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Our Journey and Commitments
At The Center for Collective Liberation, we are on a transformative journey to promote well-being and social justice. We commit to continuous learning and growth. We strive to listen, collaborate, and be accountable for our privileges and the harms we have directly and indirectly caused. We will focus on a reflexive process and honor intersectionality and cultural humility in all of our practices
We value growth over comfort.
Meet Nalini Calamur, LMFT
(MFT128469)
Meet J Dawgert
Carlin, LMFT (MFC34178)
Nalini Calamur (she/her/ella) is a licensed psychotherapist, and a certified supervisor of addiction treatment professionals (SQV CCAPP). Nalini is a multilingual, multiethnic, cisgender, pansexual person who has a passion for working with multicultural and/or queer relationships and families.
She has extensive experience in community mental health and substance abuse treatment, including residential and intensive outpatient (IOP) settings, with a focus on harm reduction approaches. She works from a relational, attachment-based, and experiential framework.
Nalini has advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Multidimensional Family Therapy, substance abuse treatment, and more. She is also a college instructor in Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy.
As a Director of County wide Programing, Nalini has managed large teams, overseen multimillion-dollar federal and state budgets, navigated complex compliance requirements, and developed and launched innovative human service programs.
J Dawgert Carlin (they/them/elle) is an educational and organizational consultant and licensed psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience in community mental health, carceral environments, public schools, higher education, and mental health practice.
They been a professor of psychology, a community college administrator and an organizational psychology consultant to non-profits and public institutions where they focus on on cultivating, nurturing, and growing leaders with a social justice mindset.
J's clinical training and experience has focused on adolescent and adult psychotherapy, anti-racist practices, brief and indepth treatment modalities, disability and chronic illness mental health, EMDR, Emotion-Focused Therapy, gender-affirming care, Gottman Relationship Therapy, Imago Couples Therapy, LGBTQIA+ culture, the impacts of systemic oppression, and other areas.
J is completing doctoratal research in multiply marginalized transgender leaders.
Meet Lena Murphy, AMFT
Meet Olivia Ponnini, LMFT
Lena Murphy, (they/she), MA, AMFT, APCC
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #150896
Lena is a Black, Queer, relational therapist.
Lena uses trauma-informed, somatic, and mindfulness-based approaches with specific focus on LGBTQIA+ & gender expansive, BIPOC, non-monogamous, neurodiverse, complex trauma histories (C-PTSD), and those one the ace/asexual spectrum. Lena specializes in supporting individuals, couples, and groups on a journey of deep healing and transformation. Their approach is grounded in understanding how trauma impacts the nervous system and how reconnecting with your body can lead to lasting recovery. Learn More
Olivia works with adults individuals, families, and adolescents. Common topics are stage of life changes, anxiety, trauma, relational challenges, stress, depression, and identity development (sexual, gender, and more). Their approach has its foundations in relational work, psychodynamic therapy, attachment theory, and trauma-informed practices. Folks working with Olivia can expect a stance informed by liberation for all, Health At Every Size (HAES), harm reduction, disability justice, 2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy, and decriminalizing mental health.
Olivia Donnini, (they/she,Elle/Ella), MA, AMFT, APCC (supervised by Nalini Calamur)
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #143430, Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #15408