Practica Consultant

Christina Feliciana

Practica Consultant

Christina Feliciana, MSW, LCSW, PPSC has been at Cal since 2007. She is the Project Coordinator for the Child Welfare Scholars (Title IVE) Program.

Christina is mixed race/Black and was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She attended Georgetown University where she received a BA in English with a minor in women's studies. After college, she participated in a service-learning program, serving Chicago's Southside. After this intense experience teaching fifth and second graders, she felt called to social work. She returned to California where she earned her master's in...

Claudette Mestayer

Practica Consultant

Claudette Mestayer is a bicultural, bilingual, licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in Oakland with many years of experience in community mental health. Claudette specializes in clients with trauma histories and is dedicated to supporting BIPOC, first and second-generation immigrants, and the LGBTQIA+ community. Claudette has had the privilege of working at various leading healthcare organizations and non-profit agencies including Kaiser Permanente, Highland Hospital, UCSF SFGH, St. Mary's and East Bay Agency for Children. She also has years of experience conducting...

Robert Watts III

Practica Consultant

Field Consultant Robert Watts obtained his MSW from Berkeley in 2013. In addition to several years of employment at Seneca Family of Agencies as a counselor and therapist, Robert has been a leading social worker at New Haven Unified School District (Union City, CA), where he specialized in coordination of services, trauma informed and restorative practices, as well as the implementation of social and emotional development. Robert also has a private practice where he focuses on working with adults of color on managing stress, relationships, and challenges related to communication, identity...