Clinical Supervisors

Consultant

Sai-Ling Chan-Sew LCSW

Sai-Ling Chan-Sew (SLC Consulting) is a clinical consultant who provides individual, program and system level consultation in health and behavioral health care in areas such as: development and financing of behavioral health services, health/behavioral health integration, system development of culturally competent service system, design and financing of outcome evaluation and continuous quality improvement programs, development of system of care across public and private non-profit agencies and consumer organizations, clinical supervision, individual consultation and advocacy to address disparity and social justice for immigrants.

Ms. Chan-Sew is a bi-cultural & bi-lingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She formerly served as the Director of Child, Youth and Family (CYF) System of Care, Behavioral Health Services, San Francisco Department of Public Health for 16 years whereby she oversaw the CYF integration of children’s mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services under one behavioral health system and created the nationally recognized San Francisco Children’s System of Care, expanding behavioral health services through a combination of intensive care management and evidence-based practices. Ms. Chan-Sew has also been active at the national and state levels in promoting the development of prevention and early intervention services especially for young children. She led local efforts to increase outreach and expand behavioral health service access for Asian and Pacific Islander children, youth and families, as well as homeless and runaway youth.

Ms. Chan-Sew has also served as Program Director at Chinatown Child Development Center, psychiatric social worker in private practice, guest lecturer at San Francisco State University – School of Social Work, and instructor at University of California – San Francisco Extension Program. She is a founding member of Wu Yee Children Services, and holds a master’s degree from University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. Ms. Chan-Sew is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions and has served on many national, state and local boards and commissions.

CLINICAL SUPERVISOR FOR STAFF, NAAPTC DOCTORAL INTERNS, AND PRACTICUM TRAINEES

Flora O. Chan, PsyD

Flora Chan is clinical psychologist at the Adult Outpatient Clinic and a supervisor for the National Asian American Training Center at RAMS.

Clinical Supervisor for Staff, NAAPTC Doctoral Interns, and Practicum Trainees

Sachi Inoue, PhD

Dr. Sachi Inoue is a licensed psychologist serving culturally diverse clients at community mental health organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 20 years. Dr. Inoue is also a psychoanalyst and an analyst member of San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association, and International Psychoanalytical Association. She is committed to creating a bridge between the psychoanalytic community and public mental health arena so that analytic treatment can be more accessible for broader populations, and analytically trained clinicians can provide high quality services to community mental health clients. Prior to joining RAMS as the Director of Adult Outpatient Clinic in 2006, Dr. Inoue worked at Asian Community Mental Health Services for five years as a clinical supervisor. She was also an adjunct faculty and a research project coordinator at California School of Professional Psychology in Alameda. She currently maintains a private practice in Berkeley where she provides psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for adults. Dr. Inoue received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from CSPP-Alameda and completed RAMS pre doctoral internship in 1998.

Clinical Supervisor for Staff

Talia Korenbrot, LMFT

Talia Korenbrot is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, who has been practicing psychotherapy, in both English and Spanish, for twenty years. As a Clinical Supervisor for the Wellness Centers Program at RAMS, she provides supervision for Behavioral Health Counselors at the high school​-​based Wellness Centers, which are located in public schools throughout San Francisco. Ms. Korenbrot has worked at RAMS for over 10 years. She served as a Behavioral Health Counselor, as well as the Behavioral Health Services Coordinator for the Wellness Centers Program. Prior to working at RAMS, she had been working in the area of domestic violence. Her interest in serving the mental health needs of adolescents was fostered through her experience in designing & implementing a dating violence program for adolescent girls. Ms. Korenbrot also maintains a private psychotherapy practice in San Francisco.

Ms. Korenbrot received her BA in Psychology from Cornell University, and her MA in Counseling Psychology in from Boston College.

Group Supervisor for NAAPTC Doctoral Internship

Clara Kwun, LCSW

Clara Kwun is a psychoanalyst and a graduate of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She also maintains a private practice in San Francisco serving adults, adolescents, and children. Ms. Kwun has been a supervisor for California Pacific Medical Center; University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry, Langley Porter; New Leaf Services for our Community; Smith College of Social Work; and New College. She is also the past Director of the former Adolescent Day Treatment Center of California Pacific Medical Center.

Clinical Supervisor for Staff

Nancy Lim-Yee, LCSW

Assessment Supervisor and Assessment Seminar Instructor for NAAPTC Doctoral Interns

Mai T. Nguyen, PsyD

Dr. Mai Nguyen is a bicultural & bilingual (Vietnamese/English) licensed clinical psychologist who has been serving culturally diverse, underprivileged individuals in community-based settings for nearly 10 years. Dr. Nguyen received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, with a Multicultural and Community Emphasis, from CSPP of Alliant International University, San Francisco (AIU-CSPP). Her clinical training has spanned inpatient and outpatient settings, in both the U.S. and Vietnam. She is an alumna of the RAMS National Asian American Psychological Training Center (NAAPTC), an APA-accredited doctoral internship program. Following her training at the RAMS NAAPTC, Dr. Nguyen was a post-doctoral fellow for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. In partnership with Da Nang & Khanh Hoa Departments of Health, NIH, Vanderbilt University, and RAND Corporation, she helped train Vietnamese paraprofessionals, nurses, and physicians to provide treatment for depression in rural primary care agencies. She completed her post-doctoral studies at AIU-CSPP’s Psychological Services Center, where she specialized in psychological assessment and treatment of complex childhood trauma. In addition to her work at RAMS, she is a clinical psychologist at the Golden Gate Regional Center.

Her clinical work is grounded in psychoanalytic theory and conceptualized within cultural, social, and biological aspects of individuals and systems. Her varied clinical interests include working with severely disturbed individuals, complex trauma in children and adolescents, multicultural assessment, developmental disabilities, collaborative therapeutic assessment, personality assessment, psychoanalytic conceptualization in personality assessment, problem gambling, and ecopsychology.

Clinical Supervisor for Staff

Rebecca Peng, LMFT

Clinical Supervisor for Staff

Christina Shea, LMFT

Training Director, Clinical Supervisor for Staff, NAAPTC Doctoral Interns, and Practicum Trainees

Alla Volovich, PhD

Dr. Volovich has been teaching and supervising clinicians-in-training for over 25 years. Her areas of interest and expertise include psychotherapy with severely troubled and fragile clients, particularly those with cumulative childhood traumas, as well as cultural issues in clinical work and supervision. Her theoretical orientation combines object relations and relational psychoanalysis with ideas from the cultural-historical approach to psychology. Passionate about making the benefits of psychoanalytic thought more broadly available to underprivileged communities, Dr. Volovich is extensively involved in the ongoing effort by two local psychoanalytic institutions to make psychoanalysis less exclusionary and more relevant to pressing social issues. As such, she is part of Community Psychoanalysis, an innovative project of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and a core seminar faculty at the Community Psychoanalysis Track for candidates at PINC; she also currently serves as a member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Inclusion/Exclusion Task Force.

Clinical Supervisor for Practicum Trainees and Volunteer Psychological Assistants

Christine Wai, Psy.D.

Dr. Christine Wai is a California licensed Clinical Psychologist with a bicultural and bilingual (Cantonese Chinese) background. Dr. Wai currently works as a clinician at RAMS’ Adult/Older Adult Outpatient Clinic, Child, Youth and Family Outpatient Services, and Asian Family Institute. Dr. Wai received her Doctor in Psychology (Psy.D.) from the Alliant International University-California School of Professional Psychology in Hong Kong and Masters in Education (Ed.M.) specializing in school counseling from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Wai has extensive experiences working in community mental health setting through her pre-doctoral internship at Hamilton Madison House in New York City as well as her post-doctoral internship at RAMS. She is also familiar with working with traditional Chinese individuals and families through her practicum training in Hong Kong.

Dr. Wai has a strong interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy and focuses on Asian American and immigrant populations, providing mental health care to the disempowered and to those with severe mental illness and traumatic past. Dr. Wai focuses also on integrating cultural sensitivity into clinical practice, psychoanalytic theory and familial conflicts surrounding intercultural and intergenerational differences. In addition, Dr. Wai is participating in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Clinical Supervisor for Staff

Richard Zevin, LCSW

Clinical Supervisor for Staff, NAAPTC Doctoral Interns, and Practicum Trainees

Alexander Zinchenko, PhD

Clinical Supervisor for Staff, NAAPTC Doctoral Interns, and Practicum Trainees

Anna Zozulinksy, PhD

Dr. Anna Zozulinsky received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Palo Alto University, with a research emphasis from the Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health at Stanford School of Medicine. She completed her doctoral internship at RAMS’s NAAPTC, and trained at several community mental health organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Zozulinsky serves as director of Child, Youth and Family Outpatient Services and maintains a small clinical practice at Asian Family Institute.

As a trilingual (Russian and Hebrew) and tri-cultural psychologist, Dr. Zozulinsky has particular interests in identity formation across cultural contexts and immigration-related experience and is dedicated to providing culturally-sensitive services to children, youth, families, adults and couples. Her approach is rooted in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. She strives to create warm and safe relationships with her clients, to promote lasting change through collaboration and reflection.

Dr. Zozulinsky holds a B.A.in Cinema Studies from Tel Aviv University and was trained as a photographer at International Center of Photography in New York. She is keenly interested in the intersection between aesthetic experiences, creativity and psychological well-being and incorporates this sensibility in her clinical work.