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Corina's photo captures her dark brown hair, which is curly and shoulder length with a part to one side, white skin with rosey cheeks. In the photo, Corina is wearing a black and white sweater that goes to her knees, and is open in front with a black tank top underneath. The top half of the sweater appears speckled with black and white while the bottom half of the sweater is white. Corina is leaning forward with her elbows resting on top of the metal handle at the top of a chair. Corina's hands are folded together. The chair is largely out of the frame of the picture. Corina is smiling and looking directly at the camera. Corina identifies as a cis, queer, white, Italian America and Irish American woman.
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Corina Maria Teofilo Mattson

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

COO, Bilingual Staff Psychotherapist, Training Team

Keesha identifies as a cisgender African American woman. She has dark brown shoulder length locs and a dark-skinned complexion. She is wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and is posed leaning over a chair with her chin resting on her closed right hand. She is wearing silver hoop earrings, a silver bracelet on her right wrist and a silver watch on her left. She is smiling, looking directly at the camera.
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Keesha Beasley

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, NCC

Staff Psychotherapist, Accountability Coordinator

Nancy Tartt Portrait
  • Leadership & Admin
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Nancy Tartt

Associate Marriage & Family Therapist

Affiliate Psychotherapist, Affiliate Supervisor

Jordan, a white agender Woman with dark blonde hair - curly and long on the top and shaved short on the sides - smiles at the camera. They are wearing a black short sleeve button up shirt with white line drawings of faces, gold earrings, and round, gold-rimmed glasses.
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Jordan Dunmead

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Training Mentor Coordinator, and Training Team Member

Kenya Naylor Portrait
  • Leadership & Admin
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Kenya Naylor

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

Staff Psychotherapist, Accountability Coordinator, Clinical Supervisor

Andreina Phelan identifies as a cisgender woman, light complected Latine with shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes, smiles at the camera. She is wearing a long sleeve button up shirt with light blue and white stripes and gold color earings.
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Andreina Phelan

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

Training Operations and Development Manager

Sakina Levin Portrait
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Sakina Levin

Licensed Professional Counselor

Multilingual Staff Therapist, Hiring & Recruitment Manager

Misty Major Portrait
  • Leadership & Admin
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Misty Major

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Clinical Director, Staff Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor

Porter Green- a white agender person with long wavy green and brown hair and green eyes smiles at the camera. Ze is wearing a three quarter sleeved green tunic, gold wire wrapped marble stone ear weights, and a gold locket on a thick chain. Ze has visible tatoos on zer right forarm of a woven band and a rugosa rose as well as a bindrune tatoo on zer left arm near the elbow that can barely be seen.
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Porter Green

Licenced Clinical Psychologist

Director of Clinical Training, Clinical Supervisor, Trans Affirming Psychotherapist, Training Team

Katie Baker Portrait
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Katie Baker

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

Affiliate Psychotherapist

Andrea Freerksen Portrait
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Andrea Freerksen

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Clinical Supervisor, Bilingual Staff Psychotherapist

Betty Guilfoile, a white cisgender older woman with short gray hair and blue glasses, smiles at the camera while wearing a sky blue blouse with a darker blue scarf and gold earings.
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  • Supervisor
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Betty Guilfoile

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Staff Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Internship and Fellowship Manager

Audrey, a white cisgender woman with dark brown curly hair, hazel eyes, and freckles, smiles at the camera. She is wearing a black T-shirt and a grey blazer. She is wearing tortoiseshell glasses, a thin gold necklace, and plastic hoop earrings. Behind her is a red brick wall and a palm plant.
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  • Supervisor
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Audrey Habermann

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

Clinical Supervisor, Queer-Affirming Psychotherapist, Social Coordinator

Steph, a white cisgender woman leaning over a chair, resting her chin on her hand while looking at the camera with a gentle smile. She has an asymmetrical cut with long, dark brown hair and remnants of a blonde streak on one side, and the other side buzzed short. She is wearing a light grey sweater, dark green glasses, and turquoise stud in her ear.
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Stephanie Terrell

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, BC-DMT, GL-CMA

Staff Psychotherapist, Birthday Celebration Coordinator, Social Committee

Seth James Portrait
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Seth James

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

Staff Psychotherapist, Art Show Coordinator

Brooke Allen, a white fat ciswoman in her forties, smiles at the camera. She has medium length gray-brown hair and is wearing a green sweater and large blue earrings.
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Brooke Allen

Licensed Professional Counselor, Internship and Fellowship Manager

Jacob Penrod, a nonbinary young adult, sits relaxed in a blue chair against a brick wall. Their brown hair is styled in a Mohawk. They are wearing a short-sleeve white shirt with small paper airplanes printed across it. They are also wearing blue jeans and have their fingernails painted black.
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Jacob Penrod

Marriage and Family Therapist

Staff Psychotherapist, Trainee Group Supervisor

Cat Kliegle, a white person with long blonde hair, leaning forward towards the camera with their arms crossed. They are wearing a white sweater with a rainbow stripe diagonally across the front of the sweater. She is also wearing gold-framed glasses and gold hoop earrings.
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Cat Kliegle

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Staff Psychotherapist, Intake Coordinator

John, a white non binary person with long light brown hair and a brown with hints of red beard smiles at the camera. they are wearing a brown beanie and a blue and yellow flannel shirt. They have their left eyebrow pierced and turquoise plugs in their ear lobes.
  • Supervisor
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John Guilfoile

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Staff Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor

Sophia, a white ciswoman in her late twenties, stands behind a chair and leans forward with her arms folded over the back of the chair in a friendly, casual, way. Sophia has a big, toothy smile, rosy cheeks, blue eyes, and long, blonde, wavy hair. She is of medium height and slight build. She wears a deep blue silk blouse with brass buttons down the front and blue jeans.
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Sophia Etling

Licensed Social Worker

Psychotherapist

Alex, a white non-binary woman with brown curly hair framing their smiling face wears a septum ring, hexagonal gold framed glasses, and raibow earrings that peak out from behind her hair. Her sleeveless buttoned up jumpsuit has a bright raindow, heart, and smiley faced pattern covering its black background. Her body is slightly angled so her left arm is in the foreground displaying thier black and grey tattoo sleeve. In a background you can see that her right arm has multiple colored tattoos covering it as well, including one of a cuttlefish.
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Alex Hoffman

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

Psychotherapist

Lily Diego-Johnson Portrait
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Lily Diego-Johnson

Licensed Social Worker

Bilingual Psychotherapist

Janay, a medium-toned black woman smiles at the camera while holding a long white cane.
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Janay Anthony

MA in Couples and Family Therapy Candidate

Post-Graduate Founders’ Fellow

Eros, a light skinned Chinese-American, genderqueer, transmasculine person with short black hair brushed to the left and shaved short on the sides - leaning forward and smiling at the camera. They are wearing a beige turtle neck with a navy blue blazer, wearing a gold necklance, one silver dangling earing on their upper left ear, and a threaded brown and yellow bracelet on their right wrist. Behind them is a blurred red brick wall and palm plant.
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Eros Imhoof

MSW Candidate

Psychotherapist, Live Oak Founders Fellow

Alissa Catiis Portrait
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Alissa Catiis

Staff Therapist

Daniela Zimmer Portrait
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Daniela Zimmer

Licensed Social Worker

Psychotherapist

Melissa Ramirez Portrait
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Melissa Ramirez

Licensed Social Worker

Psychotherapist

Maya Vadell, wearing a black and white plaid shirt and leaning slightly forward on a stool smiles at the camera.
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Maya Vadell

MA/MS Candidate

Graduate Clinical Intern

Ryan Farrior is a black cisman with brown/dark skin, wearing a long-sleeved tan button shirt. He is wearing dark green pants and is sitting with his hands interlaced softly. He has a tattoo of several words on left wrist. He wears a short buzz cut, and more specifically a faded buzzcut. He is smiling while showing teeth. He is sitting upright and front-facing not at any angle.
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Ryan Farrior

MSW Candidate

Graduate Intern Psychotherapist

Deshun Peoples Portrait
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Deshun Peoples

MSW Candidate

Graduate Intern Psychotherapist

Jae Avilez, wearing a primarily pink and white striped short sleeve sweater, leans over a tall chair with their right hand under their chin. They're smiling at the camera, wearing round gold glasses and in front of a brick wall and tall green plants.
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Jae Isla Avilez

MA in Couples and Family Therapy Candidate

Graduate Clinical Intern

Sarah Schaffer Portrait
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Sarah Schaffer

Licensed Social Worker

Live Oak Founders Fellow

SaCora Williams Portrait
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SaCora Williams

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Affiliate Psychotherapist

Dulce Davalos Portrait
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Dulce Davalos

Staff Psychotherapist

Julia Plomer Portrait
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Julia Plomer

Staff Psychotherapist

Beto Chavez Portrait
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Beto Chavez

Staff Psychotherapist