Percy Raynier Castellanos

Education & Experience

In 2011, I received my Masters of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2014, I became licensed by the state of California’s Board of Behavioral and Sciences to practice psychotherapy as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). My license number is 64671. During graduate school, I provided bilingual (English/Spanish) individual, family and group psychotherapy to adolescent patients, and their families, in an in-patient psychiatric hospital, and to children, adolescent, adult, and elderly clients in an outpatient, community mental health clinic. After graduate school, I provided bilingual (English/Spanish) individual, family, and group psychotherapy to adult and elderly clients living with mental illness, substance abuse, and acute and chronic illness in integrative, multidisciplinary community mental health and medical hospital settings. I am an integrative therapist who believes in treating the “whole” person (mindbodyheartspirit), and the impact of the systems they belong to. I apply several lenses, including, but not limited to trauma-informed, attachment-focused, consent-based, anti-oppressive, poly- and kink-affirming, culturally- and linguistically-responsive. I first trained in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in 2012 and have since expanded my understanding and practice of this approach. I integrative my multiple lenses of attachment and somatic into EMDR. In addition to EMDR, I have trained in other approaches, which include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and more. I continually seek educational training and consultation to expand my clinical experience. I work collaborative with my clients and utilize techniques from several modalities to help them reach their goals.