Jia Rebecca Li
Professional Certifications and Licenses
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in the SF Bay Area and working with clients throughout the state of California via teletherapy.
EDUCATION:
– B.S. in Psychology, Beijing University, China
– M.A. in Cognitive Psychology, The University of Chicago
– M.A. in Counseling (Marriage, Family and Child), Palo Alto University
– J.D. in Law, The University of Chicago Law School
SPECIALIZED TRAINING:
Psychotherapy is a continuing journey for therapists as much as it is for our clients. Ongoing training and improvement is my responsibility to you as your therapist and to myself. Recent experiences include:
Grief Therapy/Critical Incident Stress:
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Kara – Grief Support (Palo Alto, CA), 2016-2019
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Basic CISM and Advanced CISM, with Bay Area CISM Team (Janet Childs), 2018, 2019.
Couples Therapy:
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Gottman Institute, Couples Therapy Level I Certificate (2017) and Level II Certificate (2020)
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Couples Institute (Menlo Park, CA), 2019-2020
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Dr. Marty Klein consultation group (ongoing since 8/2020)
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Terry Real consultation group (ongoing since 9/2020)
Contemplative Practice:
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Compassion Cultivation Training, CCARE, Stanford University, 2018
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Compassion Immersion-2, 2018
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Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR), full training, UCSF Osher Center, 2020
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I practice meditation and believe that mindful living brings us joy, compassion and purpose.
AFFILIATIONS and LICENSE:
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Member, CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists)
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Board member and CFO (2021), SCV-CAMFT
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CA License 119101
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERISM
I believe that volunteerism is a beautiful way of cultivating and sharing purpose and love in the community and in my own life.
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Grief support: Kara-Grief Support, group facilitator and community outreach team member (2016-present)
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Equity in childhood education: Family Connections, Board member (2013-14); Program Committee member (2014-2020)
Services Offered
I work with both individuals and couples/families. My work focuses on the following three areas of personal and relational distress. Depression, anxiety and maladaptive coping are common in all these areas.
(1) Grief and Loss:
I work primarily with traumatic, complex and anticipatory grief, both in individual therapy and with families. My clinical work with grief started at Kara, a Palo Alto based grief agency, where for three years I worked extensively with spouse loss, child loss, suicide loss, sudden death, victims of crimes, and other traumatic grief clients. I also facilitated grief groups for spouse loss, suicide loss and teen grief. Outside of my private practice, I remain a member of Kara’s community outreach team and continue to facilitate debriefings for local companies, organizations and families to address difficult death/crisis situations, including, most recently, pandemic impact and hate crimes.
(2) Life Transition:
Transition is our inner process to cope with external changes. I work with phase-of-life transitions including emerging adulthood, new family formation, becoming parents, retirement, and career transition. In addition, I work with individuals on their significant relationship changes. Transition starts with an ending, develops through an often long “in-betweens” before the start of the new beginning. A challenging transition often involves grief and loss about the ending as well as anxiety and ambivalence about the adjustment and future.
(3) Couples Therapy:
This psychotherapy modality puts the relationship dynamics front and center while requiring skilled attunement to each partner. These multiple challenges are often unfamiliar to therapists without training in this modality. I have completed significant training with The Gottman Institute (Level I and Level II) (link) and the Couples Institute (Menlo Park, CA) and more recently, additional specialized training in sexuality and intimacy with Dr. Marty Klein (link). I continue to prioritize professional development in this area, including frequent workshops with leading couples therapists and an ongoing consultation group with Terry Real.
Culture, Race and Ethnicity: My clients are a good representation of the cultural diversity in the SF Bay Area. Cultural issues challenge more than just immigrants (new or old), minorities, or mix-racial families but ALL of us regardless of our race or ethnicity. My experiences as an immigrant or multicultural citizen, living and working in different cultures and places of the world, and developing and transitioning through multiple professional careers have cultivated my capacity for compassion, empathy and curiosity. I genuinely seek to understand each individual, couple and family from multiple lens including family history, socioeconomic background, education, race and ethnicity, culture, gender identity and assumptions, and phase of life.
I offer psychotherapy in both English and Mandarin.
3130 Alpine Road Ste 288, #226 PORTOLA VALLEY CA 94028 United States
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