Staff: Interns
The Community Healing Centers supervise a staff of Marriage and Family Therapy Interns who offer services on a sliding scale at all three of our locations. Call for information and availability.
415-499-1115.
Interns
Pamela M. Ashkenazy, M.A.
Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, IMFT #57729
Pamela Ashkenazy MS, MFTI, offers individual, couple, and group counseling. She has been a member of our staff at Healing Centers since 2006. Her training and ongoing inquiry focuses on transitions, death, dying and loss, and aging. Pamela's therapeutic approach is rooted in client-centered psychotherapy. She believes that all individuals, couples, and families are inherently capable of accessing self-healing when offered the support that may be needed. Pamela concentrates her expertise to support clients with the following issues:
- • Grief and Loss
- • Transitions
- • Financial Stress
- • Self-Care and Self-healing in Relationships
- • Positive Aging
Pamela has participated as a volunteer with Trips For Kids, The Youth Leadership Institute, and teen programs focused on addiction in the family, Marin Services for Women, and Suicide Prevention of Marin County. She is an active serving member of The Compassionate Friends of Marin — a nonprofit bereavement support group for individuals and families.
Pamela is currently enrolled in doctoral level research at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA. Her doctoral research focus is on the psychology of women and aging.
Supervised by Amelia Pryor, Ph. D., LMFT #34681
Lyndsie M. Baker, M.A.
Bilingual Marriage and Family Therapy Intern, IMF #59570
Lyndsie Baker earned her M.A. in Counseling Psychology in 2008 from the American School of Professional Psychology. She has over 15 years of experience working with children and families in educational and therapeutic settings. She offers individual, couples and family counseling in English and Spanish. Lyndsie specializes in the following areas:
- • Child Development and Behavioral Challenges
- • Transitions into Parenting and Parental Support
- • Grief and Loss
- • Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Loss
Lyndsie has interned at Health and Human Services for several years, facilitating Pregnancy support groups for English and Spanish speaking women. She has worked extensively in partnership with the Marin Community Clinics and Kaiser, implementing the county-wide Ages and Stages Program and performing developmental and behavioral assessments with children ages 0-5.
Lyndsie uses an integrative, family systems approach when working with children and families, guiding each person toward deeper self-reflection and understanding of their current life situations and helping them move toward a more fully functioning place in their lives.
Working therapeutically with young children, Lyndsie utilizes play therapy, sand and art therapy to build autonomy and self-directed expression with each child. She believes strongly in taking a child-centered approach when working with children.
Supervised by Ellen Hammerle, Ph.D. LMFT #32398
Maya Johansson, M.A.
Marriage and Family Intern, IMF #61313
Maya earned her M.A. in Intergral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has experience working with adults, adolescents and couples and specializes in the queer and LGBT community. She provides services in both English and Spanish.
Maya is an AEDP (Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy) level one therapist, and practices using an attachment-based model which incorporates relational and somatic techniques as well. This model is very warm and heart-based, and also informed by the latest neuroscience research on how the therapeutic relationship and safety allow for healing. She welcomes anyone who has further questions or may be interested in an initial appointment to call and speak with her directly.
Supervised by Ellen Hammerle, Ph.D., LMFT #32398
Jenny Kepler, M.A.
Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, IMF #68130
Jenny Kepler earned her M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2011. She works with individuals, couples and families. She has worked as a therapist, a doula, in publishing, restaurants, and sales.
Jenny is adept at helping couples stop fighting and start listening to each other. By teaching couples to listen for understanding she naturally helps them rekindle the love between them, deepen their trust and their shared meaning. She has extensive experience supporting perinatal women and their partners through the birth process and changing family dynamics. Helping her clients to parent from a grounded place of integrity, love and strength is a passion of hers.
Her approach is eclectic, drawing from humanistic and psychodynamic psychology, Somatic Experiencing and attachment theory. She uses a strength-based approach that can help you let go of anxiety and depression and move forward. She enjoys working with people around relationship and family issues, anxiety, trauma and loss, and transitions.
Supervised by Ellen Hammerle, Ph.D., LMFT #32398
Catherine Lucey, M.S.
Marriage and Family Intern, IMF #49636
Catherine received a MS in Counseling Psychology from Dominican University and is a certified Gottman Educator. She has over 18 years of experience working with families and children as an educator and a therapist. Her passion for helping individuals through transition began while working for the National Outdoor Leadership School and continued her work as a director and educator for an Environmental Wilderness Program for school children on Oahu, Hawaii. In the Bay Area, Catherine has worked as a parent educator with families of divorce at Kids Turn, counseled students and parents at Kent and Del Mar Middle Schools in Marin, and provided psychotherapy for adolescents, parents, and groups at the Family Service Agency of Marin.
Currently, Catherine facilitates support groups for new moms as well as workshops and counseling for couples seeking to strengthen their partnership in early parenthood. With compassion and understanding, she uses an interactive, support-focused approach to help each client build on their "unique" strengths and skills they need to shine.
Supervised by Ellen Hammerle, Ph.D., LMFT #32398
Boe Elizabeth Roberts, M.A.
Marriage and Family Therapy Intern, IMF #64661
Boe Elizabeth Roberts is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern who specializes in counseling children and young adults. She works with an integrative theoretical approach, which culminates in the clients Personal Awareness. Ms. Roberts studied Professional Psychology at John F. Kennedy University where she earned a Masters Degree emphasizing Expressive Art Therapy. She completed her undergraduate degree at UCSC, where she focused on 'at risk' children and youth and their relationship within their community.
Ms. Roberts has extensive experience with young children, teens and their families. She has specific experience working with children who have divorced parents, been adopted, or are in foster care. She has also spent many years working with children of addicted parents, children with special needs, eating disorders, body image, and youth struggling with learning disabilities. Ms. Roberts is exceptional at Play Therapy, conducting sessions using a non-directive, internally focused, child centered approach. She uses her creative background in visual arts to support greater connectivity between children and their parents. Ms. Roberts also offers regular support groups for youth and children in the community.
Ms. Roberts is passionate about helping others find their joy in life and helping them realize their Dreams. She is realistic in her work and outlook on life, and uses her grounding nature to support people in achieving greater self knowledge and thus reaching their full potential.
Supervised by Ellen Hammerle, Ph.D., LMFT #32398
Elizabeth Sullivan, M.A.
Marriage and Family Intern, IMF 64565
Elizabeth earned her M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She works with individuals, couples, families and kids to heal and transform suffering and to better-understand ourselves.
Elizabeth has also studied Intuitive Listening with Kim Chernin, Ph.D., and sand tray play therapy for children. She consults with the SEIU's Institute for Change, Community Grows, and other social change organizations on leadership and management issues.
Of her practice, she says, "We all feel sad, anxious, depressed and overwhelmed and need help figuring things out sometimes. I work with people who want more meaning in their lives and more freedom for themselves. We will use talk, dreams, stories, and play to work creatively on the project of your life."
Supervised by Ellen Hammerle, Ph.D., LMFT #32398
Rachael Vaughan, M.A.
Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, IMFT #58132
Many people come to therapy because something painful has happened – a divorce, a lay-off, a break-up, a death. Others choose to see a therapist because they sense the possibility of a better life – a real relationship, a more satisfying career.
Either way, therapy is a quest to feel out and reveal what we normally keep hidden. To think what may sometimes seem un-thinkable. And in doing so, to discover and accept who we truly are, on a deep level. It often involves grief, but it also invokes joy.
I specialize in the following areas:
- • Relationship issues – for singles and couples.
- • Major life transitions, including coping with and recovering from divorce.
- • Issues related to immigration and migration, including dislocation and cultural identity.
- • Cultural and genealogical traumas – things that happened to your parents and grandparents, and that are still affecting you now.
- • Children and adult children of alcoholics.
- • Workplace issues, including career satisfaction, and workplace bullying.
My clients have reported some of the following benefits:
I draw on my own life experience, as well as my training in Gestalt, Jungian therapy and relational therapy. Having been born in Asia, and raised in the UK and Europe, I draw on multiple cultural traditions. I also offer therapy in French.
Supervised by Amelia Pryor, Ph. D., LMFT #34681
