Xiomara Sanchez, LCSW

Clinical Director

Xiomara is a bilingual (Spanish/English) licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Tigard, Oregon. She was born in Managua, Nicaragua and grew up in Miami, FL.

She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Florida International University (FIU) and went on to pursue her Master's degree in Clinical Social Work from New York University (NYU).

She is licensed to practice by the Oregon Board of Clinical Social Workers and has been practicing for over 20 years.
She has specialized in the area of childhood trauma. In 2006, after several years as a clinician, she became the Clinical Supervisor at the Orlowitz-Lee Children's Advocacy Center-Kristi House in Miami, FL, a nonprofit agency that provides advocacy, case management and therapy services to child victims of sexual abuse. Xiomara supervised 13 clinicians and masters level social work students. She also assisted families through various court proceedings such as family, dependency, and criminal court.

Xiomara moved to Portland, Oregon in 2011 and was the clinical manager for the intensive community-based treatment services (ICTS) program at Trillium Family Services. She provided supervision to therapists and skills trainers as well treatment to children and adolescents stepping down from residential treatment and integrating back into the community.

Xiomara has many years of experience working with children, individuals and families affected by sexual abuse. She has received extensive training in early childhood mental health and family therapy and likes to work with adult survivors of sexual abuse. Xiomara is interested in reunification cases particularly working with children and families involved in the child welfare system. She also likes to provide clinical supervision to masters level students as well as clinicians working towards their license.

Xiomara has received training in evidenced-based practices such as culturally-modified trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (CM-TF-CBT), Collaborative problem solving (CPS), Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and Applied suicide intervention skills training (ASIST).

She completed the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Certificate Program through Portland State University's Child Welfare Partnership.