Tiombe Wallace (she/her)
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
(Not currently accepting new clients)
Tiombe Wallace is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 23 years of experience as a feminist therapist, educator, and activist working to empower survivors and communities. She is the owner of a private psychotherapy practice and consulting business named Tiombe, MFT, Inc. She provides individual and group psychotherapy for teens and adults, consultation on curriculum and program development, clinical supervision and continuing education, anti-oppression training, and speaking engagements for mental health professionals, social services, universities, youth programs, crisis services, and counselor/mentor/advocate certification courses.
She received dual Bachelor’s degrees from Scripps College in Claremont in Psychology and Women’s Studies (Gender, Feminist and Sexuality Studies) and her Master’s in Counseling: Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Long Beach. Starting during her undergraduate studies internship, Tiombe dedicated herself to working with consumers of mental health services with multiple marginalized identities that had limited access to resources and support. She ran her first group for survivors of sexual violence in a long-term, locked psychiatric facility where she coordinated and advocated for patient centered practices within a multi-disciplinary team with social workers, nursing staff, and psychiatrists. She developed groups and provided specialized individualized therapy for parents and caregivers with their own trauma histories caring for children and teens involved with child protective services. Her expertise in sharing culturally relevant, LGBTIQ affirming, trauma-survivor centered counseling with practitioners, programs and educational institutions has been influential in her work in shelters, community based counseling centers, eating disorder programs, day treatment for individuals with both mental illness and developmental disabilities, mental health advocacy with the California Black Women’s Health Project and with peer support organizations. She was an instructor for the Masters in Counseling program at California State University, Long Beach, teaching a course she created for the program in Feminist Therapy, as well as core courses in Domestic Violence/Child Abuse, Trauma and Grief, and Treatment Planning, for over 8 years. She continues to teach in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at CSULB, as well as multiple social work graduate programs as a guest instructor. She taught in the Long Beach City College, Human Services program for their Victimology and Domestic Violence Interventions courses, as well as at El Camino Compton Center in Women’s Studies. She was the Director of Counseling Services for the Sexual Assault Crisis Agency (SACA) a state certified rape crisis center serving 24 cities in the greater Long Beach and South Bay areas of Los Angeles County, working in all facets of the rape crisis center for over 12 years, until its closure in 2009.
Her specializations include intersectional feminist therapy, best practices in responding to complex interpersonal violence and trauma and collaborative healing modalities in the context of clients’ identities and experiences. Her work has focused on working in communities of color, trauma-informed care, sexual and domestic/intimate partner violence, child abuse, as well as advocacy for survivors with disabilities and those living with mental illness. Through her work in health advocacy she brings an anti-oppression lens to mental health disparities, reproductive justice and anti-violence policies. Her work focuses on empowerment for all consumers of services and healing from marginalization, trauma and intersecting forms of oppression.
In addition to her own private practice, Tiombe is an ongoing consultant and trainer for multiple colleges and universities on improving responses to survivors of interpersonal violence and oppression. She is a regular consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women Campus Program Training and Technical Assistance Institutes (TTI) and SA/IPV Coalitions across the nation. She served as a commissioner for the Los Angeles County Commission on Mental Health and teaches at the community colleges and state universities around her home town of Long Beach, California.