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Hello! Welcome to May’s Newsletter! We want to say THANK YOU for being a member of CAMFT and SCV-CAMFT!

The month of May has many holidays. We had Mother’s Day on May 10th for our LatinX members and May 12 for the rest of our members. We had Cinco de Mayo on May 5th, International Day of Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on May 17th, Vesak Buddha Day on May 23rd, and Memorial Day on May 27th. It is also Asian American Month, the Month of the Child, and Military Appreciation Month. In June, we have Father’s Day coming up. We honor all our members who celebrate any of these events. Our chapter honors all cultures.

We have some sad news. Our Black Therapist and Associate Support Group facilitator, Erika Jenkins, has to stop facilitating the group due to other obligations. We are going to miss Erika. She proposed this group to the board in 2022, and it’s been a wonderful group for Black therapists. We are so grateful to Erika for her contribution to our chapter and members.

You will also see changes on our website when you renew your membership. We have additional choices under gender for our non-binary and trans members. We also added ethnicity. These two areas will not show in your public profile. We are asking for this information so that we can better serve you as members. You can add this information to your profile now. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me via email or phone.

One important note to remember when you renew your SCV-CAMFT membership, the CAMFT bylaws require us to be members of CAMFT for our chapter membership to be valid. Please email us if you have any questions at mail@scv-camft.org.

In this newsletter, you will find the interview titled, “Kids are Superheroes” between our Director-at-Large, Vidur Malik, with Siobhan Cassidy, a child therapist and SCV-CAMFT member who shared her experience and practice with us. You will also find the work of our Director of DEI, Kusum Punjabi, who wrote an article regarding the role of family in the lives of Asian Americans.  She is also responsible for the Cinema Therapy Club.

This month our new Director of Membership, Rachel Costella, held the first Coffee Talk in San Jose. It was a very good one with 11 of us coming together. It was wonderful to see familiar and new faces. We hope to have more coffee talk events at different locations in the Bay Area.

Please check our website to see upcoming events. We have the CAMFT Law and Ethics class on June 5th for 3 CEs. There will be other CAMFT classes in September, October, and November. October, we’ll have Dave Jensen present an in-person, 6 hour law and ethics event. We also have the second part of mother’s series from Jessica Sorci and Rebecca Geshuri, Intimacy with Grief and Shame. Our Director of Programs, Marté Matthews, has lined up some great programs that focus on sex therapy techniques, Brainspotting, and South Asian Mother-In-Law relationship as well as several more topics.

We hope you have a wonderful month. We hope to see you soon at one of our events whether online or in-person.

Liliana Ramos,
SCV-CAMFT President

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