2025 RPA Board of Directors

Jennifer Lotz, PsyD   President

she/her  Dr. Lotz has been a member of RPA since 2013, and is a licensed psychologist in Santa Rosa, CA offering in-person and telehealth services.  She previously worked in multiple college counseling centers in California and Ohio prior to opening her private practice in 2019.  Dr. Lotz works from an interpersonal/relational perspective with a multicultural lens, offering both individual and group therapy.  Dr. Lotz specializes in working with young adults, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and their families, and individuals seeking to process and heal from childhood abuse and sexual trauma.

Dr. Lotz earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and went on to earn both master’s and doctorate degrees from the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.  She assisted in the development of Focused Brief Group Therapy (FBGT) and authored the FBGT Treatment Manual used globally to enhance the practice of brief therapy groups. She has presented the approach at the American Group Psychotherapy Association’s annual meeting six times.  She holds a certification in TeleMental Health from the Zur Institute. She has volunteered with Hospice, AIDS Resource Center (ARC), Safespace programs, and the Sonoma County Pride Parade.  This is her third year serving on the RPA Board. 

  

Loi Medvin, PsyD   Vice President

she/her  Dr. Loi is in private practice seeing individuals and couples throughout California for therapy and intensives, via teletherapy and in person with a collaborative, holistic approach. She incorporates somatic, Ketamine-Assisted-Psychotherapy, mindfulness, parts therapy, CBT, neuropsychology, Brainspotting (certified), and energy psychology grounded in a psychodynamic, depth-oriented framework. She specializes in affect regulation (anger management/anxiety reduction), integrating transformational experiences, prenatal/postpartum, parenting issues, midlife and menopause with a focus on empowering clients and encouraging their connection to themselves, others and the earth. She occasionally offers workshops and trainings, and hosts Ecstatic Dance Sebastopol (since 2014), often offering the closing sound baths and meditations.

Dr. Loi has a background in non-profits, radio, event production and community organizing. Her clinical work began in 2005, when she began graduate school as a single mother (after an almost 10 year break from school). Her CRP was entitled, “The Role of Empathy in the Domestic Violence Treatment of Male Batterers” through a feminist theory lens and she graduated in 2011, becoming a member of RPA that same year. She was licensed in 2014 after 3 years of postdoc in a private practice neuropsychology clinic.

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Carla Payne  Secretary -Membership Chair

BIO coming soon.

Sandy Peace PsyD, CST   Treasurer

she/her/Dr. Dr. Peace is a California licensed psychologist and AASECT certified sex therapist in private practice. She works from her home office in Petaluma providing individual, couples / partners, and group therapy via telehealth. Dr. Peace utilizes a wide range of therapeutic techniques: CBT, DBT, EMDR, solution-focused, somatic, mindfulness, psychodynamic, relational, and multicultural. She is a generalist clinician with expertise in identity development, LGBT+, polyamory / ENM (Ethical Nonmonogamy), trauma, relationships, and sexuality.

Dr. Peace received her doctorate in clinical psychology from John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill in 2012. She was supervised by Dr. Michael Pinkston at her 3rd year practicum at Sonoma State University Counseling Center (along with Dr. Loi Medvin). After completing her internship and post-doc at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Counseling Center (where she worked with Dr. Jen Lotz), she moved to Los Angeles and started a private practice in DTLA in 2015. There Dr. Peace was active with the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, including providing training for the Couple’s Therapy Special Interest Group on working with bisexual and polyamorous clients, and she was a community organizer and educator in the polyamorous and bisexual communities. She moved back to Sonoma County in 2020 during the pandemic to be near her personal support network.

Dr. Peace’s first career was in the AEC field doing payroll, accounting, and financial engineering, marketing and business development. (She was on the engineering team that helped create development impact fees for new neighborhoods in the City of Rohnert Park.) She is also a foodie who loves planning and hosting events.

 

Lindsay Kenny   Administrator

she/her   Lindsay has a background in Advertising, Media and Marketing. After taking a break from her career to stay at home with her children Mason and Ryder, she decided to rejoin the workforce part time. Her role as RPA administrator is the perfect fit – allowing her to work part time and still be home for her kids. She joined RPA in 2018 and her role includes marketing, membership management, event planning and website management among other tasks. We are grateful for Lindsay’s talents and ongoing support!