Welcome to my practice.
I am a Licensed Psychotherapist (Clinical Social Work License No. 71159) and a Clinical Consultant. Having obtained my Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, I received 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 at 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.
As a therapist, I believe it is possible to have therapeutic relationships with a multitude of sources. Using a variety of conceptual frames to engage one’s emotional process facilitates a different kind of encounter, often resulting in novel, sometimes unanticipated, understandings and feelings. I am keen to explore how clinical work can benefit, deepen and improve from interdisciplinary considerations, including the wisdom offered through botanical study, fiction, historiographies, visual arts and political reflection (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.
International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
National Association of Social Workers.
American Psychological Association Division 39: Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology.
The Psychotherapy Institute.