Supervisors

Sentio supervisors are volunteer professionals who are trained through the Sentio Supervision Residency, a year-long intensive that includes over 50 hours of video-based training in the Sentio Supervision Method (SSM), a comprehensive and stepwise deliberate practice supervision model that reliably improves counselors’ clinical skills. Sentio supervisor training includes:

  • How to use DP with trainees at all developmental levels (beginning trainees to licensed therapists)

  • Apply DP across all models of psychotherapy (CBT, psychodynamic, EFT, MI, etc.)

  • Use DP for developing the person-of-the-therapist and inner skills (e.g., countertransference)

  • How to provide the most helpful feedback and keep trainees in the Zone of Proximal Development

  • How to use Routine Outcome Monitoring in supervision

Elisha Geers

Elisha Geers, LICSW specializes in developmental and complex trauma, anxiety, and identity exploration through an integrative, trauma-informed lens. She is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, Certified DBT Professional, Advanced Clinical Trauma Specialist, and a registered hypnotherapist, drawing from existential, humanistic, psychodynamic/attachment, and feminist/queer frameworks. Elisha brings extensive experience across community mental health, veteran services, and digital therapy platforms, providing biopsychosocial assessment, psychotherapy, skills training, and coordinated care to teens and adults. Her clinical interests include generational trauma, multicultural and immigrant/emigrant experiences, BIPOC identity, post-traumatic growth, and body-focused repetitive behaviors. She incorporates EMDR, DBT, Ego State Therapy, Hypnotherapy, and the ComB model in her work. Elisha holds a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and a BA from the University of Washington, and she offers therapy in both English and Japanese.

Jason Brand

Jason Brand, LCSW is a Lead Deliberate Practice Instructor and trainer at Sentio. He is certified in Deliberate Practice Supervision through the International Deliberate Practice Society. In his private psychotherapy practice Jason specializes in supporting the growth and development of men in an increasingly complex world. His work with men includes facilitating a group for fathers of young children. In his couples work, he is certified in PACT (The Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) and serves as a faculty member at the PACT Institute.  Jason lives in Berkeley with his wife of twenty years and their two teenage daughters. Find out more about Jason on his website:www.jasonbrand.com

Lesylette Chevez

Lesylette Chevez, LICSW with over 20 years of experience specializing in trauma-focused care, integrating EMDR, IFS, CBT, ACT, and attachment-based approaches. She has worked across public health, family services, and clinical practice, providing culturally responsive services in English and Spanish while offering clinical supervision to therapist associates. Lesylette’s background includes advanced training through the Complex Trauma Training Consortium, curriculum development and international teaching, and extensive experience in assessment, treatment planning, and risk/safety protocols. She holds a Ph.D. in Counseling and Psychological Studies (Regent University), an MSW in Multi-Ethnic Practice (University of Washington), and a BS in Psychology (Portland State University). EMDR Certified and an EMDR Consultant-in-Training, she has contributed to professional publications and presented internationally on trauma, cultural trauma, and dissociation.

MacKenzie Stuart

MacKenzie Stuart is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with adults, couples, partners, and families. She specializes in nontraditional relationship structures, including polyamory and other forms of consensual nonmonogamy, as well as chronic depression and suicidality. Her other clinical interests include psychosis, psychopharmacology and drugs, LGBTQIA2-S and GNC/non-binary communities, kink and BDSM practices, and sex work. MacKenzie enjoys psychodynamic case conceptualization, the enneagram, biofeedback, narrative and solution-focused interventions, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. She is a member of core faculty at The Wright Institute in Berkeley and leads a private practice in Alameda.