Gottman Method couples therapy on Kettner Boulevard in downtown San Diego's Little Italy is the clinical anchor at Free Mind Marriage and Family Therapy, incorporated in California in 2024. The LCSW-led practice layers Gottman assessment protocols with CBT and DBT techniques for couples navigating conflict, communication breakdown, and substance use recovery, addressing the same PTSD and trauma presentations managed pharmacologically by Psychiatry and Counseling San Diego elsewhere downtown. French-language therapy sessions expand clinical access for Francophone clients across San Diego County. Individual treatment tracks for PTSD employ evidence-based exposure and cognitive processing frameworks, with somatic stress patterns sometimes addressed through bodywork at Mellow Massage downtown. Highest-complexity cases involve couples presenting with co-occurring substance use disorders and relational trauma, requiring simultaneous Gottman intervention sequencing and individual trauma-processing protocols across parallel treatment tracks.