Connect with Aylin
Resilience Consultants provide support to teachers and school staff, and work together to build a positive school climate for high-quality teaching and enriched student learning. As your Resilience Consultant, Aylin is available to you for confidential conversations that will not be used for evaluation of your job performance in any way.
Some of the ways in which our Resilience Consultants are helpful to teachers include:
Giving you emotional support as everyone adjusts to returning to their school community
Encouraging proven practices that support your personal and professional resilience
Sharing information and resources for increasing positive communication and strengthening connections at school
Brainstorming ways to respond to challenging dynamics at school
Facilitating social emotional learning lessons that focus on building student and classroom resilience skills
Observing students, as an extra set of eyes in the classroom, to help gather information on student strengths and needs for your own information, SST meetings, or parent conferences
Strategizing approaches to students, families, and colleagues with a focus towards improving behavior, relationships, and academic performance
Enhancing the social emotional practices of your classroom community with increased understanding of students’ social emotional needs
Engaging in strengths-based reflection, integration, and opportunity conversations with you, which is often the foundation for holding these conversations with your own students
You can contact Aylin by email at Aylin@AcknowledgeAlliance.org
Aylin Hernandez grew up in Ventura County and is a first-generation college graduate. She got her B.A. in Psychology from California Lutheran University and an M.S. in Counseling Psychology with a focus on Attachment from California Lutheran University. Her experience includes working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. Her passion lies in working with her clients to discover their strengths and resilience, which allows them to move forward and live a more fulfilling life. Aylin believes that we all deserve to be heard, seen, and valued in our lives. She brings empathy, compassion, and active listening when working with her clients. She wants everyone she helps feel heard and validated in the space she creates.
Aylin’s journey in advocating for mental health began when she got support from her counselor and teacher in high school. Working with the alliance team has opened the door to work with educators and provide them with a non-judgement space to process emotions and feelings that come with day-to-day life. She is dedicated to working with clients and helping achieve wellness. Aylin’s goal is to help her clients achieve wellness by providing them with tools and techniques to cope with difficult situations.
In her free time, Aylin loves spending time with her partner, family, and friends. She enjoys traveling, reading, cooking, going to Disneyland and working out. Aylin is grateful for her friends she made in graduate school who have helped her shape into the therapist she is becoming today.
Acknowledge Alliance is a mental health agency that promotes lifelong resilience in children and youth, and strengthens the caring capacity of the adults who influence their lives. Since 1994, Acknowledge Alliance (formerly the Cleo Eulau Center) has used the power of fostering resilience to help build positive connections between teachers and students to open the doors to learning and wellbeing. The foundation of Acknowledge Alliance started with the belief that when a child has a caring adult in their life who holds high expectations and believes in them, they can succeed despite adversities. Acknowledge Alliance serves K-8 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, integrating resilience into all levels of learning by coaching educators, counseling at-risk youth and teaching social emotional learning lessons for the whole classroom.