Admin Outpatient Licensed
Telecare Corporation
Alameda, California
Brenda Simpson Hamamoto is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, recognized for her transformative leadership in crisis mental health care and recovery-oriented systems. With more than two decades of experience, Brenda has dedicated her career to advancing equitable, trauma-informed, and person-centered services that meet individuals where they are at in their most critical moments.
Her professional expertise is deeply enriched by lived experience—as a Peer living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, a survivor of trauma, and the mother of a son with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Major Depressive Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. This unique intersection of personal and clinical insight fuels her unwavering commitment to humanizing care, honoring lived experience, and driving change across systems.
Currently, Brenda oversees a Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU), serving both adults and youth, where she leads interdisciplinary teams in responding to acute mental health needs with dignity, urgency, and recovery at the core. Her leadership spans Full-Service Partnerships (FSP), Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Homeless Assistance Programs (PATH, HUD), Integrated Mobile Health Teams, justice-involved services, and Recovery, Resilience and Reintegration (RRR) programs.
Brenda is also a respected educator, guest lecturer, and clinical trainer, known for her work in suicide assessment and prevention, ethical documentation, crisis resolution, outreach/engagement, psychosocial recovery planning and clinical integrative practices. She is deeply invested in mentoring and equipping the next generation of mental health professionals, providing clinical supervision and education rooted in the Psychosocial Recovery framework and the Housing First model in a variety of service settings.
Her guiding principle is simple yet profound: to treat every individual with the same compassion, respect, and hope she wishes for her son when receiving services and interventions. Brenda believes in honoring a person’s unique gifts, to hold hope when individuals cannot yet hold it for themselves, to help people reclaim their power and support them in building the quality of life they envision—with purpose, connection, and meaning.
Through this lens, she approaches every crisis not just as a challenge, but as a critical opportunity for healing, transformation, and resilience.
F8 - Peer Power: Optimizing Services Across the Crisis Spectrum with Peer Staff
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MDT