Mack is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified iRest Yoga Nidra meditation teacher, trauma informed yoga teacher and death doula. Mack works with individuals and facilitates therapeutic groups.
About mack
LMFT #149956
Mack is a queer white jewish femme living on Ohlone Land who works from a humanistic and collective liberation lens as a somatic psychotherapist, restorative yoga teacher, death doula and meditation teacher. Mack specializes in working with grief and loss and served as a grief counselor in the bereavement department at Pathways Hospice. Mack is a trained EMDR trauma therapy practitioner and iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation certified teacher.
Mack is a lifelong student of Kashmir Shaivism, nondual meditation, transpersonal psychology and the teachings of jewish non-violence, shomeret shalom. Mack holds a Masters Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from The California Institute of Integral Studies and bachelors degrees in Gender Studies & International Relations from Syracuse University. Mackenzie is a writer and poet, small dog loyalist and enthusiast, karaoke superstar and ocean lover.
my approach
• CONNECTION is the foundation of my practice
• ROOTED IN INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISM AND QUEER THEORY - systemic power and privilege is real and impacts our psychological experience. Oppression and trauma is often the result of structural inequality.
• SOMATIC - we won’t just talk about our thoughts, but we will ground our work together in what things feel like in the body and we value the wisdom of the bodymind. For more info on Somatic therapy, check out my Offerings page
• AFFIRMING of marginalized identities - I trust you as the expert of your experience.
• TRANSPERSONAL - I orient from a psycho-spiritual view of well-being. Our psychological wellbeing is interconnected to our spiritual experience of being human. I incorporate meditation and yoga nidra in my work with clients.
• RELATIONAL & HUMANISTIC - we’ll grow, reflect, and learn together in real time.
• EXPERIENTIAL - I check in regularly because your perspective matters to me. I want to understand what’s working and what’s not, both from your experience and my clinical assessment.