Welcome to My Practice
I am a Licensed Psychotherapist (Clinical Social Work License No. 71159), and a Clinical Consultant. I have a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a Master's of Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work. I completed a Post-MSW Fellowship at UC-Berkeley, and received advanced training in relational psychotherapy through The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, California.
I support my patients in exploring a variety of conceptual frames that facilitate them having a deeper understanding of their emotional process. Therapeutic encounters can occur through a multitude of sources. These encounters can lead to novel, sometimes unanticipated understandings and perspectives. While I support these endeavors in therapy, I am also keen to explore how clinical work as a field can improve from interdisciplinary considerations, including the wisdom offered through political action, historiographies, visual arts and nature (to name just a few).
Publications:
Jamali, A. Mendez, T. “Know Whence You Came:” Psychoanalytic Theory, Queer Theory and Mixed-Race Experience. Psychoanalytic Social Work (2019).
Affiliations:
Member: American Psychological Association Division 39: Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Member: Section IX of Division 39: Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility.
Member: California Association for Marriage and Family Therapists.
Member of Steering Committee for the Coalition for Clinical Social Work- San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.