About Cristina

I am a trilingual (English, Italian, and Spanish) licensed clinical social worker with over a decade of clinical experience in the field of trauma treatment.

I found my path to clinical work by way of working with immigrant children and families across Southern Europe, South West Asia and North Africa, and East Africa. I was interested then in the ways conflict – both at the level of intimate and familial relationships and at the level of large-scale violence – causes long-lasting suffering across communities and generations.

That interest led me back to graduate school, and I graduated from UC Berkeley with a Master’s in Social Work in 2014. Since then, I have trained and worked at the UC San Francisco’s Trauma Recovery Center, first as a clinician and, for the past several years, as a clinical lead, supervising a team of about fifteen clinicians who work with survivors of interpersonal violence. 

In addition to my direct clinical and supervisory work, I am core faculty at The Wright Institute’s Master’s in Counseling Psychology program in Berkeley, California, where I mentor aspiring clinicians and I teach graduate-level courses on trauma treatment, the care complexities of community mental health, and therapeutic interventions in the aftermath of family violence.