Dr. Serseción is the owner and founder of Level Up Psychotherapy.
They are a genderqueer (they/them/ellos pronouns), bilingual, Puerto Rican, licensed clinical psychologist. They specialize in individual therapy, and maintain a private practice in San Jose, CA.
Dr. Serseción has a private practice focusing on BIPOC, sexual and gender minorities, plural populations, and other marginalized groups, and people in various subcultures. Clinical focuses are depression, anxiety, life transitions, gender questioning, stress related to sexual and gender minority stress, trauma, and dissociation (from a plural positive perspective).
Dr. Serseción has 15+ years of experience in providing therapy. They have an MS in Marriage and Family Therapy MS program. In addition to having an MS and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Palo Alto University, an APA accredited program. They also completed an APA accredited internship at Pacific University in Oregon.
Dr. Serseción uses cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic theory with transpersonal psychology techniques. These are all informed by a multicultural, feminist, and advocacy perspective. Dr. Serseción focuses on providing a safe space in therapy for people from various cultures and communities.
In addition to being a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Serseción presents at various agencies, conventions, conferences, and to general audiences. Topics include clinical interventions and needs of plural populations, needs of the LGBTQ+ population, Latinx needs in therapy, various fandoms, and mental health, video game culture, online cultures, art therapy, multicultural therapy (power, privilege, and oppression), dissociative disorders, CBT skills, and various topics related to students and early career therapists.
Furthermore, they have also been a visiting professor and workshop provider at various universities, tech companies and community mental health sites. The topics addressed include multicultural psychology, the psychology of gender, working as a plural positive clinician, supervision, and more. They have also been a clinical supervisor for 10+ years. As a clinical supervisor, they have an evidence-based and multicultural framework with their student therapist supervisees. They were also an interim director for a local specialized LGBTQ+ clinic.
They also provide CE on demand courses for doctoral level and master's level clinicians ON DEMAND CES [email protected]