Current Associates at You Rule Therapy
Supervised by Cynthia Hoffman, LMFT #40736
Meet the Team
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Ryan Dooley
AMFT #143421
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Eliza Dropkin
AMFT #128891
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Alanna McLeod
AMFT #151318
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Stefanie Schlief
AMFT #143422
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Nathalie Tinoco
AMFT #150280
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You Rule Therapy
Harm Reduction Groups
Eliza Dropkin
Eliza Dropkin (she/her)
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #128891
Eliza Dropkin received her MA in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute in October of 2021. She spent two years doing therapy with primarily single mothers (both experiencing homelessness and recently housed) and adolescents at Compass Family Services and YMCA Urban Services. She has co-led anxiety focused therapy groups for both adults and teens.
Eliza works with clients who are struggling with anxiety, compulsive behaviors, life transitions, managing stress, and substance use. She focuses on meeting clients where they are, and utilizes a variety of tools including talk therapy, expressive arts, harm reduction skills, mindfulness, self-compassion, and inner-child reparenting.
Eliza’s style of practice is strengths-based, collaborative, creative, relational and process-oriented. She brings a warm intuitive energy to the therapeutic relationship that helps people feel safe being vulnerable. She grounds herself in kindness, acceptance and compassion while inviting clients into the difficult territory of self-exploration and accountability.
Eliza is dedicated to the ongoing cultivation and practice of cultural humility, antiracism, body positivity, feminism, and lgbtq+ allyship. Her theoretical orientation is integrative and trauma-informed drawing from psychodynamic, relational, family systems, and contemplative psychology supported by mindfulness, expressive arts, internal family systems, and the Grief Recovery Method.
Eliza offers sessions via telehealth and is currently accepting referrals for new clients, including individual adults, couples, families, and female identified and/or non-binary teens (age 13+).
eliza@elizadropkin.com
415-498-0101
Nathalie Tinoco
Nathalie Tinoco (she/her/ella)
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #150280
Nathalie graduated with her MA in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute and is a bilingual clinician.
As a child of Mexican immigrant parents and a gender-fluid individual, Nathalie brings a deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by the Latine community and children of immigrants. Her mission is to provide a safe and supportive space where clients can explore their intersecting identities, navigate life’s complexities, and embrace their authentic selves.
Drawing from psychodynamic theory, attachment theory, narrative therapy, and mindfulness, she works with teens and adults to address a range of emotional and relational concerns. Her approach is grounded in compassion and curiosity, tailored to each client’s unique story and goals.
Nathalie believes the journey toward healing and self-discovery can be challenging but also deeply transformative. She is honored to walk alongside clients on this path.
nathalie@youruletherapy.com
341-203-5649
Alanna McLeod
Alanna McLeod (she/her)
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #151318
Alanna received her MA in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute, and as a native San Franciscan, she keeps her heart in this community.
Alanna brings her particular interest in supporting people in their relationships (with oneself and others) and in working with grief. Her specialized training includes Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, helping partners to understand and communicate about their conflict from an attachment perspective. Prior to You Rule Therapy, Alanna served as a bereavement counselor with Mission Hospice.
Alanna partners with clients who are navigating life transitions—stressful times of loss or change, such as leaving home, a job, or a relationship; starting or blending a family; aging, becoming empty nesters, or retiring, etc.
Her approach is integrative, joining attitudes from existential-humanistic traditions with interventions from trauma-informed, attachment-based psychodynamic theories. She employs the spirit of Motivational Interviewing and Harm Reduction strategies to individualize recovery from substance use.
Alanna’s encouraging relational style emphasizes transparent collaboration. Sessions are enlivened with humor, as she aims to make engaging in therapy approachable—even enjoyable!
Alanna welcomes clients from teens (13+) to older adults, as individuals and couples/dyads (or other relationship configurations). She is currently accepting referrals and is available for both in-person and online sessions.
hello@alannamcleodtherapy.com
415-275-1654
Stefanie Schlief
Stefanie Schlief (she/her)
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #143422
Stefanie completed her MA in Counseling Psychology at The Wright Institute, and believes deeply in the principles of harm reduction. She uses this as a framework to help clients work through their relationships with substances and sexual health.
Stefanie has experience treating PTSD and trauma-related disorders, sexual assault and abuse, depression and anxiety, love, sex, and intimacy concerns, and more. Her practice is trauma informed, sex positive, empowerment based, and welcomes all identities across the gender and sexuality spectrum.
She pulls from her knowledge of narrative therapy, DBT and CBT, emotion-focused therapy, Motivational Interviewing, somatic therapy, and expressive art therapy as tools for treatment.
Stefanie is currently taking referrals for both teens and adults, individuals and couples; and invites clients of all different backgrounds and lifestyles into her sessions with non-judgement and compassion.
She offers sessions both in-person and virtually.
sschlief@wi.edu
Ryan Dooley
Ryan Dooley (he/him)
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #143421
Ryan completed his MA in Counseling Psychology at The Wright Institute and is excited to see clients in the Bay Area. He works primarily with queer/gay folx, both individually and in relationships, and often explores issues of sex (from kink to OCSB to pleasure), gender, identity, non-monogamy and polyamory, substance use, anxiety, and grief.
Ryan also enjoys working with teenagers and recognizes the need for early intervention and support with that developmental age. His approach incorporates harm reduction, antiracist, and trauma-informed lenses, and his style is person-centered and relational. He makes strategic use of interventions from many modalities and customizes treatment for each and every person. Ryan’s calm and warm approach is a safe space for clients to heal and grow.
Ryan is currently taking referrals both in-person and virtually.
ryan@ryanbdooley.com
Past Associates
Darcy Dittrich, LMFT
Darcy Dittrich joined You Rule Therapy at the end of 2020, working under the supervision of Cynthia Hoffman until she was licensed in 2023. She earned her MA in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute.
Darcy completed her clinical internship at SF AIDS Foundation’s The Stonewall Project, a counseling program dedicated to providing harm reduction-based substance use and mental health treatment to gay, bi and trans men who have sex with men (MSM), who are interested in addressing their drug or alcohol use. She also works at a private practice in Oakland focusing on children, adolescents and families. Prior to her counseling career, Darcy worked at startups and Fortune 500s for a decade.
Darcy endeavors to bring warmth, awareness, and connection to her counseling sessions. She co-creates a unique healing experience with clients, often using humor and creativity to encourage mindfulness, self-compassion, and change. She believes firmly that healing is non-linear, and absolutely that it is possible. Darcy’s colleagues have described her as “compassionate, deep-feeling, inquisitive and intuitive.”
Darcy pursues antiracism, feminism, Harm Reduction, Health at Every Size (HAES), LGBTQ+ allyship, and disability justice. She has lived experience navigating intuitive eating, multicultural relationships, chronic pain, and work stress.
She is currently accepting referrals for individuals and couples.
darcy@darcydittrich.com
Leora Lerba, LMFT
Leora Lerba was an associate with Cynthia Hoffman and You Rule Therapy from 2019 through 2021. Originally from Australia, she graduated from the University of San Francisco’s Counseling Psychology program in 2017.
Leora approaches the world with a sense of wonder and curiosity, and values each person’s unique and interesting perspective on the world.
She has worked in public health and private practice settings with both couples and individuals with a focus on using Harm Reduction.
Leora works from a collaborative, solution-focused approach with couples from different cultures, genders and sexualities. She focuses on relationships: with self, with others, and with the world we live in. She uses integrative techniques to individually tailor treatment for each person and setting.
therapy@leoralerba.com
