About Shenaaz
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of California.
(License #75300.)
Searching for a therapist can be a complex process. My hope is that you find a match that helps you deepen in your own healing work and path – whether that is with me, or another therapist.
I birthed my psychotherapy practice after years of working from a systems and macro, or community-wide stance, where I focused on issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, patriarchy, and community violence more broadly. While doing this work, I often felt that it was hard to see and feel progress being made towards our goals of building more safe and connected communities. I also felt frustrated by remedies focusing on criminalizing the problems, rather than healing from systemic oppression, and interpersonal wounding. Rather than deporting and locking people in cages, I desired to see people take responsibility for their actions, recognize the impact of their choices, and ultimately forgive themselves and one other. I wished to see and facilitate the potential to love deeper, and trust again.
(License #75300.)
Searching for a therapist can be a complex process. My hope is that you find a match that helps you deepen in your own healing work and path – whether that is with me, or another therapist.
I birthed my psychotherapy practice after years of working from a systems and macro, or community-wide stance, where I focused on issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, patriarchy, and community violence more broadly. While doing this work, I often felt that it was hard to see and feel progress being made towards our goals of building more safe and connected communities. I also felt frustrated by remedies focusing on criminalizing the problems, rather than healing from systemic oppression, and interpersonal wounding. Rather than deporting and locking people in cages, I desired to see people take responsibility for their actions, recognize the impact of their choices, and ultimately forgive themselves and one other. I wished to see and facilitate the potential to love deeper, and trust again.
So I began to study and learn about ways to support people in their healing process.
I believe that our social location, our material conditions, our identities, and “other markers of difference”, deeply inform how we live and move in the world, and it is from this place that I work with people on their path towards individual healing and liberation.
I believe that our social location, our material conditions, our identities, and “other markers of difference”, deeply inform how we live and move in the world, and it is from this place that I work with people on their path towards individual healing and liberation.
Experience
Credentials
Licensed Clinical Social Worker LCSW 75300
Education
2-Year Graduate, Women’s Therapy Center, Berkeley (2013)
PPSC, UC Berkeley Social Welfare Summer Session (2013)
MSW, Community Organizing/Community & Social Systems, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor MI (2007)
B.A. Sociology, California State University of Sacramento (2003)
Relevant Training
Internal Family Systems Training, Richard Schwartz, San Francisco, CA (January 2020)
Addressing Racial Microaggressions in Therapy and Supervision, Kenneth Hardy, Berkeley, CA (January 2019)
Transforming Trauma, Trauma Stewardship Institute / Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Oakland, CA (October 2013)
Culturally Appropriate Therapeutic Models: Understanding Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome, California Institute for Integral Studies /Joy De Gruy, San Francisco, CA (May 2013)
Transformative Life Skills: Mindfulness Training for Schools and Adolescents, Niroga Institute, Berkeley, CA (March 2013)
Somatics and Trauma Training, Generative Somatics, Oakland, CA (April 2011-September 2012)
Introductory Transformative Justice Training on Child Sexual Abuse, Generation FIVE, Oakland, CA, (December 2011)
Community Education Training for Trainers, School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), Oakland, CA (September 2010)
Previous Work and Activities
School Social Worker, Aspire Richmond Cal Prep; Native American Health Center, Ann Martin Center
People of Color Sangha Coordinator, East Bay Meditation Center
Civic Engagement Fund Consultant, Asian/Asian-Americans in Philanthropy (AAPIP)
Violence Prevention Coordinator, CA Partnership to End Domestic Violence
Community Outreach Director, API Domestic Violence Resource Project
Creator, Photovoice Kashmir Pilot Project
Community Outreach & Education Coordinator, New Visions: Alliance to End Violence in Asian Communities
Intern, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Sacramento Valley
Professional Affiliates
CA Association of School Social Workers
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute (AMCLI)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker LCSW 75300
Education
2-Year Graduate, Women’s Therapy Center, Berkeley (2013)
PPSC, UC Berkeley Social Welfare Summer Session (2013)
MSW, Community Organizing/Community & Social Systems, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor MI (2007)
B.A. Sociology, California State University of Sacramento (2003)
Relevant Training
Internal Family Systems Training, Richard Schwartz, San Francisco, CA (January 2020)
Addressing Racial Microaggressions in Therapy and Supervision, Kenneth Hardy, Berkeley, CA (January 2019)
Transforming Trauma, Trauma Stewardship Institute / Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Oakland, CA (October 2013)
Culturally Appropriate Therapeutic Models: Understanding Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome, California Institute for Integral Studies /Joy De Gruy, San Francisco, CA (May 2013)
Transformative Life Skills: Mindfulness Training for Schools and Adolescents, Niroga Institute, Berkeley, CA (March 2013)
Somatics and Trauma Training, Generative Somatics, Oakland, CA (April 2011-September 2012)
Introductory Transformative Justice Training on Child Sexual Abuse, Generation FIVE, Oakland, CA, (December 2011)
Community Education Training for Trainers, School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), Oakland, CA (September 2010)
Previous Work and Activities
School Social Worker, Aspire Richmond Cal Prep; Native American Health Center, Ann Martin Center
People of Color Sangha Coordinator, East Bay Meditation Center
Civic Engagement Fund Consultant, Asian/Asian-Americans in Philanthropy (AAPIP)
Violence Prevention Coordinator, CA Partnership to End Domestic Violence
Community Outreach Director, API Domestic Violence Resource Project
Creator, Photovoice Kashmir Pilot Project
Community Outreach & Education Coordinator, New Visions: Alliance to End Violence in Asian Communities
Intern, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Sacramento Valley
Professional Affiliates
CA Association of School Social Workers
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute (AMCLI)
