes in helping teenagers and young adult women find their confidence. She provides therapy for teeangers navigating the struggles of anxiety, depression, and self-esteem; individual therapy for young adult women wanting to increase their confidence and learning to set boundaries; and couples therapy for relationships that need a tune up.
In therapy, Allie is both warm and direct, helping clients connect to their own power and build on the internal strengths that we sometimes forget to see in ourselves when we get clouded with depression, anxiety and low self-worth. She uses strengths-based approaches to help clients create meaningful change toward their counseling goals. She loves celebrating when a client come back to session more in touch with their self-worth, able to hold a boundary for the first time, take up space in relationships, and moving towards healthier relationships when they previously didn’t know what that really looked like.
Allie loves using strengths based approaches to help her clients build on their own abilities to make concrete and meaningful change in their lives through therapy.
Allie is temporarily supervised by Danielle Fitch, LMFT beginning in February
Mackenzie Sodestrom, LMFT
You don’t want a therapist that just nods & “mhmms” while you talk. You want someone that really gets you, gives concrete feedback, and helps you make the changes you want to see.
I’m is a little sassy, use a lot of humor, and will inevitably swear in sessions. Consider me your fellow journeyer, hope holder, and joy discoverer. I believe that if we’re successful, I’ll eventually work myself out of a job. That means our therapy sessions keep our initial goals in mind, and we’ll check in on our progress together to get you closer to the life you want.
I pair insight with practical tools, offering both compassion & straightforward feedback. We’ll laugh together quite a bit along the way. I’m a big believer in finding ways to reclaim joy in your daily life, and we’ll do the same in our therapy together.
I use a variety of evidence-based approaches to help my clients make change in their life. I teach practical, effective tools that help you better manage your feelings & relationships outside of sessions. I love using Internal Family System (parts work) to instill deeper self-compassion and gently create change from stubbornly held patterns. I utilize EMDR to heal the ways past traumatic experiences interrupt your life now.
Mackenzie is on family leave February - June
Professional Background & Trainings:
Allie Kaelin, AMFT, APCC
MA in Counseling - St. Mary’s College of California
BA - St. Mary’s College of California
Professional Interests include furthering my education and experience with teens and topics including suicide prevention, disordered eating, and incorporating animals into therapy
Mackenzie Sodestrom, LMFT
EMDR Level II
Completed Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model Training through the Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists
MA Marriage & Family Therapy + Addiction Studies Certificate - Western Seminary San Jose
BA Psychology - Biola University
