Spotlighting our Members

As the new membership chair I will start communicating with various articles throughout the year. My intention is to highlight our members and how they’ve found our chapter to be useful professionally as well as personally. I know that as a member since 2012, I have benefited from our chapter in so many ways.

I have made long lasting friendships that continue to improve my life as a person. I was on the Executive Board as CFO from 2014-2018, and now am on the Full Board as your membership chair. The leadership training I have received from past presidents; Randi Gottlieb and Shelly Pearce has been so valuable for me. Our presiding president, Christina Castorena continues to provide the support and leadership qualities that I am able to use in other roles outside of our chapter.

This month I am going to highlight Pamela Payton, M.A., LMFT. I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Pamela at many of our events. Pamela has always been a member who will ask, “how can I help?” Her commitment to our compassionate community continues to be the reason our chapter is so vibrant.

Pamela has been a licensed therapist for over thirty years. She is a brief/solution-focused therapist, with a primary focus on couples and relationship counseling. Clients receive support and guidance via cognitive/behavioral techniques to increase coping and communication skills, reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms, and manage grief and loss.

Pamela was a Board member of LA-CAMFT for four years and ended her position in December 2015. Pamela states, “I enjoy the structure, events, fun, people, speakers, networking, etc. I've derived a great deal of benefit and satisfaction from all the years that I've been a participant.”

hank you Pamela for being such a devoted member of CAMFT and the LA-CAMFT.

Valerie "Billie" Klayman, M.A., LMFT, an integrative Meaning Centered Therapist, became a supervisor at Antioch University Counseling Center in 2014. Billie initiated a partnership between AUCC and the Culver City Senior Center offering pro-bono therapy and group therapy to members of CCSC. December 2016, Culver City hired Billie to help residents of the community at the Culver City Senior Center. She’s presented on Substance Abuse and Addiction. Billie can be reached at  membershipchair@lacamft.org.