Faculty Members of the CMH Program

Program Chair

Steven Tierney, EdD, CAS

Core Faculty

Steven Tierney, EdD, CAS, is the program chair of CIIS’s graduate counseling psychology concentration in Community Mental Health. He holds an MA in Counseling and Social Psychology from Wayne State University and an EdD from Northeastern University.

Steven also has a postgraduate certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy from Boston University. He is a certified addiction specialist who has worked in community-based organizations in Boston and San Francisco for three decades, creating and providing innovative mental health and medical service models for adolescents and transition-aged youth.

Steven’s areas of interest include mental health and HIV, adolescent addiction issues, new community therapeutic models, and access to care/poverty issues in mental health. He has been the principal investigator on several Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS), examining models of adolescent HIV, mental health, and substance abuse services.

Steven will continue research in these areas and looks forward to working with others in the CIIS community who share these interests. Steven is a member of the Health Commission for the City and County of San Francisco.

Fernando Castrillon, MA, PsyD, earned a masters in sociology from the University of California and a doctorate in clinical psychology from CIIS and is a licensed clinical psychologist (CA PSY 24815).

He serves as core faculty in the Community Mental Health Department at CIIS and is the founder and former director of CIIS' The Clinic Without Walls.

Dr. Castrillon is also a candidate analyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in Berkeley, Calif., and is on the editorial boards of the journals Ecopsychology and Universitas Psychologicas, among others.

His clinical, teaching, and research interests include the production of subjectivity (both human and more-than-human), psychoanalysis, community mental health, ecopsychology, poststructuralist social/cultural theory, schizoanalysis, liberatory politics, cosmology, entheogens, the impact of hypervelocity technological change on human psychology and intersubjectivity, the intersection of critical social theory and psychology, contemporary approaches to the treatment of psychosis, xenopsychology, violent political movements, war, terrorism, and revolution.

He recently coedited, with Doug Vakoch, a special double issue of ReVision, entitled "Ecopsychology."

Dr. Castrillon maintains a small private practice in the East Bay and in San Francisco.

Josefa Molina, PhD, received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from CIIS in 1996, is a licensed CA Psychologist (and approved supervisor) and has extensive experience in direct services and program leadership; most recently during 5 years with the Berkeley CA Department of Mental Health where she worked first as Training Director and then as Quality Improvement Program Supervisor. Prior to that she served as the Director of Behavioral Health for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Tucson, AZ where she integrated the substance abuse and mental health programs. Dr. Molina has also worked in local community based organizations, serving as a Program Manager at Instituto Familiar de la Raza and New Leaf: Services for our Community. As the Training Director in the JFKU PsyD program and in the Graduate Psychology Program at New College of CA, she also taught multiculturalism courses, psychopathology, and provided practicum supervision.

Adjunct Faculty

Deborah Yarock, MA, MFT, received her graduate degree in 1991 from CIIS and her undergraduate degree in Human Services from Antioch University in Philadelphia, with coursework at Northeastern University, Boston.

In addition to her position as adjunct faculty at CIIS, Deborah serves as the clinical manager at Episcopal Community Services in San Francisco. She is a staff educator, and primary consultant for mental health issues within the organization. Deborah has worked as a therapist, supervisor, educator, and counselor/case manager in a variety of community mental health settings, addiction treatment centers, and housing facilities for the past 25 years.

She has also maintained a private practice in San Francisco, serving clients and supervising interns for the past 17 years. Deborah’s interests and expertise include sexual abuse trauma, addiction recovery, the therapeutic uses of art and creativity, and the relationship between self-care and care of others.

Naomi O'Keefe, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who received her doctorate from CIIS in 1994. She earned her Master's degree from Sonoma State, while interning as a counselor at San Francisco Juvenile Hall. She has an extensive background in psychodrama, gestalt, and somatic therapies, and teaches courses in group counseling, human sexuality, couple and relationship therapy, clinical hypnotherapy, and dreamwork.

In her private practice in San Francisco, she specializes in couple's therapy for couples of all sexual identities and orientations. Her areas of interest and expertise include helping couples develop the skills to create and maintain long term intimate relationships, utilizing active therapies in groups, and developing training courses for graduate students utilizing clinical hypnotherapeutic approaches.

Melissa C. Anderson, MFT, Ph. D. Neurobiology, received her master's degree in clinical psychology from New College of California in 2001. In 1988 she earned a doctorate in Biomedical Science with a specialization in Neurobiology from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where she studied the biochemical basis of anxiety and trauma. As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she studied Bacteriology and completed a bachelor's of science degree in 1978. In addition to her position as adjunct faculty at CIIS, where she teaches psychopharmacology and provides supervision, Melissa does research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder at Kaiser in Oakland and is in private practice in Berkeley & San Francisco.

Melissa's worked in the areas of sexual assault, rape crisis, domestic violence and elder and dependent adult abuse and maintains an interest in geriatric psychology. In her practice, Melissa's areas of expertise and interest include severe mental illness, trauma and geropsychology. She is also interested in working with creative "blocks" and exploring the generative aspects of trauma. She works from an experience near psycho-analytic perspective integrating ideas from the British Middle School, Freud, Lacan, and feminist & critical social theory with perspectives from neuroscience.

Todd Troutman, MA, PsyD, holds a masters and doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the American School of Professional Psychology. Todd has worked in multiple community mental health settings delivering long-term, depth oriented psychotherapy and neuropsychological assessment to individuals and families in under-served populations. In addition to teaching at CIIS, Todd has a private practice in San Francisco working with adults and children. His clinical areas of interest include relational psychoanalysis; evidenced-based psychoanalytic practice; integration of cognitive-behavioral and dialectal-behavioral techniques in psychoanalytic psychotherapy; child neuropsychological assessment; and interdisciplinary systemic work with children who struggle with nuerodevelopmental challenges. As a professor at CIIS, Todd has taught Psychopathology and Psychological Assessment, Human Development, Treatment of Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness, and Advanced Psychoanalytic Theory:
Relational Perspectives.

Therese Bogan, MFT, finished her MA in Integral Counseling Psychology through CIIS in 2004. Her undergraduate work was focused on postmodern thought in the Cultural Studies Department, University of Minnesota with community study placement through Hamline University. Since 2001, Therese has worked with young people and their families to support their empowerment and integration, after trauma or the discovery of mental illness, in community mental health and private practice. She teaches Sociocultural Approaches to Family therapy and a variety of other courses related to family relationships.
Therese provides clinical supervision for One Family, Community Works West, where the primary goal is for young people to remain connected to their parents during incarceration. Her areas of training and special interest include somatic approaches to trauma, attachment-based therapy with parents and caregivers, and community based programming vision change from deficit to empowerment.