MacKenzie Stuart, LMFT, is a Senior Deliberate Practice Trainer and Faculty at Sentio. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with adults, couples, partners, and families. She specializes in nontraditional relationship structures, including polyamory and other forms of consensual nonmonogamy, as well as chronic depression and suicidality. Her other clinical interests include psychosis, psychopharmacology and drugs, LGBTQIA2-S and GNC/non-binary communities, kink and BDSM practices, and sex work. MacKenzie enjoys psychodynamic case conceptualization, the enneagram, biofeedback, narrative and solution-focused interventions, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. She is a member of core faculty at The Wright Institute in Berkeley and leads a private practice in Alameda.

Joel Jin, Ph.D. received his Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology from Fuller’s Graduate School of Psychology. He is as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Seattle Pacific University with over three years of experience in educational delivery and course development. His subject expertise includes psychology of Asian American populations, perfectionism, and mindfulness-based interventions. Dr. Jin is a co-author of the book Deliberate Practice in Multicultural Therapy.