ABOUT

California anxiety therapist

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Mia Turner, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Yoga Instructor, and Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist, from the Bay Area, California, founded Yaarah Therapy & Wellness Services to address the need for culturally-specific, trauma-informed mental health treatment options, that promote strengths, unity, validation, and hope for diverse and traditionally marginalized communities, and folks who identify as African American from the African Diaspora, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), Neurodiverse/Neurodivergent, Disabled/Differently Abled, LGBTQIA+, and from traditionally marginalized communities. 

Due to systemic oppression, residuals of ancestral/ generational trauma, and African American and BIPOC communities being under and inappropriately served, Yaarah Therapy & Wellness Services is intentional in offering services through an integrative, individualized, multicultural, Neurodiversity-affirming, and Afrocentric lens to multiply marginalized folks who might feel more comfortable working with a therapist who has similar cultural and lived experiences.

Approach

  • Intentional in meeting you where you are in your path and process towards progress in creating the life you deserve.

  • Integration of expressive and cultural practices, including use of various art medium, modes of story-telling, and humor to help you process experiences and find restorative peace and joy. 

  • Eclectic collaboration of Liberation Psychology, EMDR, Narrative, Mindfulness and Somatic practice, Parts / Internal Family Systems (IFS), Expressive Arts, Existential, Spiritual, Humanistic, Harm Reduction,  Emotionally Focused Therapy, Geek Therapy, Psychodynamic, Play, Depth, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, KAP, Behavioral Therapies (DBT, CBT, ACT, REBT), Family Systems, and Attachment and Relationship based theoretical orientations.

 

If this sounds like a good fit for you, let’s chat.

Mia’s Professional experience

 

Mia Turner is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, holding a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, with a Concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy, from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA.

Mia is fully trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapy.

Mia is a fully trained Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and Ketamine Assisted Therapy Provider. Mia completed training with Alchemy, Journey Clinical, and Fluence. clinical.

Mia is trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.

Her professional experience in the field includes working with community mental health agencies, non-profit foundations, and educational and research institutions. In addition to providing psychotherapy, Mia is a certified RYT-200 Yoga instructor, Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist, and she provides coaching, consultation, trainings, professional development mentorship and supervision for pre-licensed clinicians. Her experience also includes organizing community healing offerings, guest-speaking for mental health events and podcasts, and facilitating mindfulness, somatic, yoga, trauma skills, HipHop- narrative therapy, and parent-education groups, and she was a previous stakeholder for the African American Steering Committee for Health and Wellness (AASCHW) for Alameda County, California from 2020-2022.

Board of Behavioral Sciences, Licensed Marriage and Family therapist #124914

California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy International Association #100255325

"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion."

— Bell Hooks, “All about Love,” p. 215.