Sessions
Breakout Session 1: Rooted in Culture: Introspection and Relationship Building
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Tue
Keynote: Indigenous Approaches to Mental Wellness Workshop
9:15 AM - 11:00 AM Wed
Robyn Gomez Licensed Clinical Social Worker 96526 is a Huichol /Xicana born and raised on Tongva and Tataviam lands, known today as the Northeast San Fernando Valley. She is a graduate of the University of California Davis Continuing & Professional Education, Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Program and Reflective Supervision Academy. Received her master’s degree in social work, MSW from the University of Southern California. Robyn utilizes strengths-based approaches, clinical interventions, and ZERO TO FIVE core knowledge skills to engage families and the community through holistic Indigenous worldviews approaches, ancestral healing, and social justice advocacy. She believes in the power of relationships, increasing the parent-child dyad, and facilitating one’s inner healing towards growth, transitions, and identity development. Robyn is certified in the following evidence-based practice modalities: Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ages 3yrs and up with a specialty in grief and loss, Parent-Child Interactive Therapy, Positive Indian Parenting, Newborn Observation, Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics Training Certification through the Phase I level, and NCAST Parent-Child Interaction Feeding Scale observable behaviors that describe caregiver/parent child interaction. She has years of experience utilizing therapeutic interventions such as Reflective practice, EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, Problem-Solving, Perinatal mental health, and other evidence-based treatment models. Robyn is a bilingual therapist able to provide services in Spanish.