Staff Profiles

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.

Alexia Capsuto, MD

Psychiatrist
Northwell Zucker Hillside Hospital, Adult Psychiatry Residency
New York Medical College, MD
UC Berkeley, BA Public Health, CalTeach Science and Math Education

Professional Experience
Dr. Capsuto trained in New York, where she gained experience in inpatient and outpatient settings, resident supervision, as well as telepsychiatry, emergency psychiatry, and consult-liaison psychiatry. She has focused on outpatient mental health care in her work, primarily treating college students, medical students, and resident and fellow physicians.

Special Areas of Interest
Dr. Capsuto’s areas of special interest are medical education, stress management and mindfulness, cultural humility and antiracism informed practice, LGBTQIA+ identities, and women’s health. Her clinical focus is on management of ADHD, personality disorders, anxiety, panic disorders, burnout, and depression.

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.

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 Student Health and Counseling (now Student Mental Health and Wellbeing) in 2023 after working at Langley Porter Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs for eight 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 (now Student Mental Health and Wellbeing) 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, EdM
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.

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 eight years before he joined UCSF Student Health and Counseling Services (now Student Mental Health and Wellbeing) 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.

Michelle Zhao, MPH, CHES

Health Promotion Specialist
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, MPH
University of Toronto, HBSc

Michelle is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is interested in understanding the intersecting factors that shape students’ health and wellbeing through a public health and health promotion lens. 

Her master’s thesis on imposter phenomenon among graduate students demonstrates strong research skills and desire to understand nuances in the student experience. In addition to research, Michelle has experience in health communication, program planning, and key partner engagement. Her background in student government and community engagement highlights her ability to build partnerships and foster a well-being-centered campus culture. 

Michelle believes that university campuses can be hubs to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to flourish in college and beyond. With her background in health promotion, student wellbeing, and program development, she seeks to achieve this goal through an evidence-based approach and by working with the campus community to build a culture of wellbeing on campus and support student health and wellness. 
 

Rodelyn Montemayor

Practice Manager
City College of San Francisco, Certified Medical Assistant

Professional Experience
Before coming to Student Health & Counseling (now Student Mental Health and Wellbeing), 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 Mental Health since 2004.