Ana Amador, LCSW

Ana Amador is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and assistant director of education and training at the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN). Her clinical and academic areas of focus include post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and mood disorders, and suicide prevention. Ana takes a present-centered and person-centered approach and has many years of experience working in community mental health and has worked in close collaboration with outside agencies across the state to meet the multiple needs of vulnerable children and families from the child welfare system. Ana is passionate about supporting healing and wellbeing on an individual and collective level, and is a strong believer that recovery is possible.