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.

02/02/2026

Sometimes advocacy looks like participating in your county's Jail Planning Listening Session. In a session where most of the group leaders were either from the county's district attorney's office or contracted architects and builders, it was important to remind people that Sacramento County's jails do not have to be our largest behavioral health service provider.

Many individuals experiencing behavioral health crises avoid seeking care for fear of interaction with law enforcement or being placed under an involuntary psychiatric hold. Investing heavily in services that are delivered in conjunction with law enforcement harms communities of color, discouraging people from seeking services when they are in crisis.

This is part of the reason 40% of our county's jail population is Black despite only making up 9% of our total county population - and 77% of county's jail population consists of individuals with mental illness despite only making up 20% of our total county population.

Instead, Sacramento county should fund approaches that are not attached to law enforcement, including peer-led service navigation, crisis support, and violence prevention. This will create meaningful alternatives to jails and incarceration for those experiencing behavioral health challenges.

I am grateful to be connected with so many powerful advocates that also showed up in this space.

01/26/2026

When the homie and former poet laureate of Sacramento Andru Defeye taps you for his next column in the Great Joy Hunt and asks you if you feel like you’ve got more to give the people, the answer was, “Say less!”

I am extremely honored and humbled to be included in this piece on how things we think may be helping us might really be stealing our joy, and how joy is often waiting for us on the other side of discomfort.

You can read the full piece here: https://www.abridged.org/news/social-media-phones-joy/

On a related note, Andru is fantastic and available for booking conferences, classrooms, festivals, appearances, and activations around the country. He can be contacted at www.AndruDefeye.com // TheGreatJoyHunt@gmail.com

01/15/2026

👩‍🏫 New year, new semester! I am teaching another section of Clinical Practicum Group Consultation and the 4th class in a sequence of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training to 2nd & 3rd year PsyD students at Alliant University. I remain grateful and honored to be on this journey with these students at this specific time in our careers!

01/05/2026

🪧 And just like that…I’m back in the office! 🪧

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

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

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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.