PAST SPOTLIGHTS
March Spotlight
NaTasha Bailey
NaTasha A. Bailey is from Southeast San Diego, California. She earned her B.S. in Human Services in 2004 and a M.S. in Marriage Family and Child Therapy from the University of Phoenix in 2009. She was also the recipient of the 2010 California Department of Mental Health MFT Stipend Program Educational Award.NaTasha is licensed by the State of California Board of Behavioral Sciences as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#86354). She is also a member of California Association for Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) and San Diego Community Connections for Black Wellness. NaTasha has presented and trained for CAMFT San Diego, various school districts, and faith-based communities.
NaTasha is a certified trauma therapist and has extensive experience treating adolescents and women with childhood trauma, racial trauma, stress and attachment issues. In addition, she specializes in relationship counseling, treatment of anxiety, depression, and other emotional difficulties.
In her early career, Natasha worked as an aging program specialist regional coordinator for the County of San Diego Long-Term Care Ombudsman Office, providing advocacy for seniors. She also worked as a protective services worker for the County of San Diego Child Welfare Services, helping families with reunification.
She has dedicated the last six years to working as an educationally related mental health therapist to students receiving special education services in the Sweetwater Union High School district. She now works in private practice (Mind2Mind Therapy Center) full-time with individuals, couples, families, and the elderly community.
When NaTasha is not working, she enjoys running, roller skating, weight training, fiction writing, and most importantly, spending quality time with her husband and three daughters ages 23, 20 and 17.
February Spotlight
Ojore Bushfan
Ojore Lateef Bushfan received a MS in Counseling with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, a MA in Multicultural Counseling from the Community-Based Block Program, and a BA in Africana Studies with a concentration in Psychology, from San Diego State University. Ojore is currently a licensed marriage and family therapist in California. He has a background providing clinical services within educational settings. He was a research assistant and facilitator for the San Diego Caregiver-Child Connection Project Hair Combing Interactions Study.
Ojore is passionate about working within school systems, providing mental health services to college students with behavioral and social-emotional challenges, and developing creative and culturally responsive ways of working with this population. His interests include attachment theory, adolescents, African-American males, body-centered/somatic work, sand play therapy, play therapy, challenging dominant male discourses/male socialization, grief and loss, and sound healing.