Our Educators
Valerie Doyle
Valerie Doyle, MA LMFT, is the founder, a clinician, and clinical director of Matters of the Heart Counseling Centers. She has been working with individuals, couples, and groups since 2005 (15 years). A quality that defines her practice is the ability to help people feel accepted and able to open-up to share and explore what is on their heart and mind.
Shaylyn Gulickson
Shaylyn Gulickson a certified mental health trainer and a Mental Health and Wellness Consultant. Her work centers around decreasing mental health stigma and introducing an action plan for assisting someone in a mental health or substance induced crisis. Shaylyn is passionate about changing lives through mental health resources/tools and leveraging her various platforms to change the negative mindset associated with mental health.
Wil Cason
Wil Cason is a certified professional speaker, trainer, and author who has provided professional development and motivation to impacting companies, schools, communities, and individuals for 20 years. He has a unique approach to inspire organizations and individuals to reach impressive outcomes. Wil challenges individuals to create a vision and action steps to achieve their goals.
Aileen Fullchange
Aileen Fullchange, PhD, is a licensed multilingual psychologist and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP) who specializes in serving children, families, and couples from diverse backgrounds. She has a passion for empowering her clients to reach their fullest potentials by helping them to understand their own strengths and to build resilience. She has worked with families in numerous capacities since 2005 as a former public-school teacher, school leader, educational consultant, and then as a clinical psychologist. Aileen continues to provide therapy and assessment services as well as supervision of doctoral and master's level psychology students and trainings at the well-regarded nonprofit Momentous Institute.
Alexis Owens
Alexis Owens is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, with over 4 years of serving diverse populations in private, group, and community organizational settings. The wealth of her clinical experience includes serving individuals, groups, and organizations in matters of anxiety/depression, co-occurring disorders, self-esteem and self-care habits, trauma, and a host of other categories. Her desire is to provide all clients with a person-centered approach of which demonstrating empathy, genuineness, and acceptance is a top priority. She enjoys being a positive facilitator for client concerns and trauma, while exploring the possibility of healing and joy for each client.
Amanda Lutton
Amanda Lutton is a certified mental health facilitator and mental health advocate within the workplace. Amanda’s work centers around diversity and inclusion within the recruiting space. She is excited to invite each participant into the space of combating mental health stigmas and determining strong coping skills within themselves and potentially for others.
Carla Vogel-Stone
Carla Vogel-Stone, PsyD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with 25 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families in a variety of clinical settings. Carla is a Canadian immigrant who has spent the last two decades providing mental health services, training, supervision and programmatic oversight in university health centers, on mobile crisis teams, and in non-profit community mental health agencies. She is currently the Director of Clinical Services at Community Health for Asian Americans (CHAA) where she supports clinicians providing school-based specialty mental health services to underserved youth and their families.
Debbie Colon Boyce
Debbie Colon Boyce has over 25 years of sales, coaching, and training experience working with organizations, teams, groups, and individuals in a variety of industries. Using creative interactive activities and engaging innovative training styles, participants have been able to readily apply their newly acquired skills and strategies which have made a significant impact in their new business development initiatives. Debbie is a world traveler and has visited the Middle East, Central and South America, and she has worked throughout the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe. Debbie is fluent in Spanish.
Ivy Capshaw
Ivy Capshaw has experience in working with children who have Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families. Ivy also has experience in critical thinking, collecting data, and implementing behavioral interventions to help improve the quality of life for these children and their families. Ivy is passionate about helping others to find their sense of well-being which is extremely valuable and rewarding to her. Ivy is eager to raise awareness, and she has extensively studied in the treatment of substance use disorders, personality disorders, depression, and anxiety disorders.
Kimberly Whitaker
Kimberly Whitaker, PsyD, is uniquely prepared for working with individuals, families, and groups. She possess over 12 years' experience working with adjustment disorders, anxiety, depression, psychotic disorders, trauma, child/adult physical, sexual and mental abuse, domestic and community violence. Kimberly has extensive experience (20+ years) working with the re-entry community, people struggling with addiction, developmental disabilities, and people addressing issues of homelessness. She has extended her services to multiple local non-profits and currently provides services within a private practice setting in San Leandro, CA.
Maggie Cooke
Maggie Cooke is a transformative coach, consultant, and facilitator who delivers results. Maggie is known for her curious, intelligent, and perceptive approach. With over 25 years of corporate experience, she supports high-impact programs that enable organizations to reach their goals through the increased effectiveness and performance of their people. Maggie has an Economics degree, postgraduate adult education training, executive coaching certifications, Search Inside Yourself Leadership -SIYLI (Google), Neuroscience of Change Certification, Power of Embodied Transformation (in progress), and master certification in dozens of training programs.
Natasha Kharbanda
Natasha Kharbanda was born and raised in India. She completed her undergraduate education and worked in India for a short while before coming to the US in 2006 to pursue a Masters in Social Work from San Jose State University. This unique background gave her a better appreciation and understanding of the cultural sensitivities present in this multicultural environment here in the Bay Area. Since 2008, Natasha has worked with a diverse clientele including low-income individuals, seniors, victims of domestic violence, and people with varying degrees of mental illnesses. She currently works in the medical industry to help patients and their families resolve crisis situations.
Qiyanna Love
Qiyanna Love, M.S., AMFT, is a mental health clinician and Level 1 Certified Gottman Therapist. Qiyanna has four years of experience providing trauma-informed psychotherapy, three years of creating and implementing innovative program development within leadership capacities, and over ten years of experience providing strengths-based case management to underserved communities within an anti-oppression framework. As a Clinical Coordinator, Qiyanna manages a Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Innovations Program that supports clients in transitioning to a lower level of mental health services, and provides supervision and consultation for diverse teams of peer providers.
Ranjeeta Roy
Ranjeeta Roy, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist residing in the East Bay of San Francisco. She utilizes a combination of her diversified global work experience, educational pursuits, and compassionate nature to best service individual and group needs. Ranjeeta is trilingual; the languages of fluency are English, Hindi and Bengali. She has facilitated groups on a range of topics including stigma - a barrier to mental health, social and emotional well-being of women in transition, and theatre of the oppressed. She wishes to be a part of a workforce that embraces diversity, inclusion, and culturally-competent care.
Shawneshia Hoover
Shawneshia Hoover, LMFT, is a Certified Board of Behavioral Sciences who specializes in supporting system-impacted families and adolescents with histories of complex trauma. She holds spirituality, cultural humility, humor, and community as the foundation of her therapeutic frame. Shawneshia has offered support to Dual Diagnosis treatment centers for adolescents and families, case management to foster care youth and families, mental health services to Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC), and early childhood mental health consultation in San Francisco. Shawneshia shares her trauma-informed expertise and pulls from her lived experience with mental health and intersectionality to her work.