Dr. Rachel Talamantez is a trainer, clinician, teacher, and consultant.  She oversees KidScope Center for Developmental and Behavioral Health, part of Santa Clara County’s Behavioral Health Department and the Santa Clara County Infant Family Early Childhood Mental Health Training Academy. Along with training and clinical work, her career has focused on program development, implementation, evaluation, management and reflective consultation/supervision. Dr. Talamantez is also adjunct faculty in the Child Development Department at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, CA and is Assistant Director of the University of California Davis Extension, Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program. She is the co-developer of the Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Reflective Supervision, Consultation, Facilitation Academy, which aims to train practitioners as Reflective Practice Facilitators. She is a National Trainer with the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, a certified DIR/Floortime practitioner, a certified practitioner and supervisor in Video Intervention Therapy and is currently in the process of certification in Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics. She holds a doctorate from Argosy University and a master’s degree from the University of San Francisco in Counseling Psychology. In addition, she has completed post-graduate work through the Harris Early Childhood Mental Health Training program at Children’s Hospital Oakland, the Napa Infant Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program, and the Child Trauma Institute in San Francisco, affiliated with the University of San Francisco and Jewish Family Children’s Services. She presents regularly at regional, state, national and international conferences on infant mental health, trauma and young children, reflective practice, & child development.

Last Update 9/2016