APD & Sound Sensitivity Experts for San Francisco.
If you're in San Francisco or anywhere in the Bay Area and tinnitus, sound sensitivity, or auditory processing disorder is getting in the way of work and life, specialist care can fit into your day instead of taking it over. Auditory Pathway is telehealth-first, requires no referral, and brings focused care directly to your home.
What Most Audiology Clinics Aren't Built For
Open-plan offices, packed restaurants, and constant city noise can be exhausting for anyone in San Francisco living with APD, tinnitus, misophonia, or hyperacusis. Plenty of adults here are told their hearing is normal and assume that's the end of it. Most audiology clinics in the city, and across Oakland, Berkeley, and the Peninsula, focus on hearing aids and routine testing, not the conditions that make a busy meeting or a loud dinner feel impossible. Auditory Pathway is licensed across California and offers comprehensive evaluations, CBT-based management, and Buffalo Model auditory training over telehealth, around your schedule.
No Waitlist
No referral queue to wait in. Book directly and start specialist care over telehealth.
0 Commute
No BART transfers or parking hunts. Sessions run from home, scheduled around your workday.
100%
Of clinical time focused on tinnitus, sound sensitivity, and APD, not fit in between hearing aid fittings.
Five specialized pathways
for the conditions
most clinics overlook.
Every program begins with a real evaluation, and not a five-minute screen. Each links to a dedicated page where you can explore what to expect, how it works, and what it costs.
From clinic frustration to a practice that actually listens.
For most of her clinical career, Dr. Kaitlyn Lepore watched the same scene repeat itself. A patient walks in describing real, life-altering symptoms, such as a ringing that won't stop, sounds that feel physically painful, conversations that scramble in noisy rooms. The hearing test runs for ten minutes, the audiogram comes back roughly normal, and the patient is sent home with nothing more than "there's nothing more we can do."
“The line we kept giving people was that the test was clear, so there wasn’t much to do. That was never true. We just weren’t set up to test the right thing or to spend the time treating it.” — Dr. Lepore
Auditory Pathway was built on the understanding that hearing healthcare is about more than devices, and that too many people are living with conditions that can be genuinely improved. It was built to be the practice that appointment should have led to. Because the patients sent home with nothing weren't out of options. They were just in the wrong room.
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