Yukiko Comstock holds her master’s degree and is licensed in the states of West Virginia and Ohio. She worked as a residential therapist for a gender-specific program in a rural area of West Virginia. Many of her clients experienced extensive abuse and neglect histories. They struggled with sexuality, substance abuse, and severe mental disorders.

While serving this population, Ms. Comstock provided various trauma-informed treatment modalities such as Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC), Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (TF-CBT).

After two years of working in the residential program, she was given an opportunity to become a school-based therapist within the same organization. She worked in two local elementary schools where she advocated for children with developmental trauma history. Yukiko provided universal, identified, and selective interventions to build resiliency in youth and collaboratively worked with school officials and educators to establish a trauma-informed school environment.

Four years into her professional career, Ms. Comstock became a site director within the same organization.  She provided culturally competent administrative and clinical supervision to fellow clinicians and provided trauma-informed treatment training to clinicians and local agencies such as schools and boards of education to implement trauma-informed care as a community practice.

Yukiko currently works as an Associate Director of Mental Health Board in Ohio. She advocates for marginalized groups and individuals who may be at high risk of developing significant mental health disorders. Her population include veterans, battered women, ethnic minority groups, people with severe mental illness, and low-income individuals. Additionally, she participates in several local coalition groups to help develop strategic community plans designed to reduce mental health stigma, prevent suicide and substance abuse, and promote diversity and cultural awareness.