Behavioral Health Director
Mission Neighborhood Health Center
Before joining MNHC, Silvia Sandoval was the Mental Health Director at Lyon-Martin Health Services and Women’s Community Clinic. She has been practicing professionally for the last 19 years, mostly in the nonprofit sector providing direct, clinical social work services to members of disenfranchised communities, immigrants and people of color. She also worked for Yale-New Haven Hospital, in private practice and served a 4-year tenure at the National Institute of Mental Health. Mx. Sandoval has a Master’s degree in social work from the Catholic University of America and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at The Smith College School for Social Work. She is psycho-dynamically and relationally trained with an emphasis on social and racial justice, intersectionality, trauma and their long-term effects on the mental health of individuals and communities.