Staff Profiles
Karla Castillo - 415-338-7233
Assistant Program DirectorCounseling and Psychological Services Center
Prevention Education Programs:
CEASE and The SAFE Place
Karla has been working SF State since 2006 as well as interning at the Counseling Clinic and CEASE Prevention Education Programs since 2004. Prior to working at SF State she worked in the Mission District of San Francisco for over 12 years with Mission Girls Services providing support groups for girls in San Francisco public middle and high schools, organizing community events, as well as coordinating arts based after school programming for young people. She is also a co-founder of Loco Bloco, a youth development organization whose mission is to promote Bay Area youth's healthy transition into adulthood by engaging them in the creation and performance of music, dance and theater traditions reflecting the cultural diversity of the Americas.
Since she began her work at The SAFE Place Karla has been trained and certified by San Francisco Women Against Rape and Women Inc. Karla received her Master’s Degree in Counseling in 2006 and is currently working towards licensure.
Ismael de Guzman - 415-338-1203
Prevention Education Specialist- Men's Program
Counseling and Psychological Services Center
Prevention Education Programs: The SAFE Place - Men Can Stop Violence
Ismael de Guzman's position was borne out of the need to have men involved in the work to end violence against women and men. He received his BA in Sociology from SF State and is currently working on his Masters in Counseling with an emphasis on Marriage & Family Therapy and a specialization in Gerontology at SF State. For the past, 4 years he's helped create a men's program in addressing sexual violence in the campus community from a male-allyship perspective. He has always shown interest in working with men in different capacities. Creating the program Men Can Stop Violence has allowed him to be able to support men in better understanding themselves as positive members of society by addressing violence from a male-ally perspective. He's created an event called Walk In Her Heels involving men to walk in women's heels to show support in continuing to create awareness about violence against women. He applies expressive arts as an amazing instrument in exploring the human experience, for that reason he created CockTales, a men's stories platform where men compose their stories of what it means to be a man. Thereafter, each men finish writing their piece, they subsequently perform their written work in front of hundreds of people.
He believes his work addressing sexual violence and intimate partner violence are both social justice issues because they are both forms of oppression. He believes in addressing ALL forms of oppression. He's helped create awareness around LGBT issues on campus by acting as a staff co-chair for the Queer Yo Mind Conference and being an active committee member for Pride @ SF State which began in 2009. He's been leading an anger management group for the past two semesters supporting students by applying cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as elements of mindfulness and buddhist approach. He also leans towards a social justice, narrative, cognitive behavioral (CBT), person-centered approach to counseling in supporting students in their development.
