Dr. Corrine McIntosh, PsyD, LMFT

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Dr. Corrine McIntosh, PsyD, LMFT

After establishing an authentic & compassionate connection, Dr. Corrine works with each client to decrease distress, achieve goals, & increase well-being.

12/23/2025

🌟 Out of Office and Away from Social Media from 12/24/2025 - 1/04/2026 🌟

12/18/2025

It was an honor to be invited to speak at the Sacramento County Behavioral Health Youth Advisory Board last night! I talked about my service on the Mental Health Board, other advocacy pathways, and the importance of intentional self-care for one’s well-being.

The BHYAB have built a respectful, trustworthy space for engagement and collaboration. The members’ creativity, curiosity, courage, and commitment to advancing policy, practice, and program recommendations that impact the well-being and behavioral health of Sacramento youth is inspiring.

If you are aged 14-24 and interested in serving, check them out!

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12/11/2025

👩🏻‍🏫 And that’s a wrap on Fall 2026 semester!

I had the privilege of guiding over 50 PsyD students among three courses this semester: a group consultation class, cultural diversity training, and diversity, equity, and inclusion training. It truly is an honor to witness and help influence the professional growth of these students!

This semester in DEI training, 2nd year PsyD students completed a cultural interview or an advocacy project (their choice) and then presented on it. What a delight it was to hear the intention and humility they poured into their interviews and projects - connecting what they learned to course themes and applying multicultural and social justice counseling competencies in their work. Some even dedicated their time and energy to local orgs I’ve collaborated with - like NorCal Resist, Loaves and Fishes, Asian American Liberation Network, and Gender Health Center.

It's students like these that make me proud to teach. ❤️

And I get to see them all again next semester!

(photo posted with permission)

12/09/2025

After five years of service, I am stepping off the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Valley Psychological Association at the end of this month.

And lately, I have said “no thank you” to multiple opportunities to either join a new Board or serve in leadership positions on ones to which I already belong.

This is my “no thank you” era.

A strategic redirection,

A realignment of my beliefs and values,

To harness my ‘no’ as a superpower,

To reclaim my focus, my energy, my resources

To make space and play in the in-between.

Doesn’t mean I will say no to everything,

It means I chose integrity and intentionality

to see where I want to pour my love next.

Thank you, SVPA, for the trust you placed in me for the past five years. My tending to the organization and community has truly been a labor of love.

What have you said no thank you to lately?

11/24/2025

📢 Sometimes advocacy looks like helping to organize and facilitate conversations with community partners whose voices tend not to be represented.

Did you know that very little county general funds are used for public behavioral health services? The Behavioral Health Services Act, created through Proposition 1 (2024), replaces the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which is what pays for most public behavioral health services.

Compared to the MHSA, the BHSA increases the state’s focus on individuals experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness. Each county must submit a three-year plan for all public behavioral health (BH) services, including Medi-Cal. The IP acts as a roadmap for how a county will allocate resources and deliver services over the three-year period. Plans must reflect local community needs and priorities, requiring community engagement during the planning process.

Earlier this month, the community conversation that I have been helping to plan in my role as community mental health advocate occurred. This virtual focus group, hosted by , , , and provided an opportunity to collect community perspectives and insights on local behavioral health priorities and needs that should be included in our county’s IP.

The overall theme heard: the need to invest in addressing the root causes of health disparities for culturally and linguistically diverse/underserved communities.

People don’t refuse help. People refuse help that isn’t helpful. We need less one-size-fits-all models. We need more culturally responsive care.

11/19/2025

🏛️ Sometimes advocacy looks like court watching…

More than just a type of field observation to better understand the complexity and inner workings of the criminal legal system, court watching is a powerful tool in participatory defense.

It’s a way to uncover inequities and injustices, and challenge mass incarceration by standing with community. Simply being present in the courtroom as a collective, court watchers “push back against the established power dynamics.” They aim to hold courtroom actors accountable, bringing a measure of transparency to a system that is often opaque (Dholakia, 2025).

As I entered the courtroom’s gallery on the 15th floor, I was immediately struck by how just about every single person on the other side of the divider was white - all of the prosecuting attorneys, some of the defending attorneys, the stenographer, the bailiff, the judge.

As I heard the ratcheting of handcuffs being tightened and the metallic clanking of chains swaying around bodies as the people facing the judge were escorted from a very dark, tiny room to the large bright courtroom, I was also struck by how every individual that morning being led before the judge was a person of Color facing a drug-related offense.

One entered a plea. Two had their cases extended - one extension was due to the long wait time for the individual to receive interpreter services to help with his defense. One was facing a life sentence that was significantly reduced.

11/17/2025

🥳Exciting News! I took Silver in the 2025 Sacramento Favorites for Best Mental Health Services!🥳

🥈 I am honored and truly humbled by this recognition. I was the only solo practitioner among a dozen or so groups and organizations nominated. As I stated previously, a vote for me is a vote for all of us independent practitioners doing amazing work day in and day out, helping to improve the quality of people’s lives while also managing a small business that is private practice. Making our own schedule. Funding our own health insurance, vacation, sick days, retirement. Doing our own taxes. Negotiating our own office leases. Doing our own public relations and marketing. Without public recognition, and while also trying to have some quality in our own lives.

🥈And for me to earn this recognition means that folks believed in me so much that they took time out of their days to vote for me not just once, not just twice, but every single day until the voting period closed.

🥈Thank you for making me one of Sacramento’s 2025 Favorite Mental Health Service Providers!

You can check out all of the Sacramento Favorites 2025 winners here: https://www.sacramentofavorites.com/categories/2025

11/11/2025

My birthday was last week.

The weeks leading up to - and the day of - my birthday alway find me very reflective. I think back on how stressful my birthday was for me during my childhood and adolescence - wanting things which, at the time, felt like I didn’t deserve but really it was that my family couldn’t afford, then feeling guilty for having wants. As a teenager, it was wondering if my absent father would remember it was my birthday and call me or visit me - then feeling guilty for feeling angry when he would eventually call or visit.

It was the time shortly after my birthday, as a teenager, using the payphone on my high school campus to call the National Su***de Prevention Hotline - struggling to remember the 10-digit number then hanging up when someone answered because somehow hearing another person’s voice on the end of the phone suddenly felt like my problems weren’t that important to bother someone with.

It was the time shortly after my birthday that same year when I was admitted to the adolescent unit at a local psychiatric hospital for not wanting to be alive..

There was a time when I didn’t think I would live to see my 21st birthday.

This year, I turned 49.

So last week, on my birthday, when I saw the 988 and Sacramento County Community Wellness Response Team banner on the back of the bus driving through my neighborhood, I pulled my car over and cried.

Tears of relief for seeing something I worked so hard for the past five years to make happen. Tears of sadness for the child and teenager that didn’t want to live. Tears of pride for the adult woman that transformed pain into purpose. Tears of hope for all those who will know about these resources and won’t be alone in their pain.

988 Su***de and Crisis Linelife:https://988lifeline.org/
Sacramento County Community Wellness Response Team: https://dhs.saccounty.gov/BHS/Pages/CWRT/Community-Wellness-Response-Team.aspx

#988

11/05/2025

“Dr. Sako, don’t forget to wear your J’s tomorrow for class.” Bet.

For me, teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training to students in a clinical psychology doctoral program isn’t just about lecturing on the subject.

It’s about being about it - challenging traditional dress codes, representing individual expression, creating common ground across different backgrounds, and fostering a more inclusive environment that invites all to show up authentically.

Besides, this heat gots to be let out the box every now and then!

10/29/2025

ONE WEEK!

Come join us on November 5th from 12:00-1:30pm PST for a talk on Liberation Psychology Principles in Clinical Practice with Satveer S. Kier, PhD.

Sign up today!

https://www.cpapsych.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=Nov5-2025

10/28/2025

I drive past this digital billboard 2 times a day, 3-4 times per week. Today, I had to stop and take a photo 🥰

"If you need to talk, the 988 Lifeline is here. At the 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline, we understand that life's challenges can sometimes be difficult. Whether you're facing mental health struggles, emotional distress, alcohol or drug use concerns, or just need someone to talk to, our caring counselors are here for you. You are not alone."

If you are in Sacramento County and need an in-person response to help de-escalate a behavioral health crisis, 988 is the number that connects you with the Sacramento County Community Wellness Response Team - where a behavioral health clinician and a peer support specialist can provide in-person support for whatever you're going through.

And now folks traveling along Exposition Blvd. - as well as the Capital City Freeway - will know about 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline!

#988

10/23/2025

Sometimes engaging in advocacy looks like helping to make opportunities for others to engage in advocacy accessible...

I am grateful to Kristy Lunardelli for the invitation to speak last week at the quarterly meeting of the Sacramento County Behavioral Health Collaboration. This amazing group of local community providers consists of CEO's, social workers, advocates from the state office of patient's rights, physicians working in acute psychiatric facilities and emergency departments, public defenders, and other local community providers that come together for a stronger behavioral health system.

Not many people know that what was formerly the Mental Health Board and the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board is now the Sacramento County Behavioral Health Commission. Many people don't know about the Behavioral Health Commission, what its mandates are, who serves on it, and what it is supposed to accomplish. Many people don't know how to attend and participate in these advisory board meetings, how to provide their feedback on the county behavioral health care system, and what happens to their feedback once it is provided.

I was able to bring my knowledge and insight, as well as instill energy and strengthen community partnerships, by sharing about how people can engage with the Behavioral Health Commission to help support individuals in Sacramento County that experience behavioral health challenges.

And most importantly - by attending this meeting, I was able to learn about the current climate for our community providers.

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About Dr. Corrine

Dr. Corrine McIntosh earned her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from California State University, Sacramento in 2003 and became licensed in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2006. Due to her passion for knowledge & desire to be the most equipped to help others, she went on to earn her Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University in 2014 and became licensed as a Psychologist in 2019.