Meet Our Addiction Treatment Team

I have been passionately working as a substance abuse counselor since 2012, and I am an LAADC (Licensed Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor) with CCAPP and a Psychological Associate (psychologist in training) with the California Board of Psychology under Dr. Heather Kaplan-Santos. In addition to the thorough experiential research I conducted personally on the streets of the San Francisco Tenderloin after dropping out of UC Berkeley when I was young, I also completed an associate degree in substance abuse counseling in 2015, a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2018, a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine in 2020, and another master’s degree in clinical psychology with an emphasis in depth psychology in 2023 at Pacifica Graduate Institute. I am a Ph.D. candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute, working on my doctoral dissertation, and the wife of Transformations Care’s Executive Director, Jason Smith. I primarily employ a humanistic, psychodynamic therapy orientation as a therapist and manage the mental health outpatient track at Transformations Care.