Dr. Nathanial Hinerman

Dr. Nathanial Hinerman is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in California with 25 years of clinical practice. He holds an LMFT license and brings an interdisciplinary academic background, including a PhD in Philosophy of Religion under Huston Smith at Berkeley, GTU, and a second PhD in Evolutionary Psychology. His work spans a broad set of presenting concerns, from stress, anxiety, and depression to relationship challenges, grief, addictions, and issues related to identity and intimacy.

His clinical focus includes both common and complex patterns such as attachment difficulties, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and trauma and abuse. He integrates multiple clinical approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, and client-centered practice to tailor work to each person’s needs.

Outside of clinical practice he balances professional life with family and community roles. He is a widower and a single father to twin teenage daughters and is active as a distance runner in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood. He maintains a specialty focus with gifted teens and young adults and has experience supporting people who live in the public eye.