Alicia currently lives bi-coastally in San Francisco CA and New Haven CT. She travels, teaches, and facilitates trainings nationwide.
She is a Senior Trauma Clinician at the Post Traumatic Stress Center at West Rock Wellness in New Haven, CT, where she provides trauma-centered psychotherapy and drama therapy to clients navigating severe anxiety, depression, and PTSD. She primarily works with people who have experienced gun violence or sexual assault.
She is the Director and Lead Faculty member of Developmental Transformations Institute-West, a three-year, trauma-centered, play-based certification program for drama therapists based in San Francisco, CA, where she also supervises and mentors program graduates.
In 2020, Alicia took on the role of Training Director and later Co-Director of the Miss Kendra Program (formerly known as the ALIVE Program), a nationwide initiative based in New Haven, CT. She initially joined the team in 2017, offering direct services to children and youth, and went on to contribute to curriculum development, training, and supervision across multiple facets of the program. The initiative uses play, imagination, and storytelling to help K–12 students build resilience and foster inner strength in the aftermath of trauma. Currently she conducts trainings for Miss Kendra Certification at various organizations and schools.
Since 2021, Alicia has also been adjunct faculty at CIIS in San Francisco, where she teaches trauma centered psychotherapy to graduate students from various Counseling Psychology programs.
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