RAISSA ALVERO, MA. REGISTERED ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST # 131664

510-876-4029 | THERAPY@RAISSA-ALVERO.COM

WWW.RAISSA-ALVERO.COM

Office in Berkeley

Supervised by Elysha "Lacy" Martinez, LMFT #93493.

I hold space for people who are facing life transitions, relationship struggles, family conflict and those who are healing from all forms of trauma. I utilize depth-oriented, liberation-focused and trauma-informed approaches to support people in gaining deeper awareness of the underlying issues that impact their relationships, sense of self and sense of belonging. I help people deepen and expand their capacity to experience, understand and be in relationship with themselves and with others. I believe that therapy is equal parts pain, love and liberation. As a therapist, I see my role as a guide who can co-create the balanced conditions of support and internal pressure ~ the optimal heat that allows the process of personal transformation to unfold.

NINA ÖZTÜRK, Registered ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST #137528

415-770-2010 | NINA@NINATALKTHERAPY.COM

NINATALKTHERAPY.COM

Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493

If you’re feeling like you don’t belong, then you’ve nearly found yourself.

Our society keeps us fragmented from ourselves. Our days are overfilled but somehow we’re left empty; we’re constantly socializing, yet we feel lonely. We are starving for acceptance and connection, for someone to listen and understand. Maybe you feel out of place and overwhelmed. Maybe you’re standing alone against the insurmountable and need a safe place to rest. Or maybe you can’t find your guiding light and the world feels dark. If you’re having these experiences, I want to be there with you, to connect with you.

Mahesh Francis, Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #134572

Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #12508

mfrancis.mahesh@gmail.com

Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493

Therapy can be such a beautiful, meaningful, life-changing, and inspiring experience. Therapy can also be a place where clients can feel missed, unseen, frustrated, and hurt. I believe in the importance of finding the right therapist for you! There is no such thing as a perfect therapist, but there is such a thing as a great fit. I believe that when you have a great fit, the therapeutic process can flow, and it’s easier to let down the guards and allow the healing process to manifest.

I am committed to my own healing journey, and I am committed to supporting my clients on theirs. My therapeutic approach is relational psychodynamic, and I have several years of experience working with anxiety, depression, identity issues, and systemic-related mental health challenges. I also have several years of experience working with Black, mixed-race, and clients of color.   I believe that a significant part of the healing journey is doing the work to reconnect with our authentic selves and bringing to light the ways that society, our families, and all of the people and things around us have influenced our understanding of who we are.

As a therapist, I consider myself warm, caring, and supportive. However, I am also focused and passionate about the healing journey. In session, we are not friends hanging out; rather, we are coming together to support your growth, emergence, and liberation in a friendly fashion!

Laura Piotrowski, Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #117706

(925) 304-3980 | laurapio@axismunditherapy.org

Supervised by Brian Lim, LMFT #105034

You are welcome here. You CAN feel better in your mind/body and in your relationships. Together we will create space and opportunity for curiosity, safe exploration, and resourcing.

You may struggle to show up authentically and equally in your relationships with your partner. You may struggle as a parent with constant worry about how you are parenting and if you are enough. You may struggle to find solid ground as a family.

You can’t just talk your way out of this. Real change requires healing the whole person. The good news is you can learn to be in your body safely, learn how your thoughts feel, and grow your capacity for intense emotions and experiences. You can create positive change by learning to be present to yourself and others with kindness and compassion. You can learn to nurture your resilience and nourish your spirit.

 The answers and the healing are in you. You can live a life of connectedness, wholeness, and vitality. I am here to guide and support you. I am a somatically trained, holistically oriented therapist with an integrative approach. I bring over twenty-five years of experience in holistic counseling and bioenergetics, as well as personal experience with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD.) I am client centered and trauma informed. I’m a spouse, parent, and grandparent.

I see individuals, couples, and families with young children via telehealth.

JUSTIN HARRIS, MA. REGISTERED ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST #135145

415-890-4064 | CONNECT@THERAPYWITHJUSTIN.COM

THERAPYWITHJUSTIN.COM

Telehealth, Office in Oakland

Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493

Thank you for being here, for taking this very large step towards your growth and towards enhancing your wellbeing. Whether you’re looking for support with a specific issue or to build on your insights and quality of life, I am here for you. I am a queer therapist and enjoy working with other LGBTQ+ individuals. I also enjoy working with adults, teens, and couples of all identities and intersections.

My interest is in getting to know you. To understand you. Not just who you are, but how you are. I believe in the process of therapy and its power, and that we engage in this process together. I trust you and your inner knowing to bring forward the aspects of you that are needing attention and care. We will discuss and explore those aspects together, looking at how and when they started, how you are experiencing them currently, and how we can increase support.

Grishma Gautam, REGISTERED ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST #137295

GRISHMAG@AXISMUNDITHERAPY.ORG

Supervised by Brian Lim, LMFT# 105034

“In disconnection, we crumble. In connection, we transform”. – Grishma Gautam

We are innately wired to live and heal in relationships, as answers to our struggles can unfold in our interconnectedness to ourselves and the life around us. So, let me reach out my hand to accompany you on your path of embodying your fuller self while navigating life’s struggles. In attunement, we will co-create a nourishing and tailor-made environment. When a safe and loving space is experienced, the innate tendency of the organism is to organically move toward inner wisdom, wholeness, and transformation.

We will collaboratively work on developing your somatic awareness, expanding on existing gifts, and non-judgmentally welcoming all parts of yourself to be celebrated and integrated.

As humans, we are multidimensional beings and are way too complex for an instant linear “fix”. Firstly, you are not broken for me to fix you. You are a whole being who may have temporarily lost their way to innate intelligence. In realigning to inner wisdom, both the pain and the medicine that we carry, and the next steps in growth will be revealed organically. My expertise is in guiding you and your expertise is in finding YOU!

HILA DEAN, Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #137857

206-923-8762 | hdean@axismunditherapy.org

hiladean.com

Telehealth

Supervised by William Ma, LMFT #96148

I specialize in a rainbow of neurodivergence, particularly for autistic-ADHD bodyminds, drug users, psychonauts, and other neuroqueers.

I offer reflexive, deconstructive, and integrative guidance for life optimization, anxiety, and meaninglessness; attention to jumping class; outlaw and high risk lifestyles; non-normative families and estrangement; forgetfulness, aging, and death anxiety; and ontological insecurity. I have been facilitating the integration of consciousness-expanding experiences since before Michael Pollan thought it was cool. I work within the relationship that we build, moving at your pace, and only instigating as much as we agree to.

I am inclined toward and identify with the renegade and Bodhisattva. I am autistic, queer, non-monogamous, white, femme-presenting, and I have been a student of meditation and yoga asana since 2002. I am from the rural Pacific Northwest, love epistemology, and I use a lot of gardening metaphors. 

DAVID CHUNG, MA. Registered ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPist #138933

562.267.9061 | DCHUNG@AXISMUNDITHERAPY.ORG

davidchungtherapy.com

TELEHEALTH

Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493.

I am passionate about supporting clients on their evolving journey towards healing and wholeness, and my approach to therapy is non-pathologizing and client-centered — I will always respect your autonomy and honor your unique strengths and life experiences as essential to your unfolding. In sessions, I will meet you where you are with warmth and value you for your whole self. You will be seen and heard as we collaborate to develop strategies and skills to live a more connected, content, and authentic life.

I prioritize creating a supportive environment for clients from diverse and historically marginalized communities. Coming from a first-generation immigrant family, I recognize that our lives can often be impacted by familial and cultural pressures, systemic and intergenerational trauma, and childhood wounding. I hold compassionate space to unpack and explore these aspects of experience through a holistic, trauma-informed lens.

As a Queer ally and sex positive therapist, I also welcome clients who are seeking a supportive space to embrace all of their identities and ways of being. I also enjoy working with men to shed limiting beliefs around masculinity, supporting you to reclaim and redefine what your gender identity and expression mean to you.

SARAH CONNOLLY, REGISTERED ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST #145129

510-696-0504 | SCONNOLLY@AXISMUNDITHERAPY.ORG

TELEHEALTH ONLY

Supervised by Pablo Navarrete-Martinez, LMFT #113911

My passion is to help you attend to the pain and trauma that can arise on the parenting path so that you can live with ease in the present moment. 

I believe therapy can be most helpful when it’s mo re than thinking and talking. I leverage the potential of somatic, attachment-focused trauma therapy to bring deep healing and liberation from pain that is often carried across generations. At a safe pace, we can work together to tap into the messages you absorbed as a child, and discover how you learned to carry them in your body. We can shift these patterns and change how you act and react in the present moment. I offer a connected, nourishing, and safe way for us to release your trauma’s hold on you. Together, we will bring acceptance and compassion to all your emotions and experiences so you can let go of long-held modes of resistance and shame.

I have lived all of this myself, so nothing you can bring me is too much. I’ve faced the depths of my own pain and grief and returned to see the beauty of the world.

TRISTAN CRANE, REGISTERED ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST #143586

tristanctherapy@gmail.com

TELEHEALTH, ECOTHERAPY

Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493

It can be quite daunting to enter therapy, especially if it's a new experience for you. I engage collaboratively with my clients to create an environment which is affirming and supportive of your personal growth.

I work relationally and empathically with folks across a wide range of identities; specializing in lgbtq+ folks including those exploring or questioning aspects of their sexual or gender identity.

My framework is social justice oriented, I'm kink and sex-worker affirming and support clients in a wide range of relationship structures. 

ELI FUjita, Associate Clinical Social Worker #118495

‪510.646.1509‬ | efujita@axismunditherapy.org

TELEHEALTH

Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493

Hello! I am a queer, nonbinary, and mixed-race clinician. My background is in college and career counseling and working with neurodivergent kids and young adults. I often incorporate mindfulness practices into my sessions to help with grounding and processing, and encourage clients to express themselves creatively in session in whatever way feels supportive to them. 

Cadence McCracken, Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #15312

therapy.with.cadence@gmail.com

TELEHEALTH

Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493

“Art is not a mirror to reflect reality. It is the hammer with which we shape it.” -Bertolt Brecht

I am a commitment to queer and trans liberation and healing through the arts. I am an expressive arts therapist who uses one or more of the modalities of art, writing, drama, dance, and music. I can support you in connecting with your emotions, grounding and self-soothing, navigating mental health challenges, and growing your innate powerful resilience. I am not afraid of your fire, your passion, your pain. I would be honored to be your accomplice in making contact with your truth and inhabiting your most authentic self.

SHANNON KNORR, Associate MARRIAGE AND FAMILY Therapist #147306

510-859-8158 | SKNORR@AXISMUNDITHERAPY.ORG

WWW.TENDINGOURWILDROOTS.COM

TELEHEALTH ONLY

Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493

“You might say grief is the price you pay for loving something or someone, but it is also a privilege, because it is what allows authentic beauty, which isn't always pretty, but it is always truthful, to find its way through you. And this beauty medicine is what the world needs most to heal.” Toko-pa Turner, Belonging

I use a holistic and trauma informed approach using Somatic Therapy, Hakomi, Expressive Arts, Shadow and Dream work, Transpersonal Therapy, Internal Family Systems (parts therapy), Humanistic Relational Therapy, Therapeutic Yoga, Mindfulness (or Bodyfulness), Polyvagal and Nervous System Rebalancing and Depth Psychology. I work intuitively and collaboratively using a holistic, body centered approach, bringing the unconscious to consciousness, we explore returning to wholeness of self in connection to the greater world and our own lives, finding authenticity, self acceptance and love, inner alignment, purpose, embodied truth and joy in our relationships to self and other. Transforming shame into liberation, while moving out of habituated conditioning, I facilitate and hold deep space for grief, death and renewal, belonging, transformation and rites of passage.

Specializing in women's empowerment, trauma recovery, self esteem and self worth, chronic illness and cancer, belonging, body image and body shame, relationships and boundaries, anxiety and hyper-vigilance, nervous system imbalances, life transitions, highly sensitive people and empaths, people pleasing as a trauma response, intergenerational trauma, mothering and the mother wound.

Monique "Kiki" Lyons, Associate MARRIAGE AND FAMILY Therapist #142839

KLYONS@AXISMUNDITHERAPY.ORG

TELEHEALTH, ecotherapy (oakland)

Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493

As a proud descendant of Afro-Indigenous tribes that withstood and endured colonialism for generations, I feel called to support individuals impacted by colonization who are drawn to breaking patterns of historical and intergenerational trauma. After spending more than a decade dedicated to clearing my ancestral trauma while living in my ancestral homelands, I learned the power of culturally specific expressive art therapy and became inspired to support others along their journey. I believe it is important to apply a person-centered and trauma-informed framework when supporting clients. I specialize in treating neurodivergent children and young adults suffering from anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, childhood trauma, and substance use. If you long for a decolonized approach to mental health and processing intergenerational trauma, look no further.

As an integrative therapist, I invite clients to explore therapeutic opportunities beyond traditional talk therapy. This includes arts-based mediums, such as geek therapy, Afrodrama, play therapy, sound therapy, and other forms of culturally specific expressive art therapy. Additionally, I believe it is important to apply a person-centered and trauma-informed framework when supporting clients.