Emily O-Rourke-Mills, LMFT
Assistant Clinical Director - Canyonside
Emily Mills is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in
treating mental health conditions occurring concurrently with substance use
disorders. She also specializes in working with the LGBT community. Emily
graduated cum laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a
bachelor’s degree in Humanities, and from the California Institute of
Integral Studies with a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology, with an
emphasis on Integral Psychology. Emily brings over a decade of diverse
clinical experience to her work at Bayside Marin.
Emily’s work with clients focuses on recognizing the underlying causes and
conditions for substance use, viewing their use as a symptom, rather than
the sole cause of their suffering. She was trained psychodynamically and
brings a relational psychodynamic lens to her work. Emily also employs tools
from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and
Mindfulness to support clients in developing tools to support their
wellness. Emily believes that the core of recovery is in creating a life
that you want to live, and works with clients to help them identify what
brings them great joy, and how to eliminate the barriers to those
experiences of joy and fulfillment. Her work is collaborative, meeting
individual clients where they are, and allowing both for sadness and
laughter. She places deep value in fully experiencing emotions as they
arise.
Dr. Audriannah Levine-Ward, PsyD
Dr. Levine received her MA and Doctorate in clinical psychology from Wright
Institute in Berkeley, CA. Currently, she approaches her work with a
Narrative theory lens while also integrating empirically validated
treatments including; CBT, DBT and Mindfulness. Dr. Levine utilizes
Feminist, Social- Justice and Trauma- Informed theories in order to allow
the individual to access and express their most authentic self while in
treatment.
Prior to working at Bayside Marin, Dr. Levine completed her pre-doctoral
hours working for UCSF/ ZSFG Trauma Recovery Center in the psychosocial
medicine training program. There she worked with survivors of religion and
gender- based persecution, refugees and trauma survivors living in San
Francisco.
Dr. Levine has 5 years of experience in the mental health field working
predominantly with women, the LGBT community, people of color, and those in
pursuit of sobriety.
In addition to working in the addiction and recovery field, Dr. Levine
specializes in working in the areas of sexual orientation, gender
transition, alternative sexuality, sex work, trauma and sexuality, trauma,
culture, race, social class, homelessness, body positivity and personal
empowerment.
Dr. Levine believes that therapy begins with human to human connection and
can be used as a safe space to empower the individual to make change.