Jezreel Cornel, AMFT

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“While telling one’s story of burden bearing [pagdadala] is called paghihinga, in the process, the burden bearer is maibsan, the root word of which is ibis, meaning to put down a burden”

-Edwin Decenteceo

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Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #159528 (California)

Supervised by William Kelly, Licensed Clinical Social Worker #86426

Jezreel “jez” Cornel (He/Him/Siya ᜐᜒᜌ) is a second-generation Filipino American, heteronormative cisgender male, Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) born and raised in San Diego, California, on Kumeyaay ancestral lands.

Jezreel Cornel is from California State University, Sacramento’s BA in Psychology program and San Diego State University's MS in Marriage and Family Therapy program with a focus on Narrative Therapy. Jezreel received clinical training in the San Diego Unified School District Outpatient Program as a school-based therapist.

Alongside his formal education, Jezreel studied Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino Psychology) through conversations with established Filipino mental health professionals and reviewing existing literature. Jezreel is a community organizer through San Diego Kababayan, and is an honorary member supporting Kasamahan's Board of Directors as resource support and social media.

Jez’s SolPath is witnessing storytelling through curiosity, collaboratively co-creating and re-authoring intergenerational messages that may have been passed down non/consensually, honoring the duality/multiplicity of realities with cultural humility, and guiding individuals in one-on-one therapy. You are the expert in your own life.

Jez has a passion for working with Filipinx/Americans, colonialism/colonial mentality, decoloniality, Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino Psychology) and Filipino American Psychology, intergenerational messages, stress management, anxiety, depression, identity, life transitions, grief/loss, men’s issues, and self-esteem.

This is the space to bear witness to all of your stories. Breathe in, breathe out.

“To the ones who have come before us. To our ancestry, lineage, and culture.

To our community of kapwa ᜃᜉ᜔ᜏ”