Angela Pollard

M.A.

(she/her/hers)

is doctoral graduate student in the Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology PhD Program at UC Santa Barbara. As a student clinician in The Healing Space and Santa Barbara Unified School District, she supports Black youth and adults with individual counseling services, comprehensive psychoeducational assessments for special education services, school-based youth development programming, and advocacy efforts. She focuses on integrative and relational approaches in her Healing Space work, with an emphasis on psycho-eco-cultural (PEC) healing processes such as truth/naming, reclamation, (re)connection and congruence, and empowerment.

She finds healing and restoration in the kitchen working with lots of cookbooks, being near the ocean, and practicing yoga.