GOLD Speakers

Chelsea Crow-Fuentes, LMFT, PMH-C, SEP

• Speaker Type: 2025 Main Presentations
• Country: USA

Biography:

Chelsea is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT), Certified Perinatal Mental Health Clinician (PMH-C), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), and Clinical Supervisor. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Master of Arts degree with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Azusa Pacific University (APU). Chelsea is an Adjunct Professor at APU and Vanguard University, and is passionate about investing and equipping the next generation. Together with her husband she specializes in couples’ intensives, and individually she specializes in maternal mental health. Her current work focuses on supporting women and couples in renegotiating and reprocessing through experiences of birth trauma, NICU stays, perinatal mood & anxiety disorders, perinatal grief & loss, incomplete self-protective responses, early attachment ruptures, intergenerational trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and infidelity and betrayal.

In addition to her focus on maternal mental health and couples counseling, she has extensive experience working with developmental & complex trauma, HIV/AIDS, addiction and substance abuse as a former Certified Addiction Treatment Counselor (CATC), shame, loss of identity and self-harm behaviors, & has international experiences working clinically in Kenya, East Africa. Chelsea and her husband reside in Orange County, CA with their two daughters, one of whom was a 29+0 weeker, spending 61 days in the NICU at the height of the second wave of the pandemic.