Saturday
May052012
SOJOURNER HOUSE RESIDENTIAL TEAM WELCOMES LICENSED CLINICIAN!
Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 03:15PM 
All of us at Sojourner House enthusiastically welcome Eva Malia as our new Director of Clinical Services. As a native of Spain, Eva increases our ability to extend our outreach to both Spanish and English speaking clients. Previously, Eva lived in Salt Lake City while receiving her Bachelor’s and Masters degree in Psychology along with a Bachelor’s in French. Oui Oui! Eva also became a student of Buddhism under the guidance of Genpo Roshi, and was ordained in the Soto school of Zen.
During Eva’s professional career, she worked as a case manager and Diversity Services Coordinator for a YWCA crisis shelter with 110 beds and a transitional housing program for 36 women and 125 children. Eva’s most recent work was as a bilingual psychotherapist for the Salt Lake City Rape Recovery Center- an organization that provides crisis services and counseling to sexual assault survivors, many of them with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Eva’s approach to psychotherapy include the theories of Act and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Positive Psychology, The Big Mind Technique, and Feminist and Multicultural Psychology.
We are so pleased to have Eva as part of the team! She is well equipped to walk with our clients through the complex trauma histories that compound their current struggles. Eva cultivates relationships with clients dedicated to helping them gain self-knowledge, self-love and self-mastery. In her own words: “By loving ourselves, we can work our way outward to love everyone else, first our loved ones, then strangers, then those that frustrate us and even the ones we don't like at all. From here the world becomes our friend.”
