The On the Margins team stands on a forest path, pointing towards the camera, with tall, leafy trees surrounding them.

Clinical Training Opportunities

The mission of OTM’s Clinical Training Program is to train students and recent graduates to become knowledgeable, systemic, culturally sensitive, ethical, anti-racist, and trauma-informed Marriage and Family Therapists, Professional Clinical Counselors, Social Workers, and Psychologists.

On the Margins is a community mental health-based organization that seeks to collaborate with others to design and implement anti-racist, joy-focused, sustainable, and affirming practices. Our organization strives to do our work with love, commitment, political action, and freedom dreaming.

FAQs

  • Our team consists of a group of health professionals, artists, researchers, and consultants who aim to exist at the intersection of feminism, anti-racism, and trauma-responsiveness. Our team is working with others to dismantle white-supremacist, heteropatriarchal, cisnormative, mono-normative, and colonial practices as they exist within the classroom, healthcare system, research lab, and larger community. We are inspired by BIPOC scholars, feminists, freedom fighters, community organizers, and abolitionists. 

    Our clinical team consists of Licensed Psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, AMFTs, APCCs, ACSWs, and clinical trainees.

  • As a member of the clinical team at OTM, you will offer trauma-informed and culturally responsive therapy services in-person and virtually. You will be offering services in urban and rural areas, traveling to see clients in the Bay and Sonoma County (e.g., Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Cloverdale, Sonoma Valley). You will be asked to provide individual therapy for children, teens and adults, couples therapy, family therapy, group therapy, and crisis intervention.

    As far as indirect support services, you will be offering case management as a collaborative process that involves assessing individual needs, developing care plans, facilitating access to services, and advocating for clients. You will also review client charts, write progress notes, coordinate community resources, participate in training sessions, and consult with other professionals for clinical support.

  • We see clients who are often pushed out to the margins of society. These clients may include BIPOC, Queer, Spanish speaking clients, undocumented, and DACAmented clients.

    We ask that you have experience working with womxn, femmes, gender non-conforming, intersex, nonbinary, and other members of the LGBTQIA2+ community.

    • Train mental health practitioners who are knowledgeable, systemic, integrative, and trauma-informed.

    • Train culturally humble entry‐level therapists who are informed by a multicultural perspective and awareness of self.

    • Develop a stronger identity as Marriage and Family Therapists, Professional Clinical Counselors, Social Workers, and Psychologists .

  • We are looking for exceptional clinicians with a deep-seated commitment to cultural sensitivity, humility, and social justice; those who create a safe and affirming therapeutic space for clients from diverse backgrounds.

    We are specifically interested in clinicians adept at working with individuals who identify as Queer, Trans, BIPOC, bilingual/bicultural, immigrant, or first-generation. We would like to collaborate with clinicians in training who hold a profound understanding of the unique challenges and strengths within these communities.

    Moreover, clinicians with a commitment to reflective practice and ongoing learning who are looking to continually hone in their skills and who remain at the forefront of culturally humble care are those who we consider the best fit for our training program.

Group of four smiling people, with the text 'TIL WE'RE ALL FREE' above them and 'ON THE MARGINS' beside them. The image features a black and white design with a diverse group.
On the Margins staff are outdoors, wearing sunglasses and smiling, dressed in casual clothing with name tags, standing on grass with trees in the background.
On the Margins staff are in a park, wearing casual dark shirts with an On the Margins logo, engaging in informal conversation. Sunny day.
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Clinical Team
On the Margins leaders, Cindy Berrios and Daniela Dominguez, smiling and laughing outdoors with Golden bridge and mountains in the background.
Clinical supervisor, Colette Horn, is laughing while holding glasses
Yetunde Daniels, an On the Margins coach, is reading a book.
Dr. Aaron Horn is smiling and seated on patterned couch in black and white.
Melissa Andrade is smiling with glasses and long hair wearing a denim jacket, standing against a brick wall.
Darnell Nash-Beyer in a white shirt and jeans leaning against a brick wall, wearing a cap.
Cristina Zapata standing against a brick wall wearing a black t-shirt with the text "On the Margins" and a striped skirt.
Danika Munro with glasses smiling in front of brick wall, wearing black clothes with "The Margins" logo.
Bianca Pulido with dark hair smiling in front of a brick wall, wearing a black top
Dr. Daniela Dominguez sitting against brick wall, wearing cap, black shirt, dark pants, and white sneakers.
Black and white portrait of Anaid Carreño with long hair smiling in front of a brick wall.
Alexandra Caldeira in denim shirt smiling, holding patterned fabric, standing against brick wall.
On the Margins clinical supervisor, Colette Horn, with short hair smiling and stretching their arms outward, wearing a "On The Margins" T-shirt, standing on a path surrounded by trees.
Heidy Umali smiling and raising arms in front of a brick wall, wearing a striped sweater and dark shirt.
Darnell Nash-Beyer in white t-shirt and jeans leaning against a brick wall.
Heidy Umali smiling outdoors, wearing a T-shirt with "On the Margins" and a name tag. Background includes grass and a picnic table.