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Availability last updated 12/23/2024
Marcene Marcus, LCSW, is our passionate Clinical Director of Outpatient Services, with over 3 decades of mental health fieldwork serving populations from early childhood to older adulthood. Her academic journey began at UC Santa Barbara, where she obtained her BA & headed a stress peer counselor team. She then studied Gerontology at USC & served as a teaching assistant. Her Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work was earned at Columbia University, where she also had a rare opportunity to complete a law minor.
She is grateful to play a pivotal role in shaping Ocean Psychiatry’s strategic vision & operational excellence. She oversees clinical training, ensures adherence to best practices (encouraging evidenced based techniques), & drives initiatives that enhance the quality of care for both clients & associate clinicians under her supervision. Her leadership style maintains integrity through creative innovations & compassionate care, while prioritizing cutting-edge education for staff.
This Clinical Director’s experience spans a diverse spectrum of settings including: pre-schools, non-profits, residential treatment, medical offices, insurance companies, and college counseling centers. Her unifying approach combines a psychodynamic framework with an emphasis on developing powerful therapeutic alliances. Marcene's main areas of clinical specialty are: resistance & blocks in therapy, reparenting the self, positive parenting & co-parenting, infertility, adoption, divorce, relationship repair, trauma recovery, grief & loss healing, narrative therapy, art therapy, career & wellness optimization.
Marcene contributes to advancing the field through innovations such as: Conceiving Victory Inc., a private practice she founded assisting individuals, couples, & families in overcoming life's challenges; co-creating a Network of Psychotherapy Professionals for regular clinical consultation to promote ethics & best practices; & most recently launching Ocean Psychiatry’s own Associate Training Program to nurture the growth of master-level clinicians as they pursue licensure. In her downtime, she loves music, painting, writing, reading, swimming, playing fetch with her dogs and old-fashioned card or board games.
Marcene Marcus, LCSW
Social Worker
39180 Liberty Street
Suite 205
Fremont, CA 94538
Erika Klara is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with over 8 years of experience in family therapy. She received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Educational Services from the University of Babes- Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and a Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling Psychology from Palo Alto University. She has 4 years of experience in documentation standards and evidence-based treatment planning and implementation for MediCal and private medical insurance.
Erika has a proven ability to provide clinical assessment, diagnosis, and evaluation. She is skilled at providing strength-based mental health services, crisis evaluation, and intervention services. She is also a strong believer of providing culturally sensitive and appropriate services to individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds. She is fluent in English and Hungarian and conversational in Romanian and Spanish. She also has an exceptional ability to coordinate services and referrals, linking patients to appropriate resources and services to support their recovery. She also has experience in providing individual and family therapy to youth on probation. She has expertise in play therapy and expressive art therapy techniques, and emphasizes the use of these techniques to improve the well-being of her patients.
Erika is open to working with all patients who are ages 6 to 64 years old, and is currently accepting new patients.
Accepted Health Plans: UMR/United Healthcare/Optum, Cigna/Evernorth, and Aetna.
Erika Klara
Social Worker
39180 Liberty Street
Suite 205
Fremont, CA 94538
Lindsey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has worked with youth and families for over 10 years. Lindsey has worked in many different capacities, including school based services, intensive outpatient clinics/partial hospitalization programs, residential facilities, and community agencies. Lindsey works from a collaborative, relational and client-centered approach. Lindsey uses an attachment-based approach for her sessions and draws upon the body/mind connection to understand and explore the unique complexities that lead to anxiety, depression, and relational difficulties. Lindsey has experience working with a wide variety of issues including depression, anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, self-injurious and other high-risk behaviors.
Accepted Health Plans: Blue Shield of CA – Magellan, Kaiser, United Healthcare, Cigna, and MHN
Lindsey Sauter, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist
39180 Liberty Street
Suite 205
Fremont, CA 94538
Allison Gentz, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist who holds a Master’s degree in Psychology. She was the first licensed psychotherapist to work at Ocean Psychiatry and brings over 10 years of experience in the field of Mental Health. Allison has expertise in working with people who have adult ADHD, autism, traumatic brain injury, phobias, hospice and end of life grief, first responder challenges, and adoption and foster care issues, to name a few. She uses evidenced based techniques (For example: CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, solution-focused and trauma focused therapy) to successfully facilitate individual and family therapy.
Allison is a boat enthusiast who currently resides in Arizona and is always up for lending a hand to her colleagues who adore her quick-witted humor and open readiness to share her knowledge.
She is currently in network with the following health insurance plans: Tricare West, Imperial Health. Alignment. Kaiser, Anthem Blue Cross, UMR/United Healthcare/Optum Behavioral Health/AARP, Cigna/Evernorth, Magellan, Aetna, Medicare, and Blue Shield of Ca. Please inquire about your plan if it is not on this ever-evolving list.
Allison Gentz, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist
39180 Liberty Street
Suite 205
Fremont, CA 94538
