President: Rebekah Tinker, LCSW (she/her)
Secretary: Margey DeCuir, AMFT (she/they)
Treasurer: Benjamin Cole, AMFT (he/him)
Membership Coordinator: Vera Fleischer, LMFT (she/her)
Marketing & Outreach Chair: (Currently open)
Social Media Coordinator: (Currently open)
Professional Development Coordinator: Elizabeth McGinnis, LPCC (she/her)
Volunteer Coordinator: (Currently open)
Antiracism & Equity Committee Chair: (Currently open)
Members-At-Large:
About the Board
Secretary - Margey DeCuir LMFT
Margey has been a clinician for 5 years and has been an Open Minds member since 2021. Margey joined the board in hopes of keeping it alive and is now passionate about preserving this unique listserv and member population. As an LMFT, Margey offers Private Practice therapy, working primarily with Queer, non-binary, SW, ENM, and kinky folx. Margey also works full-time in Community Mental Health, as a Crisis Clinician serving youth in San Francisco and Marin County. Margey specializes in Somatic therapy, in addition to trauma-informed, solutions-focused, humanist, relational, and intersectional liberation approaches to therapy. As a human, Margey is a full-time single parent who enjoys long walks in nature, community activism, volunteerism, live music, comedy, and craft cocktails. Margey identifies as a Queer, gender-nonconforming femme, and is an active member of the ENM and Kink communities.
President - Rebekah Tinker LCSW
Rebekah has been a member of BAOM since 2020, and has served on the board since summer of 2022, first as secretary, then taking over as President in spring 2024. Rebekah works in private practice, specializing in relationships and parenting, sex and sexuality, body image, disordered eating, and identity development. Her clinical approach holds an intersectional feminist and psychodynamic lens, focusing on deconstructing conscious and unconscious beliefs and behaviors, and weeding out what holds us captive in doubt, while empowering individuality and acceptance of self. Outside of work Rebekah is an endurance runner, podcast host, liberation psychologist, and pup mom. Rebekah identifies as queer and polyamorous.
Membership Coordinator - Vera Fleischer LMFT
Vera started out as the Marketing & Outreach Chair in 2016 and has been the Membership Coordinator since 2019. She got her start in private practice in San Francisco but has since relocated to Germany where she runs a bilingual practice (English & German) and from where she continues to see clients in California and serve on the BAOM board. With a therapeutic foundation of Gestalt, her clinical specialities include childhood emotional neglect, attachment trauma, shame, perfectionism, and non-normative household configurations. For the last six years her therapeutic stance has been increasingly informed by her active involvement in a group focused on antiracism. In her spare time, Vera enjoys exploring metropolitan areas, learning Dutch and French, attending conferences and workshops, advocating for social justice causes, and delighting in the cuteness of her chihuahua Flipper.
Treasurer - Benjamin Cole AMFT
Ben joined the board in 2025, drawn by his commitment to the Open Mind community and Liberation psychology. With a background in community mental health and experience at the Liberation Institute, he now maintains a private practice working with teens, adults, and couples. Ben is passionate about integrating systemic approaches in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Outside of his clinical work, he enjoys building tiny homes and playing ragtime music.
Professional Development - Elizabeth McGinnis LPCC
Elizabeth joined the board in 2024 after learning about the Open Mind community and wanting to be part of driving change and action forward. She got her start in community mental health with trauma and is now working in private practice with adults and couples. She is passionate about coming from a place of acceptance and self-expression in her work with those who feel just a little out of step with the rest of the world. In her spare time, Elizabeth enjoys exploring the world, indulging in painting, and losing herself in music.
