Welcome! ¡Bienvenidos! स्वागत! Bienvenu! Welkom! !خوش آمدی
ברוך הבא! Willkommen! ようこそ！ Byenvini! Chào mừng! 欢迎！Välkommen!
Yes, we have mental health professional members who speak each of the above languages saying "Welcome".
Our President's Welcome from Pat Hromalik, LMFT Welcome to the Redwood Empire Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. I’m glad you are here. We are a vibrant, diverse group of therapists with a wide range of focuses and specialties, serving our communities in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino and Lake Counties. Search our therapist directory using a variety of parameters to help you find potential therapists. Learn about our mission, vision, values and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, racial and social justice. We pride ourselves on being one of the largest and most active CAMFT Chapters with many benefits to our members. While we promote the Licensed Marriage and Family designation, we welcome affiliate clinicians (LPCC, LCSW, PhD, PsyD, etc.) to join our community. We offer an array of CE trainings with dynamic monthly speakers covering a range of topics that are timely and cover new therapeutic methods and approaches. Our on-demand library of CE courses from prior presenters allows for learning on your schedule and at your own pace. There are opportunities for you to gather socially, to network, to engage in shared activities and hobbies, and to get support through our Ethics Roundtable consultation group and our CARE Circle (Compassion, Acknowledgement, Recharge and Empowerment). I am particularly excited about our renewed focus on prelicensed members through regular networking and speaker events, as well as robust scholarship offerings, all geared to help our next generation of therapists through their educational and experiential journey to licensure, and launching one of the most challenging and rewarding careers that there is. Learn more about membership and to join here. Our mission is further defined through our revised Strategic Three (3) Year Plan that I worked hard to shape based on my fellow board members thoughtful and honest input and evaluation during our 2025 planning retreat. I am committed to our goals and want to see as many of our objectives met as possible. We have a dedicated and dynamic team on the Board and we need your help to bring all these wonderful ideas and initiatives to life. Please consider getting involved through volunteering on a committee or serving on the board or helping with micro volunteer opportunities - email us at info@RECAMFT.org. We are a great group - we work hard, we have fun and we laugh a lot! I look forward to meeting more of you and getting to know you. I am honored to help lead our organization. Together we can make 2026 our best year ever! Pat Hromalik, LMFT 2026 RECAMFT President For the Community For Mental Health Professionals RECAMFT's Mission: "The purpose of RECAMFT is to promote and maintain professional competence and integrity with knowledge, innovation, compassion, humor and respect for human dignity and diversity. We do this by providing opportunities for networking, education and community outreach for our members.” Racial and Social Justice Pledge: RECAMFT is committed to equity including addressing structural racism and systemic injustice. We endeavor to be inclusive and value individuals from all ethnicities, ages, races, sexual orientations, genders, languages, abilities, religions, citizenship statuses, and socioeconomic backgrounds into our chapter and into treatment. We strive to advocate, educate, collaborate, and strategize for positive racial and social justice change within our membership and our community. The Best CE Bargain! You can earn ALL your CEs for renewal, simply by attending the monthly RECAMFT meetings and taking our Law & Ethics six-hour seminars, now offered as several 3-hour online trainings. It's the best CE bargain anywhere and includes fun networking with your colleagues, a wide variety of interesting speakers and topics, a chance to get known in the community for what you do, and great snacks! RECAMFT provides CEs for professionals who are licensed with the CA Board of Behavioral Sciences. There is no charge to members for 1.5 or more CEs at most general monthly meetings put on by this chapter. Non-members who desire CEs can pay to purchase a CE certificate. | Featured member |
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Support & Safety During Crisis:
Treating Undocumented Families
Facing ICE & Detention
Presented by
Dr. Sandra Espinoza, PsyD, LMFT
- Friday, February 6th, 2026
- 9:00 am - 11:15 am PT
- 2 CEs
- On Zoom
Course Description
This introductory workshop will prepare clinicians with the knowledge and tools to support undocumented clients and families impacted by the threat of deportation. Recent research highlights the urgent need for such clinical awareness. Personally knowing a detained or deported person, particularly when the individual is a family member, is strongly associated with poorer mental health among U.S. citizens (Pinedo & Valdez, 2020). This webinar will provide clinicians with specific skills to assess and address the relational ruptures, attachment disruptions, and trauma responses that often accompany deportation-related family separation. Participants will learn how to integrate trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive, and systemic approaches in their work. Practical
interventions, case examples, and strategies for navigating clinical and community-based challenges will be included.
Dr. Sandra Espinoza, PsyD, LMFT (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Branch Director of the Couple and Family Therapy program at Alliant International University in Los Angeles. A bilingual Mexican-American therapist and AAMFT Approved Supervisor, Dr. Espinoza integrates cultural humility, social justice, anti-oppressive, anti-carceral approaches, and advocacy in her scholarship, teaching, and practice. She has presented on the issue of immigration and deportation at the local and national level. She has been in clinical practice for over 14 years and maintains a private practice supporting mostly interracial couples and Latinx clients.
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Our members offer a wide array of groups for the public. Please visit our Therapy Groups page to see the current list, which you can download as a PDF. To purchase an advertisement in RECAMFT's Therapy Groups List, click here.  Are you looking for a Medi-Cal provider?
We are constantly updating our Therapist Directory to reflect providers who take the Partnership Healthplan of California Medi-Cal (managed by Carelon in Sonoma County). You can search for a provider on the Carelon website here. When prompted for "Plan name/Code" enter "Partnership."
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Click here to see this FREE 2 hr training Presented by Doreen Van Leeuwen, LMFT Critical Incident Responder, and expert in Disaster Mental Health October 19, 2017 |
"Brief Disaster Response Training for Helping Professionals"
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| Adopted by the RECAMFT Board on August 20, 2021 RECAMFT and our members strive to be exemplary professional resources for Marriage and Family Therapists, Associates, affiliates and people seeking our services, through leadership, quality education, and establishing a collegial, compassionate network to serve our local communities. |
RECAMFT’s Values (from our Strategic Plan) Respect, compassion, inclusivity, collaboration, adaptability, transparency
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Redwood Empire Chapter of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
is a CAMFT Approved Continuing Education Provider: License #57173.
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