Whole Hearts, Minds & Bodies
Clinical Team
Shawn Benjaminson, LMFT
Clinical Supervisor
Shawn has been a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since January 1998. For the past 20 + years she has had a passion to effect positive change in the lives of families and children. After completing an internship with Placer County Mental Health she worked for Sierra Family Services in Tahoe City for 14 years, twelve of which she was the Clinical Supervisor. In addition to providing clinical staff supervision she provided psychotherapy for adults, children, groups and families. Other duties included drug and alcohol assessment and treatment as well as crisis intervention. Shawn then became the Children’s Therapist for Nevada County Behavioral Health in Truckee were she was able to focus on her interest in disorders beginning in infancy, childhood and adolescents; treatment of trauma and anxiety as well as mood and eating disorders. Currently, she has been working as contracted provider for Tahoe Truckee Unified School District within the Special Education Department working with students who have emotional support needs. She enjoys the work she does with Gateway Mountain Center as a Clinical Support Person to the program and mentors. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her family, skiing, mountain biking and camping.
Tabitha Magner
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Tabbie is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who has a passion for working with adolescents and their families in helping support family communication during transitional years. She is celebrating her first year working and living in Tahoe after earning her Masters in bilingual therapy at San Diego State University. Tabbie speaks both English and Spanish and loves to implement theories of linguistic justice, working alongside clients to express themselves in the ways they are most comfortable. She also loves being outside and finds joy in embracing how we can find connections in nature and therapeutic healing. She believes therapy can be an important space to practice leaning into the vulnerability of sharing and exploring emotions. Tabbie enjoys working from a systemic, strengths based perspective- empowering folks to be the experts in their lives and guide in their own therapeutic journey. She hopes to support the Tahoe community with a therapeutic space that feels collaborative and affirming of clients and their experiences.
Krystal Pérez
MFT Trainee
Krystal is a Puerto Rican sociologist passionate about eradicating gender based violence and understanding how traumatic experiences affect people's physical, emotional and social processes. With 15 years’ experience facilitating support groups of gender based violence victims, she dedicated her graduate studies to find ways to improve care spaces for immigrant women in Puerto Rico and Spain. This is where she completed her Master's degree in Communication for Social Change and Development. In turn, she did her first Yoga TT in 2014 and went to India to deepen the practice. She is the Co-founder of “Arme: Narrativa Psico-corporal “ a program who gives psychotherapy and trauma sensitive yoga services for trauma survivors to Spanish speaking people in Latin America since 2017.