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Mae Madge Mendoza Howard, LCSW, RPT is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker,
License # 74977 and Registered Play Therapist #T4301. She is a career
changer. Her undergraduate degree is from CSU San Marcos in international
business management. She received her Masters of Social Work Degree from
the University of Southern California. She uses this experience to help
understand different cultures and communication that may pertain to
possible difficulties of her clientele. She is proficient in Spanish and Tagalog
and continues to work to improve on her proficiency. Mae moved from the
Philippines when she was 8 years old and grew up primarily in North San
Diego County.
Mae and her family faced many adversities living in the United States for the
first decade of their lives. She understands the complexity of immigration,
acculturation, and assimilation. She takes this experience within her practice
to provide a more empathic and understanding approach towards working
with different cultures. Mae’s social work background ranges from counseling
domestic violence survivors, advocating against teen dating violence, working
inpatient with co-occurring (mental illness & substance use disorders) adults,
and seeing children and their families in an inpatient and outpatient setting
with a multitude of social, emotional, medical, and behavioral issues. She is
also involved with different non-profit organizations and continues to work for
the local children’s hospital. When time allows, she likes to guest lecture and
speak at different organizations with regards to treatment protocols
surrounding anxiety, trauma, and behavior management.

Reina Remigio, PhD, (she/ze) is a second-generation Filipino-American who
identifies as non-binary in gender, femme in gender expression. She is
passionate about and specializes in working with individuals whose suffering
is silent, invisible, and internalized. Reina is intensively trained in Radically
Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT), an evidence-based framework

for internalizing disorders and over controlled coping styles. She is also trained
in Focused ACT, CPT, MI, and DBT, and has additional training in
trauma-related dissociation.
Over the last seventeen years working in the mental health field, Reina has had the
honor and privilege of working together with patients struggling with diverse,
complex, and acute psychological health issues across the lifespan (i.e.,
chronic mood and anxiety disorders, suicide/nonsuicidal self-injury, substance
and process use disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, trauma,
grief, and medical conditions) in intensive outpatient (IOP), partial
hospitalization (PHP), primary care integrated behavioral health, inpatient,
forensic, residential, skilled care, and community mental health settings.
Reina held various leadership positions and provided supervision and training
to clinicians and staff in those settings. Most recently, Reina served for 3+
years as Clinical Director of a comprehensive primary mental health IOP/PHP
center in San Francisco, where she oversaw and supported clinical care, a
highly skilled and expert team of clinicians, program development and
outcome measures to help ensure gold standard whole-person care attuned
to each patients needs and goals.

Additionally, Reina provides family reunification therapy with Sage Family
Reunification, a group practice she co-founded with a couple of brilliant and
compassionate colleagues. Reina volunteers for HAND of the Bay (Helping
After Neonatal Death), a non-profit, all-volunteer led organization supporting
parents who have experienced early miscarriage, stillbirths, and early infant
loss, and providing education to the health care community. She is also a
volunteer for non-profit organization, Trans Family Support Services
Defending Equality program, that advocates for inclusive and safe school
environments for LGBTQ+ students in San Diego County. She and her dog are
on the training journey for Canine Good Citizenship to therapy dog one day,
and she enjoys a competitive game of classic and new versions of Uno with
her family.