Leslie Rebecca Connell, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LCS 19814

Reba Connell, LCSW, is a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist, a distinction earned by select therapists engaged in intensive study of couples research and practice. She has completed a practicum in teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and has studied with Jon Kabat-Zinn. She is an Honors graduate of Brown University, where she focused on multicultural women's issues, and UC Berkeley, where she researched the connection between depression and pain in women. She speaks English, Spanish, and Hebrew. She has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1999. She also writes midrashic poetry, feminist and queer retellings of Torah stories. She brings ancient wisdom from Judaism, Buddism, and other sources into her clinical work.

(Therapist Photo: Joan Bobkoff Photography, Berkeley)