Leslie Rebecca Connell, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LCS 19814

Reba Connell, LCSW, is a Certified Gottman Method Couples’ Therapist, a rare distinction earned by select therapists engaged in intensive study of couples’ research and practice. She has completed several levels of study in teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, including a professional training program under the direction of Dr. Saki Santorelli and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. She is an Honors graduate of Brown University, where she focused on multicultural women's issues, and UC Berkeley, where she researched the connection between depression and pain in women at UCSF. She has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1999. She also writes midrashic poetry, feminist and queer retellings of Torah stories. She offers therapy in English and Spanish. Ella ofrece psicoterapia y consejería en español para parejas, adultos, adolescentes, y la comunidad gay y lesbiana.

(Therapist Photo: Joan Bobkoff Photography, Berkeley)