Meet the Team
Nina Yasmin Tarabus,
LMSW
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Nina Yasmin is a LMSW, psychotherapist, postpartum doula and mom of two. She has worked in the field of social work for the past ten years. Nina specializes in trauma as it relates to childhood experiences, birth, parenthood, pregnancy, the postpartum stage as well as postpartum depression and anxiety.
As a psychotherapist she continues to operate from a trauma informed, decolonized, liberation focused lens.
Robin Sempervirens,
LMSW
Pronouns: They/Them/Elle
Robin Sempervirens, LMSW, is a multiracial, queer, trans/nonbinary therapist and artist. They have worked for over five years in direct and clinical services with youth, family, and adults. Their work focuses on attending to the impacts of trauma and building meaning through a liberatory, relational, somatic, and creative framework. Their advocacy work has focused on LGBTQIA+ identity, intergenerational resilience, housing justice, land back efforts, police and prison abolition, and other intersecting causes.
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Josh Espinoza
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Josh provides therapeutic support that brings a trauma-focused lens to the collaborative experience. Josh utilizes methods based in psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and relational therapy to focus on intersectional approaches for support. Josh is ready to join you in your mental wellness journey as a therapeutic ally.
Operations & Marketing Manager
As an independent contractor Laura utilizes the skills acquired during her several years in project management and remote support to offer services as a project manager as well as for a variety of administrative tasks, including translating, social media consulting, newsletters and email campaigns production, website designs, online workshops and events assistance, among other services. Laura understands the needs of other freelancers and small companies who do not count with full time employees but still require support. She believes planning and organizing are vital for any size endeavor and that the most important thing to plan for is change.
Laura A. Alonzo
Dr. Amelia Ortega, LCSW
Pronouns: They/Them
Dr. Amelia Ortega created Amanecer Counseling to meet the increasing need for BIPOC trans and queer-centered psychotherapy. Amelia brings more than twenty years of work experience as a liberation-oriented psychotherapist to Amanecer and specializes in attached-focused EMDR and work with multiracial or mixed-race communities. Amelia is a mixed-Chicanx identified, queer, non-binary provider. Amelia has taught Social Work students at Columbia University, Smith College and Simmons College. Amelia is dedicated to supporting social workers in training and advocating for policy change to reduce barriers to accessing mental health for BIPOC and working-class communities. They currently provide trauma-conscious, somatic focused supervision for clinicians in training, and EMDR consultation.