Amanda Piasecki Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, United States

I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working in private practice in Oakland. I provide respectful, collaborative, strengths-based, integrative psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families, and groups of any configuration.https://www.therapyden.com/therapist/amanda-piasecki-oakland-ca

Oakland, Ca

Marriage and Family Therapist in a group practice.

Berkeley, Ca

Group therapist for LBTQIA-identified people and young women with cancer.

Richmond, Ca

I was a mental health clinician for Rubicon's Calworks program, and provided psychotherapy to multi-stressed adults.

San Francisco, Ca

I completed a year-long private practice internship under the supervision of David Brown, in which I provided individual therapy within a depth psychology framework.Services Provided: Individual therapy.Population: Women and transfolks, mixed SES, 50% people of color, 50% white, 90% LGBTQIA.Orientation: Depth psychology, psychodynamic therapy, Jungian therapy.

Pleasant Hill, Ca

I completed my child and family hours for licensure as a therapeutic behavioral services (TBS) and educational mental health management (EMHM) clinician at COFY. The program serves diverse children and families in Contra Costa County. I provided family therapy, child and teen therapy, behavioral support, and group therapy under supervision in home, school, and community settings. I also gave an organization-wide training on working with LGBTQIA families.Services Provided: Child and teen therapy, behavioral support, family therapy, group therapy, CBT/DBT, narrative therapy, expressive arts therapy, extensive Medi-Cal documentation.Population: Children, teens and families, mixed SES, 60% people of color, 40% white, 25% LGBTQIA.Orientation: Strengths-based, narrative therapy, psychodynamic therapy, attachment-focused, DBT, CBT.

Oakland, Ca

I completed my practicum at a day treatment program for clients with co-occurring severe mental illnesses and substance abuse issues. The program has a harm-reduction orientation and serves homeless and precariously-housed people with extremely limited financial resources in West Oakland. I provided individual therapy, group therapy, and psychoeducation classes, under supervision.Services Provided: Individual therapy, DBT skills, expressive arts therapy, narrative therapy, self-advocacy therapy groups, milieu work, extensive Medi-Cal documentation.Population: Co-occurring severe mental illness and substance abuse, low SES, 95% people of color, 5% white.Orientation: Harm reduction, strengths-based, narrative therapy, psychodynamic therapy, motivational interviewing, DBT, CBT.

Palo Alto, Ca

• UX research and governance generalist and lead project manager for VMware.com UX initiatives.• Drove qualitative and quantitative research projects, managed five vendors, and executed a high volume of Photoshop prototyping for a fast-paced web team.• Participated in heuristic evaluation, survey creation, A/B testing, and remote research related to VMware.com and associated VMware web properties.• Created and documented UI patterns and standards with a cross-functional UX and design team, and worked with web marketing managers and content team to support and govern business units’ web needs.• Supported UX Director on UX visioning and synthesis related to VMware.com projects, including creating user flows, IA and navigational schema, wireframes, and static and interactive prototypes.

San Jose, Ca

• Led user experience strategy as Creative Services Director serving Corporate Affairs (CSR) at Cisco Systems.• As product lead for csr.cisco.com, spearheaded usability analysis and major site redevelopment initiatives. • Owned and managed CSR brand at Cisco, including acting as a liaison to corporate brand owners.• Conceived and led execution for CSR marketing, communications, social media, and user experience improvement efforts, including website strategy, strategic content deployment, and analytics benchmarking.• Agile project management lead for csr.cisco.com and for internal and external marketing initiatives. Team received regular accolades from senior management at quarterly operations reviews for its work capacity, efficiency, and professionalism.• Managed a team of consultants, vendors, and external strategists.

• Lead product development of an online community for education system leaders as part of a corporate social responsibility effort at Cisco Systems.• Planned and executed a large-scale site redesign that increased unique visits by 76% in one year.• Led internal and external teams to develop a new brand sensibility.• Conceived and executed user experience strategies, including developing product plans, product requirements documents, and information architecture documentation.• Conceived and executed web analytics strategies, including developing key metrics for analysis of website and social media performance.• Served as primary liaison between Cisco and design & development vendors, including daily technical project management, managing business relationships and development teams, and executing two large-scale vendor transitions for site redevelopment.

Ma, Counseling Psychology

Mfa, Electronic Music & Intermedia

Bm, Music Performance