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Area of Expertise in Systemic Family Therapy: Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity (GSRD), and LGTBQ+ families, Polyamorous families, Gender diverse families, and other gender/sexuality/and relationship minority clients and families.
Sabrina Valente, MA, is a therapist and program director who has worked in the mental health system for over 14 yrs. She has spent the last 5 of those years working in Family-Based Mental Health Services (FBMHS) in Pennsylvania as a Program Director. Sabrina completed her training as a Family-Based Mental Health Professional through the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center and is certified through the Pennsylvania Certification Board. She also earned her certification as a Family-Based Mental Health Supervisor through the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center. Sabrina began working with the Training Center in June 2019 when she was asked to provide training on ESFT and LGBTQ+ Youth at the annual Program Directors meeting. She is now working with the Center as an ESFT Clinical Trainer.
Sabrina is currently the FBMHS Program Director at Laurel Life. In this role, she provides clinical supervision to all the FBMHS therapists, manages and oversees all referrals, and provides training. She is particularly passionate about orienting new therapists and clinicians to ESFT and helping them grow and develop their skills.
Sabrina earned a Master’s in Forensic Psychology from Argosy University. She has considerable training in trauma and is a Certified Family Trauma Professional through the International Association of Trauma Professionals. Additionally, she is extremely skilled at providing trainings and is a certified ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) Trainer through Living Works, as well as a SCM (Safe Crisis Managment) Trainer through JKM Traininng. She has also been trained as a Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) trainer through the GEMS program. Sabrina has extensive clinical knowledge in working with the LGBTQ+ community. She has actively developed safe space programs in her community for LGBTQ+ youth and has presented on working with LGBTQ+ youth, as well as a variety of other topics, at various conferences.
Before joining and finding a home in Family-Based Mental Health, Sabrina worked in crisis intervention for 6 years, providing in-person and phone community and hospital-based, mobile crisis intervention and suicide intervention services. It was here that she rose through the ranks, moving from Crisis Worker, to Shift Supervisor, to Clinical Supervisor before transitioning to FBMHS. Additionally, she has worked in a community jail teaching stress and anger management skills and started her career in mental health as a TSS. Outside of work, she enjoys snuggling with her cat Mouse, being Aunt Mimi to her best friend’s children, hanging out with family and friends, listening to true-crime podcasts, watching The West Wing for the 5th time, and eating good sushi.