Sil Machado, Ph.D. 

About Dr. Machado

I am a professor in the Department of Counseling at Sonoma State University, where I teach in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program. 

I hold a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saybrook University, and three separate master's degrees in counseling, clinical psychology, and Jungian Archetypal psychology.

I am a licensed psychologist with experience in non-profit, juvenile detention, public health, medical, and private practice settings, where I have provided a range of services including individual, couples, and group therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and elders. I currently maintain a private practice specializing in neurofeedback, biofeedback, long-term depth psychotherapy, and somatic therapies.

My teaching interests include psychotherapy theory, critical perspectives on psychopathology, clinical skill development, the theory and practice of depth psychotherapies, and trauma therapy. 

My research focuses on LGBTQ+ issues, depth psychology/ psychotherapy, shame, and trauma. I am interested in  deeply qualitative, emancipatory methods that convey lived experience in both interesting and emotionally evocative ways, such as poetic inquiry, photo-elicitation, narrative, autoethnography, and autobiography.