Romie Nottage, MA, LMFT
Therapist
Romie brings over 16 years of experience working with marginalized communities within the Bay Area. Romie formerly worked on the ground within institutionalized settings, such as Napa State Hospital, San Quentin State Prison, and Acute Diversion Units (crisis residential programs). In these settings, Romie has sought to support processes within the fields of Community Mental Health, Substance abuse, Re-Entry, and Housing through the implementation of social rehabilitation, harm reduction, and other humanistic practices. She has held leadership roles in Crisis Residential, Transitional, and Supportive Housing programs, providing support to various clinical teams. She has also supported workforce development programs through her work with Downtown Streets Team. There, she supported the creation of Streets Team Enterprises, a social enterprise employing individuals who are unhoused, or re-entering from incarceration. Romie believes services, workforce development, and supportive housing should be a “soft place to land” for anyone having a tough time stabilizing their life. She takes the approach that everyone is a crisis away from homelessness, and all deserve to be honored, valued, and respected. While working in the homelessness landscape she used innovative strategies through mental health and medical programs to be in a movement of deinstitutionalizing the modern experience. Changing the narrative as to what services look and feel like to reduce institutional trauma and
elevate homelessness services to be safe and supportive, rather than bureaucratic and sterile. In graduate school, Romie created the T.R.E.E Method which stands for Transformative Recovery through Evolutionary Exploration. It is modality focused on identifying one’s self-identity while healing life’s stressors. T.R.E.E Method was founded and created throughout her extensive work in community mental health agencies, and institutionalized settings. It focuses on not only healing one sense of self but creates excitement towards all of our “one of a kind” humanity and embraces
individuality. Romie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Arizona State University, and a Master’s degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from The California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
