Randall Ramirez, LMFT, LCSW

Randall Ramirez is dual-licensed in California as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and he brings more than 40 years of clinical and leadership experience to his work with youth, adults, seniors, and families. He has treated a wide range of emotional disorders, health-related illnesses, and challenges related to environmental stress, drawing on roles in both management and direct service across behavioral health, social services, residential care, and health care settings.

His primary clinical interests include early attachment, complex trauma, relational difficulties, and transcultural sensitivity, and he applies a range of evidence-informed approaches to support change. His methods include attachment-based and client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative and psychodynamic therapies, solution-focused techniques, trauma-focused interventions, and systemic perspectives. Randall works with issues such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting and fatherhood concerns, depression, and related areas like abandonment, attachment issues, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, guilt and shame, and isolation.

He founded and chaired the South County Roundtable on Attachment (SCRoA), an interdisciplinary professional and parent group in south Santa Clara County focused on studying attachment disorders and identifying research-based models of practice, beginning in 2010. In his personal life he is an adoptive father of children with special needs and offers parent-to-parent support through the faith-based Parent-Child Connection support group of Help One Child.