Clinical Staff

Clinical DirectorArmand Volkas MFT, Clinical Director, Living Arts Counseling Center

Armand Volkas, MFT

Co-founder, SupervisorMerry Ross, MFT, Co-founder & Supervisor, Living Arts Counseling Center

Merry Ross, MFT

 

Founded 13 years ago by Clinical Director, Armand Volkas, MFT, and Merry Ross, MFT — the Living Arts Counseling Center is staffed by experienced and well-trained clinicians with a variety of educational backgrounds.

Direct client services are provided by licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Interns, and Trainees, as well as licensed Clinical Social Workers. Trainees and interns are supervised by licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. Supervisors have certifications in expressive arts therapy, drama therapy or psychodrama.

Marriage and Family Therapist Interns & Trainees

 

Alethia Olmedo Perlasca, MFT Trainee, Living Arts, Low cost sliding scale East Bay therapy Alicia Stephen, MFT Trainee, low cost sliding scale therapy   Cary Okano, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy   James Curry, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy

Alethia Olmedo

MFT Trainee

Alicia Stephen

MFT Trainee

Amelia Kriss

MFT Trainee

Cary Okano

MFT Intern

Ilya Parizhsky

MFT Trainee

James Curry

MFT Intern
Jennifer Stuckert, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy Jerri Lee Young, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy Jessica Engle, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy Juliet Osborne, MFT Trainee, low cost sliding scale therapy Katrina Curry, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy Kitzie Winship, Living Arts Counseling sliding-scale low cost therapy, MFT Trainee

Jennifer Stuckert

MFT Intern

Jerri Lee Young

MFT Intern

Jessica Engle

MFT Intern

Juliet Osborne

MFT Intern

Katrina Curry

MFT Intern

Kitzie Winship

MFT Trainee
  Michelle Chang, low cost sliding scale East Bay drama arts therapist   Pella Schafer Weisman, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy Roni Alperin, low cost sliding scale East Bay drama therapist

Lauren Weiss

MFT Intern

Melissa Courter

MFT Intern

Michelle Chang

MFT Trainee

Noa Grayevsky

MFT Trainee

Pella Schafer Weisman

MFT Intern

Roni Alperin

MFT Intern
Sarah Harkness, Living Arts, Low cost sliding scale East Bay therapy Sefora Janel Ray, MFT Trainee, low cost sliding scale therapy Tessa Sugarbaker, MD, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy Tina Mizukami, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy    

Sarah Harkness

MFT Intern

Sefora Janel Ray,

MFT Trainee

Tessa Sugarbaker, MD

MFT Intern

Tina Mizukami,

MFT Intern		    

 

Licensed Psychotherapists

Amanda Gibbon, MFT at Living Arts Counseling Center Andrea Walter. MFT at Living Arts Counseling Center Ariel Adams MFT, Living Arts Associate, Women at Midlife & Beyond Armand Volkas, MFT | Living Arts Clinical Director Christopher P. White, LCSW at Living Arts Counseling Center Jill Eickmann, MFT at Living Arts Counseling Center
Amanda Gibbon, MFT Andrea Walter, MFT Ariel Lexina Adams, MFT
 Armand Volkas, MFT RDT/BCT
 Christopher P. White, LCSW Jill Eickmann, MFT
Maria Steinmann, MFT at Living Arts Counseling Center Merideth Bowen Shamszad, MFT at Living Arts Counseling Center Merry Ross, MFT at Living Arts Counseling Center Mireya Alejo, MFT at Living Arts Counseling Center Cheryl Leong, MFT Intern, low cost sliding scale therapy  
Maria Steinmann, MFT Merideth Bowen Shamszad, MFT Merry Ross, MFT Mireya Alejo, MFT Cheryl Leong, MFT


 

General Staff

Development & Marketing

 

 

Administrative Director

James Curry, MA MBA

Our general staff provides quality service to our therapist interns, licensed therapist associates, our clients, and the therapeutic community at large.


Our Administrative Director, James Curry, ensures that both Associates and Interns receive the administrative, bookkeeping, and structural tools to keep the Center running smoothly as a whole.

 

 

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