Your healing radiates out to benefit everyone around you.
Hi, I'm Katrina (they/them/elle).
I believe that you deserve to live a life free of guilt & full of purpose, connection, & joy.
I know the confusion of feeling like you’re never doing enough…
…while also feeling overwhelmed with everything you are doing.
I used to feel paralyzed with anxiety, growing up as a multi-ethnic and "weird" kid around people who made fun of the ways I didn't fit in. I felt unable to make the relationships or differences in the world that I desperately wanted to. In my 20s, around the time I ended up with an unexpected disability, I started therapy to finally heal these old feelings of unworthiness and figure out what was next for me.
Over time, therapy helped transform my life - showed me how to be kinder to myself, how my sensitivity and idiosyncrasies were assets, and how to release inherited trauma and get excited about the future again.
Experience
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, #133116
The Wright Institute, Masters in Counseling Psychology (2018)
Axis Mundi Center for Mental Health (2020 - current)
Pacific Center for Human Growth, Berkeley, CA (2018 - 2020)
co-founder of Therapists of Color Affinity Group
co-founder of Anti-Racist Solidarity Group
Compass Family Services, San Francisco, CA (2017 - 2018)
Training & Memberships
Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy - Foundations & Applied Skills of Narrative Practice
Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism for Bodies of Culture
Relational Somatic Healing - Bonding Beyond Attachment Training
QTIFS (Queer & Trans Internal Family Systems) - Foundations Course
Bay Area Open Minds
Gaylesta
California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
Outside
Therapy…
I spend my time taking dance classes, reading speculative science fiction, collecting stickers, and playing with my year-old kittens, Elote and Sunflower.
I value community connection - and spend a lot of time with my family and friends/lovers, participate in a local choir, and go to as many queer events as I can (especially to dance or meet new people)!