Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center
Nicolasa Munoz is an experienced mental health professional currently serving as a Mental Health Therapist at Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center since January 2022. Additionally, Nicolasa has been employed at Kaiser Permanente as a Medical Social Worker since February 2011 and has worked as a Mental Health Specialist at Familias Unidas since 2011. Nicolasa holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from John F. Kennedy University, a Master's degree in Social Work from California State University - East Bay, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of California, Davis.
Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center
The Hume Center was founded in 1993 as an Outpatient program serving the underserved populations in Central Contra Costa County is adapting to the needs of not only the changing nature of challenges in behavioral health today, but also laying the groundwork for the future. Hume Center’s endearing and an amazing team of heart-centered, professional, and highly dedicated board, management, administrative support staff or direct service staff care about making a difference in our society. The Hume Center strives to create an environment of psychological well-being both internally for our work community and externally for the community we serve, with special consideration for the under- and un-served, through practicing an enabling consultation process. We believe in serving our community through strengthening existing and developing new resources; providing the highest caliber of culturally sensitive behavioral health services, professional training, and clinical research; and focusing on consistent improvement through outcomes, data-based quality assurance, and program evaluation.