Renee Gama, LMFT valued the time she spent learning and training with Hearts & Hands from June of 2018 to December of 2020. She was licensed in May 2021 and has been working with Lyra Clinical Associates since August 2021 providing telehealth services for Lyra Health, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that serves companies inside and outside the United States. Renee provides Blended Care Therapy (rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT) for clients in CA by incorporating Lyra's technological platform of digital lessons and practices to help clients achieve treatment goals. Clients have a safe space to process thoughts and feelings in addition to learning skills and tools that help them navigate and address clinical issues and needs. Renee primarily treats clients seeking to increase anxiety and depression coping, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, stress management, assertive communication, and strengthening of relationships.

Christina Villanueva, LMFT​​ is currently working in private practice in the Sacramento area, where she has been offering telehealth since the start of the pandemic. She has been licensed for five years and was at Hearts and Hands TEN years ago! She says, "Hearts and Hands provided me with a great safe environment to not only practice as an intern, but to learn from great mentors. I couldn't have asked for a better place to work. I'm thankful to be a part of the Hearts and Hands family." Her website can be found here: www.ChristinaVillanueva.net