Huckleberry Staff – Administration

Following eight years of clinical consultation to Huckleberry Youth Programs, Margo Levi, LCSW joined the staff as Clinical Director in 2010. With two decades of experience with youth and families, Margo specializes in adolescent mental health, parent education and therapist training. She worked for seven years as a staff clinician at Kaiser Permanente in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (South San Francisco) where she was also the director of social work training. She continues to teach behavioral health classes for Kaiser and sees teens, families and adults in her private psychotherapy practice (www.margolevi.com). She has provided clinical consultation and supervision as a consultant to Third Street Youth Clinic and Women’s Recovery Association. Her additional community based mental health experience includes work at Family Services Agency of San Francisco, Larkin Street Youth Services and West Coast Children’s Center. She earned her MSW from UC Berkeley.

Heidi came to the Bay Area in 2000 after working as an Executive Assistant to CEO’s for over 8 years in the Los Angeles area. Heidi received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees with honors in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University in 2007 with an emphasis on Transpersonal Psychology while interning at The Women’s Therapy Center in Berkeley, a community based non-profit that offers affordable therapy for a diverse population of women. She also held a private practice in Oakland, primarily focused on Victims of Crime, complex trauma, LGBTQ couples and women of color. Heidi returned to Southern California in 2013 and brought her expertise in the areas of trauma to the substance abuse community working as Clinical Director in both residential and outpatient settings and responsible for the development, implementation and management of a mental health program at a substance abuse and dual-diagnosis facility in Orange County. Heidi has worked extensively with the LGBTQ community creating a self-acceptance program that fosters healing and acceptance while maintaining sobriety. Heidi brings a holistic and mindfulness approach to her practice while using a variety of therapeutic modalities, including cognitive-based therapy, dialectical-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic and relational therapy. Heidi is also certified in Expressive Art Therapy providing effective and unique non-verbal ways for clients to process underlying core issues and trauma. For the past 20 years Heidi has been a freelance painter and artist holding exhibitions in both San Francisco and Oakland. She is also a passionate writer and author of hundreds of articles focusing on issues related to positive mental health and relationships. Heidi believes we all have the capacity to heal and grow no matter what the circumstances are, and views healing as an integrated journey. Edit biography