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 psychodynamic psychotherapy through The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, California. I am also an educator and have taught classes at Mills College, Smith College, The Psychotherapy Institute, ACCESS Institute, Women’s Therapy Center and California Institute for Integral Studies.
Beyond just credentials, I am of the opinion it is not only possible to have therapeutic encounter through a multitude of sources, but it is also useful to explore these possibilities! I support one in utilizing a myriad of conceptual frames with which to engage one’s emotional process, believing these venues can facilitate a different kind of encounter, often resulting in novel, sometimes unanticipated, understandings and perspectives. I am keen to explore how clinical work can benefit, deepen and improve from interdisciplinary considerations, including the wisdom offered through political action, historiographies, visual arts and engagement in 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: Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Member of Steering Committee for the Coalition for Clinical Social Work- San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.