Shanta Jambotkar

Experience

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  3-Com Corporation

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  Technical Writer
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  Align Technology

  Jun 2000 - Jan 2006

  • Human Resources Specialist & HR Consultant

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  • Technical Writer

    Jun 2000 - Dec 2003
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  Homeless Children's Network

  Feb 2006 - Dec 2006

  Program Director

  HCN provides comprehensive mental health services, case management, early childhood mental health consultation, education, aftercare, and family support services to over 2,000 homeless children, youth, parents, and providers.Program Director: I was responsible for program structure, policy, and procedures for organization's programs; provided support and supervision to clinical staff; served as a liaison between direct service and administrative functions within the agency; supported a partnership with 35 San Francisco agency collaborative members; communicated and responded to input from agency staff, clients, affiliated service providers, and funding sources to ensure appropriate and efficient service delivery within all programs. Show less

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  Support for Families of Children with Disabilities

  Nov 2006 - Jun 2012

  Clinical Care Coordinator, High Risk Infant Interagency Council (HRIIC)

  HRIIC Round Table: First 5 San Francisco Mental Health Program: Mental Health Clinician: Supported high risk families of children with disabilities, trauma, and special health care needs to secure needed services; provided adult service mental health supports for their parents and families as neededClinical Care Coordination: coordinated and facilitated trans-disciplinary and interagency family and provider teams, including child protective welfare, medical, developmental, education, and familysupport agencies; psychosocial assessments of children; intensive partnering with high risk families to assist them to overcome barriers and access critical resources.Supervised and trained a trilingual Round Table Care Coordinator team to provide intensive clinical care and supports for high risk, disenfranchised parents and childrenProvided clinical consultations to: UCSF and SF General Hospital medical teams (pediatrics, specialist units, developmental assessment clinic, and social workers); SF HSA (DHS) Emergency Response, Child Protective, and Foster Care units; SF Community Behavioral Health Service Clinics; Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants in preschools; San Francisco Unified School District providers; community agencies and clinicsConducted trainings, education modules, and outreach to these San Francisco providers about early intervention for children with special health care needs to identify families who could benefit from services, and to ensure involvement of diverse agencies, neighborhoods, and populations Show less

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  New Leaf: Services for Our Community

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2010

  Psychotherapy

  As part of the Psychotherapy Volunteer Program, I provided mental health services for LGBTQ clients: Long and short-term individual therapy, Crisis intervention, Group therapy, Intake evaluation and treatment, Case management brokerage

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  Private Practice

  Jan 2011 - now

  Psychotherapist, Educator, Clinical Supervisor, Organization Consultant

  I provide psychotherapy, education, supervision, and consultation services in my private practice. I teach students and post masters/doctoral practitioners of mental health at post graduate training programs. I provide organizational and clinical consultation and mentorship to programs and clinicians, focused in cultural and social justice informed theory, practice, and treatment with diverse multi-identity communities. I provide supervision for post graduate and mental health clinicians seeking licensure.My psychotherapy work is with individuals, couples, and families with an emphasis on women, non binary, and men of color, queer identified community, immigrant and South Asian identified communities, as well as trauma impacted adults, children, and families. I use healing modalities including psychodynamic relational, culturally attuned attachment informed, and EMDR treatment in my practice.My clinical approach includes gentle support for people to share their most important and challenging personal identities. I hope that our work can address what they want to understand more, or that they can experience their own complex selves in a ways that feel more integrated and less fragmented. I share with my clients my respect and excitement about the power of this work! Show less

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  UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals

  Jun 2012 - Sept 2016

  Child and Family Psychotherapist

  SEED Program, Center for the Vulnerable ChildProvided trauma informed Child Parent Psychotherapy within a social justice framework for children and their families who are involved in the foster care system in Alameda County. The children are survivors chronic or complex trauma, and their families are surrounded by community violence. These children are additionally impacted by the removal from their caregivers through the Child Welfare System. I partnered with families to receive accessible, comprehensive mental health care, and worked with them to name the problems that create emotional and social isolation, both in the service to create paths to healing, wellness, and thriving.Individual and family psychotherapy, home visiting therapy, and crisis interventionsDevelopmental and relationship assessments for children and their caregivers Parent guidance to birth, kinship, and foster familiesTherapeutic visitation and developmental monitoring for children in the foster care systemConsultation to Alameda County Child WelfareCollaboration with families' multidisciplinary providers of their care, including public health nurses, social workers, pediatricians, social workers, attorneys, and community support networks Show less

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  University of California, Berkeley

  Oct 2016 - now

  Psychotherapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker

  Provide psychotherapy through specialty counseling clinic for trauma impacted studentsSupervise post graduate & pre licensed mental health clinicians (ASW, MFT interns)Multicultural Seminar Leader, UC Berkeley Psychology Training Program Areas of Specialty & Treatment:-non-consent, sexual violence, sexual assault-relationship violence, family and intergenerational trauma-chronic health conditions -Intersectionality identities: BIPOC Women, NB/NGC, LGBTQIA communities-South Asian/ SSWANA communities: immigrant, next generations, family & intergenerational traumaTrauma informed mental health workshops for UCB student groupsLet’s Talk (offsite walk in consultations for students) Show less

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  The Psychotherapy Institute

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2019

  TPI Post Graduate Training Group Faculty, Staff Therapist Of Color Mentor

  Co-Lead Socio-Cultural Group in TPI Post Graduate Training Program Staff Therapist of Color Mentorship Program attempts to address issues related to representation, equity and access by taking an active role in addressing and challenging barriers that therapists of color may face in becoming leaders at The Psychotherapy Institute. Mentorship of therapists includes:-Building leadership capacities as an individual of color-Developing a unique voice as a therapist of color-Coping with stress from macro-and micro-aggressions, especially while in training-Support around systemic racism in clinical work-Speaking to the unique challenges of being a therapist of color within a professional milieu-Addressing issues that may emerge as a person of color within a predominately white clinical community Show less

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  The Wright Institute

  Aug 2021 - now

  Adjunct Faculty