About Keiko Lane (she/her)

As a queer, multiracial Okinawan American, my interest in the impact of oppressive social practices on psychological formation grows out of more than 20 years of clinical practice. I also have more than 30 years of experience working, volunteering, and organizing with social justice, grassroots, advocacy, and arts organizations. 

I write and teach about the intersections of queer culture and kinship, oppression resistance, racial and gender justice, HIV criminalization, reproductive justice, queering sex therapy, and liberation psychology. In my California-based clinical practice I work with gender and cultural identities, sexualities, somatic and arts practices, academia, activisms, chronic illness, and HIV/AIDS. I also provide consultation and supervision to therapists navigating intersections of professional identity, clinical boundaries, and community affiliation.

My clinical supervisory experience includes the Center for Somatic Psychotherapy in San Francisco, and the Women’s Therapy Center in Berkeley, CA. In 2016 I worked with HIVE, a hub of reproductive and sexual health, to produce informational brochures about family planning and reproductive health for HIV-affected transgender individuals and families considering parenthood. I am a volunteer therapist with the Bay Area Asylum Mental Health Project.

I have written and taught about integrating social justice and relational somatic psychotherapy, and queering sex therapy. My writing has appeared most recently in The Feminist Porn Book, Queering Sexual Violence, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Healthcare, and online at the Los Angeles Review of Books, TheFeministWire.com and TheBody.com.

I hold an MA in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT 44341). 

I earned a BA in Literature from Reed College, with studies that focused on the role of art as community witnessing, documentation, and praxis invoking social engagement toward liberation and justice. I have also completed more than 500 hours of training in Massage Therapy. My studies and massage practice focused on exploring the impact of oppressive social practices and psychological trauma on embodied experience.  

In addition to regularly attending extensive seminars and trainings on a wide variety of clinical practice issues, and being in regular consultation with other clinicians, I completed three years of postgraduate training in feminist and relational psychotherapy at the Women’s Therapy Center in Berkeley.