Meet Our Team

Katharina Sandizell

Founder, Clinical Director, Clinical Supervisor, MA, LMFT

Katharina is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFCT / EFIT / EFFT) and Supervisor, a Certified AEDP Therapist, and a Certified Deliberate Practice Supervisor, specializing in Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), AEDP, IFS parts work, trauma, and Clinical Supervision. She graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and has been a therapist for over 25 years...
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Paul Taruskin

Senior Therapist, MA, LMFT

Paul is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, specializing in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy as an advanced Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist (EFCT). He specializes in relationships, attachment, addiction recovery, neurodivergence, and trauma. Paul graduated from UC Davis and John F. Kennedy University and is an active member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (ICEEFT)....
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Einat Cohen

Senior Therapist, MA, LMFT

Einat Cohen

Senior Therapist, MA, LMFT

Einat is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, specializing in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy as an advanced Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist (EFCT) and a Level 1 IFS (Internal Family Systems) Therapist. She holds degrees from Tel-Aviv University and Palo Alto University. Her areas of expertise are in relationships, attachment, trauma, and neurodivergence (ADHD). Einat is also an ADHD coach, working with ADHD and neurodiversity to help build structures that can help keep life more smooth, regulated, and organized.

Einat is an advanced EMDR therapist with The EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), and advanced family systems therapist the The Ackerman Institution for Family Therapy. She is a member of The International Center for Excellence in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), The EFT Center of Los Angeles (EFTCLA), and The Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Einat is passionate about working collaboratively with her clients and creating a therapeutic experience that is meaningful, empowering and transformative. Working from an attachment lens, Einat uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFCT and EFIT), EMDR, AEDP, IFS, and Family Systems.

Her approach helps people to address how they relate to themselves and others while making concrete changes towards connecting and communicating in more positive and healthy ways. By creating deep shifts in relationship dynamics, couples and families can create more resilient, connected, and supportive ways of relating.

Phone:415-340-0337
Email:info@lovefrontiertherapy.com

Abigail Torcedo

Assistant Clinical Director, Clinical Supervisor, MA, LMFT

Abigail Torcedo

Assistant Clinical Director, Clinical Supervisor, MA, LMFT

Abigail Torcedo, MA, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and seasoned clinician. She is the Assistant Clinical Director and Clinical Supervisor at Love Frontier Therapy Group and specializes in Deliberate Practice supervision, working with trauma using CBT, DBT, and Psychodynamic approaches. Abigail is a certified Deliberate Practice Supervisor, with years of experience training and supervising AMFT's, APCC's, and ACSW's

Her passion lies in serving the community and working with adults with severe mental illness and their families. She also works as a Clinical Supervisor for the Adult Outpatient Program with Tri City Mental Health. She loves drawing from trauma-informed, DBT, and psychodynamic approaches to help her clients.

As a supervisor, Abigail utilizes Deliberate Practice and the Sentio Supervision Model to assist trainees and associates in developing their skills and achieving growth. She is passionate about contributing to future generations of mental health professionals and their training.

Phone:415-340-0337
Email:info@lovefrontiertherapy.com

Saleena Nickolan

Administrative Coordinator

Saleena Saleena is a 35 year old professional living in Southern California and is the Administrative Coordinator for Love Frontier Therapy Group.
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Saleena Nickolan

Administrative Coordinator

Saleena is a 35 year old professional living in Southern California and is the Administrative Coordinator for Love Frontier Therapy Group. She has been in client relations for over 10 years and currently holds an Associates in Arts and Humanties. She knows how to be both professional and down to earth with both clients and staff. Saleena thinks mental health is incredibly important and is glad to be working in a field she’s passionate about.

Phone:415-340-0337
Email:info@lovefrontiertherapy.com

Charisse Nash

Senior Associate Therapist, MA, AMFT

Charisse Nash

Senior Associate Therapist, MA, AMFT

Charisse Nash, AMFT, MA, BS, is a Senior Licensed Associate Marriage-Family Therapist, with a Masters in Integral Counseling Psychology at The California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Charisse is an advanced Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFCT), and offers a variety of modalities and frameworks like EMDR, EFT, IFS, CBT, ACT, Somatic, and Attachment-Focused therapies, based upon the client's goals and needs for therapy. She is supervised by Abigail Torcedo, LMFT (lic.# 121312).

Charisse's style is warm and empathetic but also practical. She specializes in attachment, couples, co-parenting, grief, and deep somatic work. She completed her practicum hours at a hospice and palliative care clinic in the Bay Area, concentrating on loss, bereavement, grief and compounded grief.

Charisse worked and trained with Masters level clinicians in becoming specialized in Couples Counseling and Transpersonal Psychotherapy. To learn more about Charisee, please reach to schedule an initial consultation.

Phone:415-340-0337
Email:info@lovefrontiertherapy.com

Julia Wadsworth, AMFT

Associate Therapist, MA, AMFT, APPC

Julia Wadsworth, AMFT

Associate Therapist, MA, AMFT, APPC

Julia Wadsworth, is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT 160743) and Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (APPC 21241). She has a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, and completed her practicum at Eldership Academy in Oakland, CA. Julia is an advanced Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFT), and is also well versed in CBT, IFS, Attachment focused therapies, and Existential-Humanistic counseling.

Julia specializes in relationships, attachment, grief, death and dying, life transitions, anxiety, trauma, depression, overwhelm, ADHD, neurodivergence, as well as existential questions, with a focus on relational warmth and empathy.

Julia's works with couples and individuals on clearing blocks so that her clients can feel freer by getting clear on what slows them down, while processing what needs to be let go of, so that they can follow their dreams and goals. She works relationally and uses her own natural warmth to help clients feel emotionally safe and supported in their work with her.

Phone:415-340-0337
Email:info@lovefrontiertherapy.com

Niki Kimscasas

Practice Manager

Niki Kimscasas is the Practice Manager at Love Frontier Therapy Group. Her clinical and administrative healthcare work experience spans over 30 years...
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Niki Kimscasas

Practice Manager

Niki Kimscasas is the Practice Manager at Love Frontier Therapy Group. Her clinical and administrative healthcare work experience spans over 30 years and includes Inpatient, Outpatient, RTC, IOPs, and Mobile healthcare. Mobile facilities/providers are those such as Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H) & Unsheltered outreach on foot or Clinics on wheels.

The industry & rules are constantly changing. Niki keeps up to date with monthly trainings and she is a member of PAHCOM - The Professional Association of Health Care Office Management.

Phone:415-340-0337
Email:info@lovefrontiertherapy.com

Sheena Tumulak

Practice Manager

Sheena has been working in the Medical and Mental Health Billing industry for many years. She is responsible for creating and entering claims and submitting them via EHR.
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Sheena Tumulak

Practice Manager

Sheena has been working in the Medical and Mental Health Billing industry for many years. She is responsible for creating and entering claims and submitting them via EHR. She is trained in Medical records software: Advanced MD, Office Ally, Web PT, Collab MD, Therapy Notes, and Simple Practice. Languages: English, Tagalog.

Phone:415-340-0337
Email:info@lovefrontiertherapy.com

Meet Our Team

Katharina Sandizell

Paul Taruskin

Einat Cohen

Abigail Torcedo

Saleena Nickolan

Charisse Nash

Julia Wadsworth, AMFT

Niki Kimscasas

Sheena Tumulak

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