Caitlin Billings, LCSW
An open-hearted visionary who is empathic, passionate, expressive, and invested in working to create community and a better world — one practice, one clinician, one story at a time.
Caitlin Billings, LCSW (she/her)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker #60863
Founder & Clinical Director, Sana Therapy Collective
EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist
BBS Approved Clinical Supervisor
MSW - CalPoly Humboldt 2008
Caitlin's focus is on clinical supervision, practice leadership, and consulting. She has a small practice of private clients in-person only in Oakland, CA. For therapy, please reach out to Caitlin or explore the Sana team.
About Caitlin
Twenty years in this field will teach you that healing isn't linear, that the most important thing a clinician can offer is genuine, relational presence, and that building something — a practice, a community, a body of work — is itself an act of faith.
I founded Sana Therapy Collective from a deep belief that trauma-focused care should be accessible, kind, and human. What started as a solo practice has grown into a multi-location group practice with six specialized clinicians serving the East Bay — and the work of building it has been as meaningful as any clinical hour I’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing.
My career spans court-mandated domestic violence groups, partial hospitalization programs, residential rehabilitation, substance use recovery, and complex trauma — with a particular clinical home base in sexual abuse, childhood trauma, and the intersection of trauma and addiction. I am EMDRIA Certified in EMDR and I’ve spent years training others in trauma-informed approaches.
Today, my focus is on the work that multiplies: supervising the next generation of trauma clinicians, consulting with organizations navigating complex clinical terrain, and writing — because stories are how we make sense of what we've lived through, and because the world needs more clinicians willing to tell the truth about their own.
Outside the practice, I am a published memoirist, speaker, and community builder whose writing explores the intersection of lived experience and clinical work. My debut memoir, In Our Blood, is a multi-award winner published by She Writes Press. My second memoir, HELLO, CRAZY GIRL, is in progress.
