Beda Gamboa

Beda Gamboa is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 20 years of professional experience helping individuals and families navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, depression, self-esteem concerns, and compassion fatigue. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and adapts treatment plans to match each client’s unique needs and goals.

Beda’s career spans government, non-profit, and private sectors, with clinical training at the U.S. Army Medical Department in Houston, TX, the Maimonides Center for Sleep Disorders in New Mexico, and the Soldier Center in Clarksville, TN, where she treated complex combat trauma using evidence-based approaches. She holds national certifications in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Motivational Interviewing, and Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT), among other evidence-based practice models, and has trained hundreds of healthcare providers.

While assigned to the Fort Irwin National Training Center, Beda advocated for telehealth advancement, and she led efforts to develop and implement telehealth services during the pandemic in Los Angeles County. She is a proponent of Health Information Exchange (HIE) to improve interoperability, enhance value, and support better experiences and outcomes for patients and providers. Her clinical experience includes working with active-duty soldiers, children and families, people diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness, individuals facing substance abuse, and people with health conditions or impairments to increase access to equitable healthcare.

Beda earned her master’s degree from Columbia University School of Social Work and completed undergraduate degrees in Sociology and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an alumna of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and completed the Cedars-Sinai Managing to Lead Program through the Healthforce Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Outside of work she enjoys Cuban coffee, traveling, spending time with her “love tribe,” and soccer.