Staff Profiles

Justin T. Gibson, PhD

Clinical Director, Mental Health Services and Psychologist
UC Berkeley, Predoctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychology
University at Albany, NY, Counseling Psychology, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Social and Behavioral Sciences, BS

Professional Experience
Dr. Gibson joined UCSF Student Health and Counseling Services in 2017 after working for more than 12 years in student counseling, community mental health, behavioral health and neuropsychological rehabilitation settings.

Dr. Gibson engages in an integrative counseling approach tailoring his style to the unique and specific needs of the individual, commonly incorporating humanistic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal neurobiology and multicultural perspectives. He is particularly interested in minority mental health emphasizing the reduction of stigma and barriers to help-seeking.

Dr. Gibson has also run a number of skills and therapy groups including Healthy Relationships, Stress Management, Health & Wellness, Life Skills, Interpersonal Process, LGBTQ support groups, Gay Men of Color Groups, and various other Men's Groups throughout his career.

Liliana Campos Ramales, PsyD

Psychologist
UC Davis, Pre-doctoral Internship in Health Psychology

University of San Francisco, Clinical Psychology, PsyD
Long Beach State University, Psychology, BA

Professional Experience
Dr. Campos’ approach to understanding mental health wellness is to strengthen the existing resilience of individuals from a social justice lens. Dr. Campos believes that individual and community wellness are deeply connected and can be available to us when we create and nurture empowering, radical, and liberating narratives. She aims to work in collaboration with people in a supportive, warm, and welcoming manner.

Dr. Campos is a generalist counseling psychologist inspired by Liberation Psychology. This means she aims to understand the impact of sociopolitical factors on health and focuses on your strengths and goals to help you cocreate healing and wellness. Dr. Campos is Latina-identified and draws from critical race theory, decolonial thought, activism, and community organizing to explore the intersection of wellness, healing for self and community transformation.

Special Area of Focus
Decolonial healing, racial trauma, first generation college students, immigrant, undocumented, and international students, activism, and community organizing. Clinical and research area of interest engaging in ancestral healing practices to address impact of racial trauma and colonial trauma with an emphasis in exploring impact of activism among immigrant, refugee, undocumented, students of color.

Aparna Atluru, MD, MBA

Psychiatrist
Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
The University of Texas Southwestern, Adult Psychiatry Residency
Harvard Business School, MBA
Texas Tech Foster School of Medicine, MD
The University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor’s degrees

Professional Experience
Dr. Atluru has trained and worked in a variety of settings, including inpatient and outpatient settings, school mental health centers, the VA, and the psychiatric ER. She approaches psychiatry from a holistic perspective and believes there are numerous elements that go into one’s wellbeing.

Special Areas of Interest
Dr. Atluru’s areas of special interest are medical education, psychodynamic and interpersonal psychotherapy, Asian American mental health, and existential depression & anxiety in high performing individuals.

Jose “Errol” Feria, MA, LMFT

Wellness and Health Promotion Director
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (California and Oregon)

California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, CA, Masters in Counseling Psychology with emphasis on Somatic Psychotherapy
University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, B.S., Engineering

Professional Experience
Errol provided mental health services in colleges and high school clinical settings, community mental health, and non-profit organizations for 8 years before he joined UCSF Student Health and Counseling Services in 2021. Prior to this, he had a private practice in massage therapy incorporating East-West traditions, meditation, yoga, and other holistic approaches. He draws his work from a social justice lens and a body-mind-spirit perspective from which he collaborates with his clients about important existential, inter-personal and environmental questions. Errol believes in the potential of all people, regardless of age, race, culture, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and abilities, and with a little guidance, one can choose a path to a successful and fulfilling life.

Special Area of Focus
Somatic Body-Based Therapy, Sensorimotor-inspired psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma-informed counseling, cultural humility informed practice, mindfulness, anxiety and stress management, PTSD recovery, attachment and developmental injuries, “parts work” model, psychoeducation, and outreach. As a bi-lingual Filipinx/a/o, LGBTQ+, First Gen, and US Navy Vet, he welcomes everyone who presents with multiple intersecting identities and needs.

Cynthia Tawasha Diwan, MA, LMFT

Clinical Coordinator
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, CA, Masters in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Expressive Arts Therapy
San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA, B.A., Urban Studies

Professional Experience
Cynthia has a background of working in community mental health and acute psychiatry. She joined UCSF Student Health in 2023 after working at Langley Porter Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs for 8 years, where she provided individual therapy, and led groups in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Cynthia takes a person-centered approach, and provides evidence-based, trauma-informed care. She enjoys helping people move in the direction of their values, make sense of ambivalence, and tolerate living in the question. Cynthia’s approach is culturally sensitive, compassionate, and at times, directive. Her goal is to help those she works with become more effective in their lives and to simply feel better.

Special Area of Focus
Include anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, mood disorders, racial identity, multicultural identity, women’s issues, grief, life transitions, parenting, coping skills, mindfulness, self-compassion, infusing DBT skills groups with expressive arts.

Winifred "Winnie" Wu, LCSW

Clinical Social Worker
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California and New York)

New York University (NYU), New York, NY, Masters in Social Work
CUNY Queens College, Queens, NY, BA Psychology

Professional Experience
Winnie joined Student Health and Counseling Services in 2023 after working with patients living with and beyond cancer at UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has extensive experience in working with clients coping with anxiety, self-esteem, relationship issues, life transitions, grief and loss, terminal illness and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). She has a certification in working with individuals and caregivers in Palliative and End-of-Life Care, and is yoga teacher certified. Winnie uses a strengths-based and client-centered approach with cultural sensitivity, often using a mind-body approach with an intention to provide the environment, guidance and support needed towards personal growth and empowerment.

Special Area of Focus
Grief and loss, terminal illness, mindfulness, anxiety, life transitions, relationship issues, coping skills, Asian American mental health, students of color.

Nicole Reinosa, PsyD

Lead Psychologist
UCSF, Predoctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology

The George Washington University, Clinical Psychology, PsyD
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Education with a focus in Human Development and Psychology, Ed.M.
San Francisco State University, Psychology, BA

Professional Experience
Dr. Reinosa has experience working in hospital, outpatient clinics, school, public health, and community-based settings. She comes with a deep commitment and knowledge of healing traumatic wounding and bolstering the sense of possibility amongst marginalized communities of color at the intersection of mental health and education. Her work is rooted in social justice and strengths-based frameworks, and she draws from trauma-informed, multicultural, psychodynamic, and person-centered approaches to provide a safe, non-judgmental environment, where one can be seen, heard, and grow. With sensitivity and compassion, Dr. Reinosa, works collaboratively with students to address their individual needs, cultivate self-awareness, balance, and confidence. She believes that everyone can develop insight and change emotional, behavioral, and relational patterns that get in the way of our happiness, healing, and living our best lives.

Special Area of Focus
Dr. Reinosa’s areas of special interest include trauma, life transitions, depression, anxiety, stress management (work, life, school, racial), first generation college students, parenting, women’s issues, racial/multicultural/intersectional identities, and African American mental health.

Rodelyn Montemayor

Practice Manager
City College of San Francisco, Certified Medical Assistant

Professional Experience
Before coming to Student Health & Counseling, Rodelyn worked as both a manager and medical assistant in Internal Medicine for 14 years. Prior to that, she worked in a Periodontic clinic for four years. Rodelyn has been with Student Health since 2004.