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Renae Johnson is the founder of Open Space Therapy Collective (OSTC), a group practice that focuses on mental health for and by the LGBTQIA+ communities and their allies. Renae has long been a mental health community leader and educator, and is working to build a foundation of awareness and resources in the mental health community for providing queer- and trans-informed care. Renae also hosts a podcast called My Therapist is Out!, which features conversations on mental health topics from a queer perspective.
Renae is an art therapist who specializes in treating complex trauma, identity and gender, and artistic development. Prior to founding OSTC, Renae spent a decade in community health services for people experiencing complex co-occurring diagnoses, first as a therapist and later as an Operations Director.
Today we talk about Advocating for your authentic self in LGBT care.
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Lila Galustian , aka Lili, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of Re-Discovering You, an outpatient skills application program located in Westwood Ca. Lila specializes and loves working with individuals struggling with personality disorder symptoms and traits, and has spent about 10 years working with this specific population utilizing DBT and CBT modes of therapy. Lila has a radically genuine approach to therapy and is a believer in teaching her clients to become their own therapists by learning to make the CBT and DBT skills second nature within themselves.
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Becky Belinsky, Ph.D., LMFT specializes in working with clients who struggle with eating disorders and all types of food and/or body image related issues. Her approach is size inclusive and fat positive, and she is passionate about exploring the societal and relational factors that contribute to eating disorders and disordered eating. She has conducted research around the intersection of weight stigma, eating disorders, and family relationships, and is also a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. In addition to her work around eating disorders, Becky provides psychotherapy for adults, couples, and families around the issues of anxiety and relational challenges.
Becky Belinsky, Ph.D., LMFT
"The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love", Sonya Renee Taylor
"Body Respect", Lindo Bacon Ph.D.
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Benji and Nora (LMFTA) co-facilitate a group called Why Am I Still F*cking Single in Portland Oregon. Benji is in their third and final year of the Licensed Professional Counselor Program at Lewis and Clark College, and is the practice manager of Nora's private practice Awake Together Counseling. In her practice, Nora specializes in couples, sex therapy, and individuals experiencing prolonged, unwanted singlehood. In their clinical practice, Benji specializes in sexuality, gender identity, and religious trauma.
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Connective Therapy Collective - Benji Hurston
Deeper Dating
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Merle Yost is a psychotherapist, author of six books, and teacher. His last book is "Facing the Truth of Your Life", and he is here promoting his new workshop series, "Seven Steps to Powerful Boundaries".
He has been a private practice therapist for over 30 years and specializes in trauma, men sexually abused as children, gynecomastia, and bi and gay heterosexually married men.
After growing up in a cult and being sexually abused as a child, his healing journey led him to help others claim their power and lives. He is an Approved Consultant in EMDR, a San Francisco Gestalt Institute graduate, has a Masters in Counseling Psychology: Transpersonal Specialization, and a BA in Management.
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Dr. Jennifer Montesi (mon-teasy) is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a full time private practice in the LA area. She specializes in the treatment of OCD, partner relational problems, and the overlap between couple distress and OCD. She has a particular specialty in treating Relationship OCD (or R-OCD). She spent 2 years working the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and thus is also well-versed in treating trauma, addiction, and the range of anxiety and mood disorders. In her practice, Dr. Montesi focuses on showing up in a way that is both warm and challenging with her clients and emphasizes the therapeutic relationship above all else. In addition to her work with clients, Dr. Montesi is a Clinical Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology where she supervises doctoral students in their clinical training. In her free time, Dr. Montesi loves being with her 3 young kids, baking, and being outdoors.
Jennifer Montesi, PhD
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Dr. Taylor is a licensed clinical psychologist (CA PSY 29909) who focuses on ways to provide evidence-based, effective, accessible mental health services to specific target populations, from adolescents to Veterans. Her areas of interest include postpartum mental health, anxiety, depression, crisis management and app development. She has a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University, a Masters of Public Health (Community Health Sciences) from UCLA, and a Psy.D. from the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium. When not at work, Katie spends time eating Baskin Robbins Winter White Chocolate ice cream and chasing her three children (and often doing both of those things simultaneously).
Julie Ursic, JD, MSW a licensed attorney and associate clinical social worker in private practice in Hermosa Beach and San Pedro. She specializes in treating perinatal mood disorders including anxiety and depression using evidence based approaches and enjoys working with the pregnant and postpartum populations. She also utilizes CBT-I to help clients experiencing insomnia and sleep difficulties. With her 17 yrs experience at a law firm, Julie has a special interest in working with clients in high stress professions trying to manage the work/life balance.
Julie completed her B.A. in Communication Studies and minor in Applied Developmental Psychology at UCLA followed by her JD at Loyola Law School and MSW at USC. Julie applies her experience as an attorney and mother of 3 including multiples to provide a behavioral approach to manage the impact of stress, depression, and anxiety on daily life.
Katherine Taylor, PsyD, MPH
Julie Ursic, JD, MSW
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Rebecca is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice who focuses on trauma and anxiety. Originally from Chicago, she worked in "the biz" for over ten years before changing careers into psychotherapy. She received her Masters in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University with a focus on Trauma. Rebecca studied various approaches to relational trauma and grief in an effort to create a new integrative approach to intimate safety related wounds.
Rebecca utilizes EMDR with both couples and individuals to address complex and single incident trauma. Somatic approaches are her preferred method for aiding clients with regulation issues. Rebecca has a virtual and in-person practice with a diverse group of associates, all of whom are strength-based and relational. Both in and outside of session, Rebecca utilizes humor and a wellspring of knowledge about sci-fi and fantasy to connect with others.
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Rebecca Doppelt, LMFT, Psychology Today
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Danielle Keenan-Miller, PhD, is a psychological scientist, teacher, and therapist. She spent more than a decade as the director of the UCLA Psychology Clinic, where she trained graduate students in evidence-based psychotherapy. She has written more than a dozen scientific articles, and is the author of the Binge Eating Prevention Workbook. She has a private practice in Los Angeles, CA, where she blends the art and science of psychotherapy.
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Meet Rachel Fleischman – licensed social worker, psychotherapist, registered expressive arts therapist, workshop facilitator and speaker who over the last two decades has supported thousands of humans to deepen their creativity, feel understood, and love themselves fiercely. Through her private practice, Bliss Counseling, and a unique movement system she developed called Dance Your Bliss, Rachel works with individuals and couples and has expertise in crisis management, trust, body image, premarital and marital issues, sex therapy, depression, anxiety, life transition, and panic disorder, to name a few.
Fleischman is currently developing new e-books and coursework surrounding; Sleep Health, Body-Centered Psychotherapy and Mindfulness Workshops. She has developed the Relaxed and Real model for psychotherapists. She can regularly be found leading international workshops and programs at conferences, corporate retreats, and wellness centers such as the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute’s Women and Courage Conference, Canyon Ranch, the Naropa Institute’s Hakomi Conference, the Hollyhock Retreat Center, UCSF Women's Health, Rancho La Puerta Spa, and the International Dance Therapy Conference.
Her sought-after mental health expertise has been featured on numerous podcasts and in magazines such as Verywell Mind, Best Life, Psychology Today, Martha Stewart, and Parade, to name a few.
Rachel also aims to give back to her local community by volunteering at the San Francisco Public Libraries and leads a variety of pro-bono movement activities at organizations such as the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
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"Your Body Speaks Its Mind" - Stanley Keleman
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Dr. Colleen Long is a licensed psychologist and innovative entrepreneur, known for her ownership of Boston Psychological Testing Associates and Clarity California Psychological Testing. Her practices are lauded for their groundbreaking approach to psychological testing, which serves as a diagnostic cornerstone before initiating medications and therapy. Currently, she is expanding her impact through the Elevated Practice, a consulting model that empowers healthcare providers to optimize their operations using AI and other technologies. Dr. Long champions the idea that psychological testing is akin to an "X-ray" before the "surgery" that is the therapy. Her testing provides invaluable insights, ensuring that subsequent therapeutic and pharmacological interventions are precisely targeted.
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Landis Bejar is a New York State Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional counselor in the state of Georgia. Landis earned Masters degrees in Counseling Psychology and Mental Health Counseling from Columbia University. In 2018, Landis founded AisleTalk: Consultation & Therapy, a New York-based therapy and coaching practice devoted to supporting clients who find themselves stressed out as they plan their wedding – a time in life which seems glamorous and euphoric on the outside, but can actually bring up very real stress, mood changes, anxiety, and relationship/family strain for so many. For her innovative work in this area, Landis has been quoted as an expert source in numerous media publications, including TIME magazine, The New York Times, BRIDES, Bustle, Vox, The New York Post, and several others. Landis has also served as a mental health and relationship expert on the BRIDES media review board. She now manages AisleTalk remotely from Atlanta, Georgia, where she lives with her husband and two boys.
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"The Conscious Bride", Sheryl Paul and Sheryl Nissinen
A Practical Wedding
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Victoria Buttery, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice based in San Diego. She specializes in treating PTSD and trauma-related distress using evidence-based approaches, and integrating a client's faith into the healing process. She was previously a staff psychologist at VA San Diego Healthcare System, served as the facility's PTSD Director, and held a faculty appointment at UCSD. She has trained and supervised many psychology interns and residents, given talks locally and nationally, and helped clinics implement national guidelines and best practices for providing quality, evidence-based PTSD treatment.
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The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
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Sarah Lopano is the COO and Executive Clinical Director of Cognition Builders, an educational company that provides individualized, immersive, in-home support. She has an M.Ed in Child Studies from Vanderbilt University and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She has been published in several articles and has worked in the clinic, home, and hospital settings to provide behavioral support. At Cognition Builders, in collaboration with a clients treatment providers, Sarah applies her knowledge of the science of behavior to bring a behavioral approach to the practical challenges of families within their day to day lives.
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Dr. Kinasz is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of psychiatric illness that impact children and adolescents including but not limited to mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, and eating disorders. She also sees children struggling with behavioral issues at home or at school and adolescents exploring their gender identity.
Dr. Kinasz uses various treatment tools including psychotherapy, psychoeducation, parent and family interventions, and medications to help an individual achieve their personalized goals in treatment.
Dr. Kinasz carefully listens to a person's unique story and uses an evidenced-based approach to address their individualized needs. Her child and adolescent fellowship training helps her to explore her patients through a lens that considers biological, psychological, and environmental factors that contribute to their symptoms. She believes in addressing the family system in treatment so that the individual and, when applicable, the entire family can achieve psychological healing and growth.
Dr Kinasz received her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of medicine, trained at UCSF for her general adult psychiatry residency and completed her fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford University. She is currently practicing out of CalPsychiatry’s Menlo Park office and over Telehealth.
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Dr. Kinasz is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of psychiatric illness that impact children and adolescents including but not limited to mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, and eating disorders. She also sees children struggling with behavioral issues at home or at school and adolescents exploring their gender identity. Dr. Kinasz uses various treatment tools including psychotherapy, psychoeducation, parent and family interventions, and medications to help an individual achieve their personalized goals in treatment. She is certified in family based treatment (FBT) for eating disorders and sees individuals with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, atypical anorexia, and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. Dr. Kinasz has multiple first-author publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is a co-author on the eating disorder chapter in the Dulcan Textbook for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and a first author in the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative’s module on the neuroscience of appetite.Dr Kinasz received her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of medicine, trained at UCSF for her general adult psychiatry residency and completed her fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford University. She is currently practicing out of CalPsychiatry’s Menlo Park office and over Telehealth.
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National Eating Disorders Association
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Laurel Roberts-Meese is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, Pennsylvania, and Florida, and is the founder and clinical director of Laurel Therapy Collective. Laurel Therapy Collective specializes in helping driven professionals decrease anxiety and trauma symptoms, handle burnout, and build more fulfilling relationships. Therapists at Laurel Therapy Collective have a particular passion for working with the LGBT community, especially doing couples' work.
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Zach's practice often focuses on work with individuals navigating their 20's-30's, male psychology, and anyone looking to explore identity. He believes that the foundation of his work with clients in therapy is based in offering them a relationship in which they can feel genuinely safe to trust that they can be seen and understood. He has worked in a variety of clinical settings and with diverse client populations which has highlighted his strength in his humanistic, relational approach toward inviting clients into the healing work that awaits them. He is often working from a psychodynamic and feminist lens to conceptualize and hold space for the “whole person” and their various intersectional identities, but usually tends to bring the work back to the here and now, through a warm, yet direct approach, as he and his client move toward further insight and mindfulness.
Zach has a passion for working with clients exploring their values and identity as they learn how to engage life in the most congruent way for them. This is often what comes up in his work with navigating 20's and 30's and at times even more specifically with his work with men as we explore intimacy, masculinity, and self-esteem. He is also passionate about his work with attachment and relationships, inner-child processing, as well as understanding family system dynamics and role expectations.
Through therapy and our therapeutic relationship, it is his hope that clients will build insight and skills around how to engage themselves with more acceptance and compassion.
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Alexandra Katehakis, Ph.D., LMFT is Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, faculty for the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals, and the recipient of the 2018 WAAT Smart Award, the IITAP Leadership, and the 2012 SASH Carnes Award. She is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist/Supervisor and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist/Supervisor specializing in the treatment of sexual addiction and other sexual disorders.
Dr. Katehakis is the author of What Turns You On? A Guide to Living Your Best Sex Life (2022), Sexual Reflections: A Workbook for Designing and Celebrating Your Sexual Health Plan (2018), Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment (2016), co-author of the 2015 AASECT award winning Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence (2014), contributing author to the Clark Vincent award winning Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts, in M. Feree (Ed.) (2012), and author of Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex After Recovery From Sex Addiction (2010).
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Rebekah Tayebi has been a therapist and parent coach for over eighteen years. Throughout her career, she has supported families, individuals, and teens. She loves the authentic connection she gets to build with clients as they heal from trauma, family of origin wounds, and manage daily life stressors. Rebekah enjoys bringing humor and spiritual perspectives into the work with clients and feels grateful to get to do this work.
Rebekah Tayebi
"Parallel Process" - Krissy Pozatek
"The Conscious Parent" - Dr. Shefali Tsabary
"The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers" - Gary Chapman
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