Mindful Life Counseling

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12/23/2025

What a year it’s been! This year we held space for each other & our clients with the collective lows AND we also shared our collective highs! It’s as important to celebrate connection & joy during these times and we did just that. Loved celebrating everyone’s professional wins this year. Thank you for sharing, MLC team! 🫶🏽

Huge huge huge congratulations to Tiffani Clay, LCPC & Sylvia Chen, LCSW!! Tiffani joined MLC in 2022 & Sylvia joined ML...
12/16/2025

Huge huge huge congratulations to Tiffani Clay, LCPC & Sylvia Chen, LCSW!!

Tiffani joined MLC in 2022 & Sylvia joined MLC in 2023 and we’ve had the honor of witnessing them work towards full licensure which is so exciting!! As part of MLC’s supervision curriculum, they attended weekly clinical supervision, bi-weekly triadic clinical supervision, and monthly group supervision. They’ve spent time, care, & intention in learning & unlearning to get to this point and we’re thrilled to celebrate them! Congratulations, to you both!!







This year, turned 5️⃣.Back in 2020, many people told me not to center a therapy practice on decolonization, racial trau...
12/13/2025

This year, turned 5️⃣.

Back in 2020, many people told me not to center a therapy practice on decolonization, racial trauma, or a focus on care for clients of color and q***r clients of color. I was encouraged to focus on a “broader demographic,” which really meant centering dominant identities, otherwise it would be seen as exclusionary, unethical, or unfair.

I kept hearing the same unsolicited messages:
therapy shouldn’t be political,
therapy shouldn’t be radical,
and building a business around social justice values wasn’t “smart.”

If something is built for the people already at the center, no one questions it. But when it’s built for people on the margins, folks freak the F out lol.

Thankfully, I didn’t listen. I trusted my gut. & I surrounded myself with an amaaaazing team of folks who were committed to this work. & now here we are, 5 years later unapologetically thriving 🔥.

11/26/2025

How often do we name the ways psychology has historically pathologized the real lives of marginalized people?

EVERYDAY!!

Here’s our MLC library:

📚Writing for a Liberation Psychology by Ignacio Martin-Barió

📚Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma by

📚My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by

📚Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan, PsyD

📚Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma by

📚The Racial Healing Handbook by

📚Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by

📚The S*x Talk: A Muslim’s Guide to Healthy S*x & Relationships by

11/26/2025

Mindful Life Counseling started as a vision, a space where therapists could show up as their full selves.
Where humanity, identity, culture, community weren’t add ons to someone’s care but were the foundation.

But a vision is just an idea until people breathe life into it. And this team… this community… is the reason that vision became real. We created this space together thoughtfully and authentically.

To the Mindful Life team, we see you 🫶🏽

Hugest congratulations to two of MLC’s clinicians for becoming fully licensed!! Luz Maria Miranda, LCPC & Mellany de Med...
08/12/2025

Hugest congratulations to two of MLC’s clinicians for becoming fully licensed!! Luz Maria Miranda, LCPC & Mellany de Medeiros Nones, LCPC 🎉

Luz joined MLC in 2022 after graduate school and it’s been so amazing to watch them achieve this milestone! As part of MLC’s supervision curriculum, Luz attended weekly clinical supervision with Alex, bi-weekly triadic clinical supervision with Masuma, and monthly group supervision w/ folks on the team. Luz leads by example & MLC is only better with her here. We’re eternally grateful they’re part of the team ❤️.

Mellany joined us this year & we’re so honored she chose MLC to continue her journey 🥹. In the short time Mellany has been here, we can’t imagine MLC w/o her!

MLC summer outing 🦋. Doing the work we do, especially how we value embodiment work, isn’t easy while witnessing the horr...
08/09/2025

MLC summer outing 🦋. Doing the work we do, especially how we value embodiment work, isn’t easy while witnessing the horror all around us. We show up everyday for ourselves, each other, & our clients in a way that has felt harder than ever.

There are a lot of things we don’t have control over right now that directly impact us, our identities, and our communities. What we can control is who we’re in community with. And I am honored to be in community with the MLC team ❤️

HUGE HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO ERKA CHAVEZ, LCSW!!!Erika joined MLC in 2022 right out of graduate school, and we’ve had th...
05/20/2025

HUGE HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO ERKA CHAVEZ, LCSW!!!

Erika joined MLC in 2022 right out of graduate school, and we’ve had the privilege of watching her grow into the amazing (and heavily sought-after!) therapist she is today. As part of MLC’s supervision curriculum, she attended weekly clinical supervision with Alex, bi-weekly triadic clinical supervision with Masuma, and monthly group supervision w/ folks on the team—not to mention offering support to her peers who were learning and growing alongside her. Working with her is truly a gift.

Congratulations, Erika, LCSW!! —we are honored to celebrate you!

Mindful Life Counseling hosted our 1st open mic at & wow, there’s nothing like the power of a safe space 🥹. Thank you t...
05/19/2025

Mindful Life Counseling hosted our 1st open mic at & wow, there’s nothing like the power of a safe space 🥹. Thank you to everyone who came out last night! To the performers, you were incredible. And to the crowd, you held space with such care & encouragement that vulnerability showed up in its most natural & authentic way. Community is everything & we felt every bit of it last night ❤️.

Meet the Mindful Life Counseling Team! First Row (left to right): -Susan is a q***r Asian American and is our office man...
05/13/2025

Meet the Mindful Life Counseling Team!

First Row (left to right):
-Susan is a q***r Asian American and is our office manager.

- Nui, LPC is Bengali American woman who specializes in polyvagal/somatic work, cultural & spiritual identity development, & intergenerational healing.

- Sophia, LPC is a Cambodian-Chinese American, q***r non-binary clinician who specializes in somatic-based therapy, complex trauma, spiritual, gender & s*xuality identity development.

- Masuma, LCPC is a South Asian woman who specializes in EMDR, somatic-based therapy, complex trauma, anti-oppression & social justice education, & spiritual identity development.

- Noah-Christina, LCPC is a Black woman who specializes in EMDR, anti-oppression & social justice education, racial,
identity development.

- Luz, LPC is a q***r clinician who specializes in issues related to immigrants, gender & s*xual identity development, & q***r s*x education.

-Katie, LPC is a biracial, q***r, non-binary clinician who specializes in parentification, racial, gender, & s*xual identity development, intergenerational trauma & growth.

Second Row (left to right):

- Dekhari, MA is a 2Spirited Black man who specializes in racial, s*xual, spiritual, and gender identity & transgender health.

- Erika, LCSW is a Latinx cisgender woman who specializes in EMDR, spirituality, racial identity development, issues related to immigrants.

- Alex, LCSW, is a Chinese Vietnamese q***r and trans woman who specializes in trauma recovery, & racial, s*xual, & gender identity development.

- Tiffani, LPC is a Black cisgender woman who specializes in EMDR, life transitions, occupational stress, and dating & intimate relationships.

- Malarie, LPC is a Black woman who specializes in life transitions, and perinatal health & issues related to motherhood.

Mellany, LPC is a multi-racial, Latina, bi/pans*xual woman who provides services in English in Portuguese who specializes in immigration stressors, in*******al relations, & family relations.

- Sylvia, LSW is a Chinese-American woman who specializes in racial, ethnic, cultural identity exploration, & life transitions.

Community is everything 🦋

Mindful Life Counseling is hosting an open mic on May 17th at Nabala Café! Come join us!!
04/21/2025

Mindful Life Counseling is hosting an open mic on May 17th at Nabala Café! Come join us!!

The wildfires in California are absolutely devastating and our hearts go out to everyone impacted. During this times, we...
01/10/2025

The wildfires in California are absolutely devastating and our hearts go out to everyone impacted.

During this times, we’re reminded of the interconnections between climate disasters and systemic exploitation, intentional neglect, and oppression. Enviromental & climate justice teaches us that harm to the planet directly translates to the harm of people—disproportionately affecting marginalized communities who bear the brunt of these crises while being the least responsible for them!!

As anti-oppressive therapists, we know that healing extends beyond the therapy room, it’s intertwined with the structural harms that create even more environmental and personal traumas.

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