Supervisors

SCC supervisors are volunteer professionals who are trained through the Sentio Supervision Residency, a year-long intensive that includes over 50 hours of video-based training in the Sentio Supervision Method (SSM), a comprehensive and stepwise deliberate practice supervision model that reliably improves counselors’ clinical skills. The SCC supervisor training includes:

  • How to use DP with trainees at all developmental levels (beginning trainees to licensed therapists)

  • Apply DP across all models of psychotherapy (CBT, psychodynamic, EFT, MI, etc.)

  • Use DP for developing the person-of-the-therapist and inner skills (e.g., countertransference)

  • How to provide the most helpful feedback and keep trainees in the Zone of Proximal Development

  • How to use Routine Outcome Monitoring in supervision

 

Cristina Biasetto

Cristina Biasetto, LCSW is the clinical supervisor and manager of the University of California San Francisco Trauma Recovery Center, which provides trauma-focused therapy and case management to survivors of interpersonal violence in San Francisco, CA. For about ten years, as a trilingual clinician (Spanish, Italian, and English), her clinical work has focused on the assessment and treatment of severe trauma, particularly among survivors who have experienced migration. At the University of California San Francisco, she is also the Mental Health Director of the Health and Human Rights Initiative, which works to expand access to pro-bono forensic psychological evaluations for asylum seekers. In addition to her clinical work, she is Adjunct Faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, where she teaches graduate-level courses on the complexities of clinical care in community mental health; family violence and protection; and crisis, disaster, and trauma counseling.

 

Jason Brand

Jason Brand, LCSW is a Lead Deliberate Practice Instructor and trainer at Sentio. He is certified in Deliberate Practice Supervision through the International Deliberate Practice Society. In his private psychotherapy practice Jason specializes in supporting the growth and development of men in an increasingly complex world. His work with men includes facilitating a group for fathers of young children. In his couples work, he is certified in PACT (The Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) and serves as a faculty member at the PACT Institute.  Jason lives in Berkeley with his wife of twenty years and their two teenage daughters. Find out more about Jason on his website: www.jasonbrand.com

 

Lynndal Daniels

A psychotherapist, licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California, Lynndal also holds Board Certified Coach and Board Certified Telemental Health Provider credentials through the Center for Credentialing and Education. A 1996 graduate of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (Sofia University) with a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, Lynndal has been working in the field of personal transformation and change for over two decades and has been supervising trainees and associates in both individual and group settings since 2016.

Lynndal Daniels is available for supervision and deliberate practice consultations. Contact: lynndal@psychotherapist.coach

 

Karen Flynn

Karen Flynn, MFT, loves working as a couples therapist. Initially trained in the Gottman approach, she found her passion within the EFT community and uses the model for couples, families and individuals.  Karen is enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge with newer therapists and frequently volunteers her time at EFT training events.

In previous clinical settings, Karen treated adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness in community mental health settings.  Karen is trained in DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) and is certified to administer the SIPS (Structured Interview of Psychosis-Risk Syndromes).

Karen grew up in Ireland and attended art college in Cork. Curious to live abroad, she continued her education in California. Along the way, she became a yoga teacher and taught for many years. Today she values daily walks while exploring new podcasts. She delights in the healing power of humor and chocolate.

 

Ariana Lloyd

Ariana Lloyd, LCSW, LICSW, is a dedicated Clinical Social Worker and Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor committed to serving the communities of Oregon and Washington for over 16 years. With a profound love for her community, Ariana endeavors to embody an anti-racism, gender, and sexuality affirming approach in her practice. Her humanistic perspective shapes her work as she supports individuals in their journey towards healing and growth.

 

Sharon Mead

Sharon Mead is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California. She specializes in couples therapy, couples counseling, marriage therapy, marriage counseling, individual therapy, and psychotherapy, multicultural/intercultural couples. She has advanced training Emotionally Focused Therapy and Level 2 training Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Before becoming a therapist, she worked for 13 years in software development and management in a large Bay Area technology company.

 

Madeleine Miller-Bottome

Madeleine Miller-Bottome, Ph.D. is an attending clinical psychologist at Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Miller-Bottome is a core faculty member of the psychiatry residency program and the post-doctoral health psychology fellowship. Dr. Miller-Bottome is a Part-Time Adjunct Faculty Member at University of San Francisco's Clinical Psychology PsyD Program, where she teaches courses on clinical interviewing and evidence-based treatment. She specializes in relational psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment-based interventions, including Mentalization Based Treatment for Children (MBT-C), and therapeutic alliance-focused training. Dr. Miller-Bottome received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the New School for Social Research in New York. She completed her pre-doctoral fellowship at University of California San Francisco Child and Adolescent Services Multicultural Clinical Training Program and her post-doctoral fellowship in Women’s Health at Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center.

 

Alycia O’Connell

Alycia O’Connell is a licensed social worker in both Oregon and Washington, as well as a master’s level certified drug and alcohol counselor in Oregon. Additionally, she is a Safe and Sound Protocol Practitioner. Her expertise lies in licensure and post-licensure supervision, chronic illness, depression, anxiety, and providing support to professionals in helping professions. Alycia employs a diverse range of treatment modalities, with some of her favorites including Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), Compassionate Inquiry, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

 

Margaret Petersen

Margaret Petersen MFT, Certified EFT Therapist and EFT Supervisor, specializes in relationships and all the many ways relationships can become so tricky to navigate at times with individuals, couples, and families in her private practice in Pleasanton, CA. Margaret has served on the Board of the Northern California Community for EFT (NCCEFT) since 2012 and is the Speaker Liaison for their Quarterly and Annual events. She has served on the Diversity Committee and Scholarship Committee of NCCEFT and has presented topics on EFT, couples, and sexuality to the community. Margaret truly enjoys helping clinicians become their most authentic therapeutic selves and she is honored to be a part of the Sentio community!

 

Katharina Sandizell

Katharina Sandizell, LMFT, is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapist and Supervisor and a student of AEDP. She has been seeing clients for over 20 years and is the founder and clinical director of her group practice, Love Frontier Therapy Group, where she supervises associates and consults with licensed therapists toward becoming skilled in the EFT model for couples, individuals, and families. 

Katharina has been putting together trainings for various non-profits and group practices for years around EFT couples therapy and the healing power of emotion and attachment. She is the former Director of Couples Therapy at the Community Institute for Psychotherapy where she was also a Clinical Supervisor, and provided trainings for post masters and doctorate level trainees and associates.

In her free time, Katharina loves to purposely lose the phone, eat her husband's home-cooked spaghetti, meditate, read adventurous historical novels, and hike with her black lab.

 

MacKenzie Stuart

MacKenzie Stuart is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with adults, couples, partners, and families. She specializes in nontraditional relationship structures, including polyamory and other forms of consensual nonmonogamy, as well as chronic depression and suicidality. Her other clinical interests include psychosis, psychopharmacology and drugs, LGBTQIA2-S and GNC/non-binary communities, kink and BDSM practices, and sex work. MacKenzie enjoys psychodynamic case conceptualization, the enneagram, biofeedback, narrative and solution-focused interventions, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. She is a member of core faculty at The Wright Institute in Berkeley and leads a private practice in Alameda.

 

Julia Tisdale

Julia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from the Bay Area. She works primarily with anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship issues. Julia uses short-term dynamic and emotion-focused frameworks to help guide her work. Julia also specializes in ketamine-assisted therapy and psychedelic integration. Julia is so happy to be a part of the Sentio team!

Julia Tisdale is available for supervision and deliberate practice consultations. Contact: julia.tisdale610@gmail.com

 

Abigail Torcedo

Abigail is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and her passion lies in serving the community and working with adults with severe mental illness and their families. She currently works as a Clinical Supervisor for the Adult Outpatient Program with Tri City Mental Health.  Abigail also works with individuals and loves drawing from trauma-informed, DBT, and psychodynamic approaches to help her clients. She would like to contribute to future generations of mental health professionals, so she is very excited to be at Sentio!

For fun, she is an avid video gamer, consumer of anime and manga, and she loves trying out new restaurants and food.

 

Mena Zaminsky

Dr. Mena Zaminsky has been a practicing clinician for the past twenty-five years.  She holds a Doctorate of Psychology in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology.  Mena brings a strong somatic focus and a specialty in both trauma and working with couples.   Dr. Zaminsky is a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist and Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist (CEFCT) and has extensive training in Hakomi, Psycho-Physical Therapy, Polyvagal Informed Treatment and EMDR, among other modalities.

Dr. Zaminsky has served as the Program Chair and on the Board of Directors, Interim Registration Coordinator and Continuing Education Coordinator for the Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Therapists (NCCEFT). In her free time, Mena likes being outdoors, walking, hiking and kayaking. She loves attending live concerts and performances, entertaining and spending time with family, friends her partner and her dog, Moe.