Noeli Cardenas Zamora is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with many years of clinical experience providing treatment to children and adults in various sectors of the mental health community in both Southern and Northern California. As a Program Director, she has overseen the administration of treatment programs that facilitate clinical services for at risk children, families, and adults.

Noeli is a bilingual/bicultural provider with specialized training in the areas of trauma, grief and loss, behavioral analysis, intimate partner relations and Latinx women. Noeli has been an invited speaker in the areas of clinical treatment of children, professional development, and overcoming barriers to mental health recovery. She is a distinguished graduate of Pepperdine University where she received specialized training in the areas of assessment and treatment of Latinx clients. She has also been appointed as adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology during her time in Southern California.

As a program director at SSYAF, Noeli is passionate about giving back to the community she grew up in and is focused on delivering quality mental health programs for youth and their families. In her free time, Noeli enjoys reading, cooking with her family, and taking trips to Disneyland with her fiancé and daughter.