S-KAP Clinicians

Marni Levy, LMFT
Hi there! I’m Marni Levy. I’m the founder and Clinical Director of True Yang Therapy and the creator of the S-KAP approach.

I’m all about the aha moments that grow out of a desire to grow and expand. I’m someone who knows some things and knows enough to know that I know very little! My own personal journey of growth includes messing up, growing pains, trying again, laughing at it all, crying about it alI, celebrating the whole thing, and doing the whole human experience thing with other sweet, caring humans.

I was raised by an immigrant parent (Moroccan) and a first gen immigrant parent (Hungarian). In my early years I was praised for achievements and taught the way of survival. While grateful for all I was given, I found the road to freedom was in the healing of traumas- incurred in my own family and through social constructs. I love working with children of immigrants and engaging with the lineage of a person as an agent of healing and growth.

As a lifelong dancer and meditator in the Soto Zen tradition, I’ve learned to tune into the wisdom of the body, to attend to the emotions, needs, and expressions. My work in private practice is based in a Mindfulness/Somatic approach called Hakomi. I teach workshops and other community events in and around the bay area.

It is a true honor to “co-shepard” a healing and growth process in my work with you. In our work together we will tune into your own innate wisdom as we simultaneously hold and heal the younger, wounded parts. My approach has a heart-centered nurturing flavor, an encouraging, spiritual cheerleader, and a light-hearted humor creative.

My passion for this journey with you is nourished in our connection.

Kiri Maura McCart, LPCCA

I’m Kiri, a biracial, bisexual, polyamorous, and neurodivergent woman originally from California. I come from a family of divorce and have a blended family of my own. My passion lies in helping people on their path to healing and growth, navigating life’s complexities, fostering better connections with themselves and others, and cultivating a profound sense of wholeness, inner peace, and life purpose. I love to work with folks who have intersecting identities, live alternative lifestyles, have unique perspectives, and/or face marginalization. I am fascinated by how nature and nurture weaves its magic little web to create all of us unique human creature, and that which enables me to embrace and except all walks of life, regardless of one’s gender, race, belief system, culture, economic station, body, profession, or country of origin.

I am a Professional Clinical Counselor Associate with a Master’s in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. I have a Bachelors in Sociology from UCLA. I use a collaborative and culturally sensitive style informed by relational, somatic, attachment, existential, and trauma-informed approaches. I hold a social justice and multicultural approach to counseling, which means I acknowledge that many of our struggles and traumas exist within a framework of systemic oppression. I am trained in Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Pyschotherapy, and Hakomi, and consider those to be my primary therapeutic modalities paired with mindfulness-based somatic approaches. I have extensive training and experience working with suicide ideation and crisis intervention. I also specialize in Ketamine-Assisted Therapy.

I bring my humanness, curiosity, and sense of humor to the therapeutic space. My authentic nature is very Kirious, silly, sweet, caring, reflective, earthy, firey, wild at times, but mostly chill and laid-back. Buddhism has been my pathway to healing, and is my bedrock in challenging times. I also believe in a higher power, and consider myself to be a mystical and spiritual person. We may hold different spiritual, religious, or belief systems, and that’s okay! In fact, I love to work with clients from different backgrounds and beliefs systems as it gives me an opportunity to expand my awareness beyond what I know or believe to be true.

I find that the most effective therapy is one where there is space to process both difficult emotions and the ways in which people have become resilient in the face of adversity. I don’t want my clients to leave a session feeling down about themselves or burdened. I want them to walk away with insight and a path forward, and to feel a sense of joy, peacefulness, or acceptance at the end of every session. I dearly love to laugh, and I have found humor and joy to be some of the best remedies for life’s struggles. You’ll find that working with me can be fun and engaging at times. 

In sessions, I offer practices and exercises meant to provoke your innate curiosity about yourself. I find this to be a much more gentle and compassionate approach to self-inquiry, rather than focusing on “what’s wrong with you.” When we inquire within with compassion and kindness, we are able to create more spaciousness around the parts of you that are locked away, hidden, or repressed. We bring these exiled parts of you into your conscious awareness and embrace them with understanding, curiosity, and kindness. I consider Loving Kindness to be the key ingredient to effective therapy and self-healing.

Supervised by Marni Levy LMFT 99850

Amanda Saint-Louis, AMFT

I come from a background of 17 years as an ICU nurse.  After two decades at the bedside tending to people’s physical trauma within a broken healthcare system, I shifted my passion in offering healing services into healing emotional wounds, and specifically through a holistic lens. In my own discovery process I have come to the truth that we live in a fast-paced world that demands more of us that we are willing or able to give. When I stopped long enough to listen to the messages my body gave me, I was finally able to tend to myself and others in a more meaningful and sustainable way. It is from this place that I find myself here, eager to share this deep inner-knowing with those who crave peace, healing, and freedom from the pains, burdens, and challenges.

My somatic approach to therapy draws on my knowledge of the physical form, trainings in Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Hakomi, Polyvagal Theory, and is deeply rooted in the frameworks of Radical Self-Acceptance, Social Justice, Anti-Oppression, and Decolonizing/Liberation Psychology. I have a passion for "healing the healers”– who give themselves to others and find themselves without the same loving support that they give every day. I hold a tender space for those who yearn to have their lived experiences validated by others and want to deconstruct/reconstruct limited belief systems holding them back from living authentically. I welcome the perfectionists and people-pleasers who are seeking the permission to love themselves more deeply. I bring compassionate curiosity to the physical manifestations of anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma that often start a person’s journey in therapy, growth, and transformation.

The therapeutic relationship is a profoundly sacred one, and I look forward to being a loving witness and supporter of your personal metamorphosis.

Supervised by Marni Levy LMFT 99850

Carrie Katz, LMFT
It is a gift to be able to provide ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for people who are seeking help outside of the traditional frames of psychotherapy. Many people who work with me have had years of talk therapy, which may have been helpful, but they still feel stuck in their lives. Insight has often times not brought the change people have been seeking. I offer a warm, safe environment for healing and transformation to unfold. My work involves somatic (body-oriented) and other non-verbal ways of working, like expressive arts, which, in addition to ketamine, help get beneath the logical, linear mind to deeper layers of the Self that long for healing. Many people who work with me tell me that the somatic and expressive arts work we do in the preparatory sessions is different than therapy they've done and hugely helpful, even before we begin working with the ketamine. 

In addition to my experience as a psychotherapist for over twenty-five years, and fifteen years previously as a bodyworker, I have completed an 8 module training program for Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at Polaris Insight Center, as well as advanced training at Healing Realms Center for Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, both in San Francisco. I have also been trained and certified by MAPS — the The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies — as an MDMA therapist. I am the co-founder for GoldenWeave Network for Ethical Psychedelic Practices, a network of ketamine-assisted psychotherapists, social workers, medical doctors, psychiatrists, and trainers, who consult with each other to continue to further our education and ongoing training in this pioneering field so that we may bring the most cutting edge services to our clients, in a safe, ethical, and friendly environment.

I look forward to getting to know you and together, finding new pathways for healing and change.

Angela Allan, AMFT

I became a therapist after recognizing that Buddhist meditation contained profound guidance for mental health. I gained additional training to work with trauma, which we all carry in some form. I am deeply committed to social justice, informed by the awareness that overlapping systems of oppression harm our psyches, our communities, and the Earth.

I see myself as a co-collaborator in your healing process. My goal is to focus on your relationship with you: how do you speak to yourself? How do you detach from yourself or neglect yourself? How do you tend to your spirit, body and mind? The questions I ask are meant to stir wise parts of you that are in the shadows. I believe everyone has an inner healer who can be brought to light.

Supervised by Marni Levy LMFT 99850

Allison Zamani, LMFT

You are on a journey.  I offer a safe container for you to explore where that journey takes you.  I adopt a depth approach to psychotherapy that starts from a place of compassion and respect.  I am influenced by spiritual teachings as well as my own study of the subtle body and non-ordinary states of consciousness. Work with me begins and ends with what you need. I am excited to be with you on this step of the path. 

Maya Lane, LMFT
I am honored to be an award-winning therapist who has worked with hundreds of clients over the past 2 decades. Having grown up in a family that struggled with mental health and depression, I have always been interested in going deep with people. I believe in compassion. I love giving people opportunities to be seen and heard.

I started my journey to study the psyche as a way of healing myself and my family, to understand the process of undoing past wounds and sabotaging patterns. The changes that I have seen in my sense of self are incredible and I am inspired to share this possibility with others.

I continue to be humbled and honored by the transformation that I get to see with my clients every day. I believe in this work and it is my greatest privilege to work with people like you.

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