Pacific Center

Join Pacific Center for our next *free* online Community Didactic Training about Gestalt. Please forward within your networks and community! Register at bitly.com/PCDidactic12622 Niki Khanna MA, MFT is a psychotherapist and educator in the Bay Area, CA. Her focus is working within the Queer, Trans and Intersex communities. She is also a certified Sexual Health Educator and has spent over 20 years working in Sex Education, Sexual Assault and Rape Prevention Education as well ...as Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Education. She identifies as a Femme, Intersex, and POC. She is passionate about finding ways to use the skills she has developed to contribute to the Intersex community. She provides workshops and mental health support to both the AIS-DSD Support Group/ InterConnect and InterAct, two of the largest Intersex support and advocacy organizations in the country. She also sits on the board at interAct. Her current projects are developing practical training modules for mental health providers working with Intersex clients and their families and writing/editing a chapter focused on Intersex for a forthcoming textbook on trauma within the LGBTIAQ+ communities. Course Description: This course is a basic overview of the principles of Gestalt therapy. Gestalt therapy is a humanistic, holistic, person-centered form of psychotherapy. Understanding of these principles is part of the California MFT Licensing Exam.

Accepting Applicants for Pacific Center’s Living Fully with HIV Group A free 9 week social justice process group for adults living with HIV Tuesdays 3:30 - 5 pm PST, February 8 - April 5, 2022 via Zoom Click here to apply... Living Fully with HIV is a recurring Ryan White funded therapy group occurring via Zoom through the Pacific Center for Human Growth. We will discuss topics ranging from Shame & Stigma to Intersectionality. This group is free for folx living with HIV in Alameda County and who are eligible for Ryan White Services. All Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPOC) are strongly encouraged to apply. Group is led by a Black, queer clinician who focuses on non-traditional modalities of healing and co-facilitated by a white, trans, queer and social justice oriented therapist. Our next cohort begins on Tuesday, February 8. To join or for more information please complete the Living Fully With HIV questionnaire. Hope to have you join!

Join Pacific Center for our next FREE, Community Didactic Training about Racialized Trauma. Please forward within your networks and community! RSVP: bitly.com/PCDidactic11322 Course Description: Trauma Informed Care (TIC) - Growing understanding of the neurobiology of trauma and progress in the development of effective interventions to support trauma survivors have increased dramatically in the last decade. From this growth in the body of knowledge, models of TIC in care hav...e risen to meet the challenges of providing effective psychotherapy to those most at risk of suffering the physical and psychological impacts of trauma, particularly in managed and community based settings. In response to provider burn out and high turn over in these setting TIC also aims to improve the working conditions of clinicians and staff exposed to high levels of trauma in their work. This training explores and defines research, theory, and best practices of relationally centered TIC to support providers in implementing TIC in their work to improve client outcomes, instill hope, as well as prevent burn-out. Learning includes lecture, images, text, personal reflection, as well as small group discussion. See more

Join Pacific Center for our next FREE, Community Didactic Training about Racialized Trauma. Please forward within your networks and community! RSVP: bitly.com/PCDidactic1622 Course Description: Healing from Racial Trauma... The roots of racism run deep and impact us economically, educationally, physically and in many other ways, seen and unseen. What is often overlooked are the mental health impacts of Race- based trauma. Self-doubt, hypervigilance, imposter syndrome, anxiety and depression are some of the impacts people of color face. In this training, participants will learn the definition of Race-based trauma, how it presents and how individuals and communities can take steps to heal. Instructor Bio: Chris is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over 20 years experience working with youth and families in Honolulu, Sacramento and Los Angeles. Chris started his career at the YMCA of Honolulu, then had stints as a mobile Crisis Therapist providing suicide and homicide lethality assessment and intervention on the island of Oahu, and worked as a Hospice Social Worker in Sacramento. He is a proud graduate of the California community college system, having graduated from Sacramento City College with two Associates degrees before moving to Hawaii where he obtained a B.A. in Psychology from Hawaii Pacific University, and later an M.S.W. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Since 2014, Chris has supervised the Looking Ahead program at the Actors Fund, which provides supportive counseling and enrichment activities for child professional performers and their families. Additionally, Chris is a therapist in private practice and is credentialed as a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP). He has a passion for youth suicide prevention and has led workshops on suicide prevention, adolescent mental health and coping skills in California, Hawaii and Japan.

This is a peer support group for folks age 18+ living at the intersection of LGBTQIA+ and disability. Current meetings will be held virtually through Zoom every 2nd. Wednesday of the month from 6pm-7:30pm. Email: [email protected]

Pacific Center is pleased to share our new schedule for Grief Groups for 2022. Grief Group is a support group for anyone dealing with loss due to the death of a loved one. Sessions run for 8 weeks. Grief Groups are facilitated and co-facilitated by a combination of LIcensed and Associate Marriage & Family Therapists (LMFT/AMFT) and/or pre-licensed Clinical Interns. For information, email: [email protected].

Pacific Center is seeking a Director of Clinical Programs. Link to the Job description and application is below.

Your opportunity to support Pacific Center and the communities we serve. #WeAreHereForYou #YEA2020

Please RSVP to attend our next online Community Didactic Training is on November 2 @ 10 am. Disordered Eating with M. Raimondo, PhD, MPH

https://www.phi.org//communicating-about-the-covid-19-va/ Please check out PHI's take on how to communicate about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Pacific Center is offering Community Clinical Didactic Trainings free to the community. Our next training is this coming Monday, October 19 with Jaq Nguyen Victor. Click on the link below to learn more about our upcoming trainings and to reserve your ticket.

¡Hola amigos! ¡Queer Latinx se reunirá mañana! ¡Únase con nosotros en nuestra última reunión del año! Comenzará a las 7:00 p.m. en Zoom! Para más información: [email protected]

Upcoming Community Didactic Training - sign up today!

Pacific Center is the non-profit of today’s A’s game!!! Love! https://twitter.com/Athletics/status/1310309035841781761

Pacific Center Executive Director Update http://p0.vresp.com/CKtGIZ #vr4smallbiz

Queer Latinx se reunirá en dos semanas! Comenzará a las 7:00 p.m. el 16 de Diciembre en Zoom!Queer Latinx se reunirá en dos semanas! Comenzará a las 7:00 p.m. el 16 de Diciembre en Zoom!

We love Cafe Buenos Aires! #Community

Tomorrow evening!!

NEW Know Your Rights Guide for Black & Brown Folx, please share widely!

A wonderful history project that includes a timeline of Pacific Center and documentation of ephemera from the early beginnings.

This is beautiful eulogy. As we celebrate the life work of a founding father, John Robert Lewis, and mourn his passing we a rededicated to the work of social justice. #neverbesilent #wehaveamandate #getingoodtrouble

#LoveYourself #PacificCenterLovesYou #Pride #PacificCenter #OaklandLGBTQCommunityCenter #CommunityMatters. #WeGotYou #TogetherWeRise ps. Pacific Center's new interim executive director, Taunya Michelle Black, sent this to staff today! Enjoy!

Parent & Caregivers of Trans & Non-Binary Youth of all ages 2nd Friday each month 7pm -9pm Parent & Caregivers of Trans & Non-Binary Youth of all ages is a safe and confidential peer support group to share thoughts, feelings, resources, and to support one another. It is a drop-in peer group, facilitated by trained peers. If you are interested and/or you want more information: [email protected]