MAY 2020 | MEET OUR FELLOW: UNA STARBUCK
MEET OUR FELLOW Una Starbuck, MA, LMFT HISTORY: I grew up on the island of Maui, left and explored the world via higher education (San Francisco) and travel (Egypt, Nepal, Australia…), and returned to Hawaii to both help my family and serve the Maui Community. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Dance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Somatics from the California Institute of Integral Studies. I live in the Mauka Region on Maui on a farm with my beloved husband, 2 cats, 1 dog, 2 cows, 14 goats, 50+ chickens and a grumpy but loveable donkey named Liberty. GOALS: To be an excellent trauma therapist for children, teens and adults here on Maui. To have therapy be fun, creative, effective, brain-based and forward moving. To develop Hawaii centered curriculum for kids, teens and parents that help us make friends with thoughts, feelings and sensations, and strengthen our selves. To contribute to my community therapeutically, make the needed things happen so that local kids are healthy mentally and emotionally and empowered. To get better at watercolor painting. (My coronavirus shutdown hobby.)
WORK: I am currently in private practice here in Kahului, Maui. I just moved into full-time private practice this past January 2020. Previously to this, I worked for seven years at Child and Family Service, Maui Office, first as a therapist for the Maui Sexual Assault Center and in domestic violence programs, and then for the last year as a Clinical Supervisor for therapists in CFS’s Maui County Programs, including Molokai programs. I am a rostered clinician in Child-Parent Psychotherapy. HOPES: That this crisis causes good community change for us all to be able to afford and live sustainably in Hawaii. That we all know how wonderful and unique we each are. That we live more in harmony with each other and nature.
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher