Daniela Domínguez

Dr. Daniela Domínguez is an assistant professor in the counseling psychology department, where she coordinates the Marriage and Family Therapy program at the Santa Rosa Location. She is also the research director at the Hanna Institute in Sonoma Valley. As a licensed psychologist, Dr. Domínguez works in the area of Latino/X mental health, immigration concerns, and LGBTQIA+ matters. Previously, her program of research has focused on understanding how immigrants cope with risks, threats, demands, and stress, and uses specific strategies to draw upon resiliencies to achieve positive health.

• Gender and sexuality
• Bilingual/bicultural training
• Immigration concerns
• Strengths-based counseling

• Immigration concerns
• Queer mental health
• LatinX mental health
• Liberation psychology
• Social justice and activism
• Linguistic proficiency of bilingual/bicultural counseling trainees
• Ddisparity between bilingual/bicultural counseling trainees and the availability of bilingual supervisors
• Improving students’ multicultural competencies in therapy
• Creative means of storytelling in therapy through mind-body-spirit practices
• LGBTQ immigrants in binational relationships
• Use of biopsychosocial evaluations with mixed-immigration-status families
• Understanding the risk factors for relationship dissatisfaction, conflict, and divorce in same-sex relationships
• LGBTQ relationally-based positive psychology

• Research Director, Hanna Institute, Sonoma Valley, California
• Faculty Association Secretary, School of Education
• Member, Undocumented Student Scholarship Committee in the School of Education

• Our Lady of the Lake University, PsyD in Counseling Psychology, 2015
• Our Lady of the Lake University, MS in Counseling Psychology, 2010
• St. Mary's University, BA in Psychology, 2007

• Research Director, Hanna Institute, Sonoma Valley, California
• Owner and Executive Director, On the Margins, LLC, San Francisco, California
• University Counselor, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
• Mental Health Clinician, Community Counseling Service, San Antonio, Texas
• Bilingual/Bicultural Clinical Supervisor, Community Counseling Service, San Antonio, Texas
• Mental Health Clinician, Rape Crisis Center, San Antonio, Texas
• Private Practice, D&D Counseling & Psychological Services, San Antonio, Texas
• Postdoctoral Resident and Predoctoral Intern, Texas State University Counseling Center, San Marcos, Texas

• Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Award, 2019
• Ignatian Service Award, 2018
• Fr. William J. Dunne Award, 2018
• Community-Engaged Learning Honoree, 2018
• Lane Center Fellow for Social Justice in the Jesuit Tradition, 2017

• Domínguez, D. G, Hernandez-Arriaga. B., Sharon, P. K. (2020). Cruzando fronteras: Liberation psychology in a counseling psychology immersion program. Journal of LatinX Psychology. 

• Domínguez, D.G. (2019). Ignatian Banners of Hope and Support for Recently Detained Immigrant Families. Resilience and Resistance:Immigrant Youth and Families. Ed. Flavio Bravo and Erin Brigham. Published by the University of San Francisco Press Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition.

• Domínguez, D. G., & Yeh, C. (2018). Social justice disaster relief, counseling, and advocacy: the case of the Northern California wildfires. Counseling Psychology Quarterly, 1–25. 

• Domínguez, D.G., & Coppock, J. (2018). Immigrant and Binational Individuals and Couples: Risk Factors for Relationship Dissatisfaction, Conflict, and Divorce. LGBTQ Divorce and Relationship Dissolution: Psychological and Legal Perspectives and Implications for Practice. Ed. Abbie Goldberg and Adam P. Romero. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Domínguez, D. G., Bobele, M., Coppock, J., & Peña, E. (2015). LGBTQ relationally based positive psychology: An inclusive and systemic framework. Psychological Services, 12(2), 177–185.