Director of Clinical
Suzanne is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of experience working in community-based organizations utilizing a harm reduction, trauma informed, liberatory approach to clinical practice and community building. She brings both leadership and direct care experience in residential, outpatient, crisis, and field-based community mental health, and has worked extensively with unhoused individuals, and with people who are incarcerated and transitioning home. Suzanne was a leader in launching San Francisco’s first of its kind multidisciplinary non-law-enforcement team responding to 911 behavioral health crisis calls, provided clinical supervision and consultation to four other innovative mobile crisis response programs across California, promoted through a range of roles to Director at CRF Behavioral Health, and served on the Executive Team at an Oakland-based non-profit. Suzanne also brings experience as a therapist in private practice specializing in EMDR and trauma recovery work, as a consultant, and as a poetry facilitator in prisons.
Suzanne completed a BA in Psychology and English from the University of Michigan; an MSW from University of California, Berkeley; a fellowship at the Mack Center on Nonprofit & Public Sector Management at UC Berkeley; and Alliant International University’s Public Mental Health Leadership & Management Training Program.