Supervisor Spotlight- featuring Dr. Sachi J. Ananda, LMHC, MCAP (see below)
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Supervisor Spotlight for September
Dr. Sachi J. Ananda, LMHC, MCAP
Dr. Sachi J. Ananda, LMHC, MCAP is a licensed mental health counselor, certified master’s level addiction professional, and clinical sexologist. She is a qualified supervisor for mental health and marriage and family therapists. As an expert in addiction, trauma, relationships and community healing, she provides general clinical supervision as well as specific areas related to inpatient drug addiction work, sex therapy, trauma interventions and first responder issues. Named a “Vietnamese American Pioneer” by Tet in Seattle, Dr. Ananda is an international speaker, award-winning journalist and published author. She has been recognized as an outstanding clinical performer among other clinical organizational awards including outstanding dependability and reliability. Having worn many different hats as a nonprofit fundraiser, newspaper editor/publisher, and community leader, her professional experiences have culminated into clinical management roles such as assistant clinical director and program director of a first responder’s program. Dr. Ananda is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, relapse prevention, sex therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, meditation/mindfulness, family interventions among other innovative therapeutic strategies that go directly to the source of healing mental health disorders. A true therapist at her core, Dr. Ananda embraces the Greek origin of the word therapeia, which means “healing.” Her life mission is to help heal the wounds of disconnection and division that exists among one another and deep within oneself.
Dr. Ananda was born during a traumatic period of significant global division with the Vietnam War where an estimated 2 million lives were lost in Southeast Asia and 57,939 U.S. military. As an infant when the war came to an end, Dr. Ananda was spared the lived experience of witnessing the deaths and destruction that both Vietnamese and U.S. military suffered for two decades. On the very day of the fall of Saigon April 30, 1975, Dr. Ananda’s parents fled Vietnam with their family of 6 where her father described she almost fell into the ocean as he was carrying her while running onto the refugee boat. The family survived the harrowing journey across the Pacific Ocean where they spent three months in Guam and then landed into the welcoming arms of America at Camp Pendleton in California. Her family resettled in Portland, Oregon and she now calls Florida her home. With deep gratitude towards all that she has been given, Dr. Ananda devotes her life to giving back what she can to her clients and guiding clinicians to bring out their best for their careers in helping others.
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