Our Team
The team at Alt Mental Health is composed of proud members of the LGBTQIA+ community & allies and are well versed in open relationships or alternative sexual preferences. Our skills in addressing the adverse experiences these communities face come from a combination of lived/ professional experience and education. We have a passion for and specialize in developmental/ancestral trauma that has affected historically marginalized people including BIPOC populations and the LGBTQIA+ communities. Our advisors identify with the neurodivergent spectrum, as well as the recovery community, and can work with people who are facing any type of attention deficit or identify as on the spectrum of neurodivergency. Our advisors have extensive experience working with clients along the entire socioeconomic spectrum, from correctional facilities, mental health hospitals, upscale rehab center, to corporate leadership. Our lived/professional experience and education have taught our advisors to be versatile and effective in optimizing the well-being of all populations.
“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”
― Jacques Lacan
ALT MENTAL HEALTH STAFF
KARA JEAN BREI, LAC, NCC, CPSS
(THEY/THEM)
Founding Therapist and Prevention & Treatment Program Coordinator | ALT Mental Health and the Desert Spectrum Coalition | Licensed Associate Counselor | Nationally Certified Counselor | Certified Peer Support Specialist | Certified Youth Mental Health First Aid
CHRISTINA MARCENKUS, CPRSS
(SHE/HER/THEY/THEM)
Executive Director of ALT Mental Health | Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist | Certified Youth Mental Health First Aid
DARRYL BRANDT, CPSS
(HE/HIM)
Founder of the Check Your Head Mobile Barber Outreach Program | Unsheltered Outreach Project Director | Certified Peer Support Specialist | Certified Adverse Childhood Experiences Trainer | Certified Youth Mental Health First Aid
ANGELA WILSON, LCSW
(SHE/HER)
Clinical Director | Therapist, Sex Addiction Specialist | Mental Health Advisor, Mood Connect
ROBERT PRUETT, CPSS
(HE/HIM)
Certified Peer Support Specialist | Strategic Energy Trainer
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(YOU)
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Board of Directors
Teke Griffin, President
Phil Sirois, Treasurer
Brandon Montero
Ray Villa
Elizabeth Santa Cruz
Bishop Anthony Holt
A’kami Moody
Angela Guerrero
Jara Bender
Neil Berger
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"In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."
Albert Camus