Gina, the Founder and Clinical Director of MAGIS, is an educator and mental health clinician with a combined experience of 30 years in educational and clinical settings. As a clinician in private practice, she is a certified trauma specialist and board certified art therapist focused on working with individuals, couples, and families dealing with a range of issues: stress, depression, suicidality, and other personality, mood, behavioral and developmental concerns.
Kathy is a strategic planner and HROD practitioner with over 20 years of experience in managing transitions, shaping teams, and navigating unstructured environments. Guided by systems-based and creative learning approaches to organizational change, she has fostered coaching relationships in the workplace to address productivity, performance, work life balance, and mental health concerns.
Her experience of compassion fatigue and chronic stress in her corporate career has brought her personal work as a writer, musician, and poet into an essential position of shaping practices of wellbeing through arts-based research and project development as Managing Director of MAGIS Creative Spaces. Her background in the arts began with training at the UP Conservatory of Music. She is also a fourth generation steward and member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern Philippines, and executive committee member of ABJ Foundation.
Since then she has had 18 years of work experience in the different areas of Human Resources and independent projects specializing in organizational development and teambuilding programs. She is known for her communication and interpersonal skills which have served well in employee relations and employee engagement programs.
Miah came to be an advocate for mental health self-care, character development, and social development as a result of her experiences at work and through addressing depression and anxiety.
