Member-Owner | Finance Circle, Wholeness Circle

Lindsey J. Bailey, MSW, LCSW is a passionate clinical social worker who has over 13 years of experience in the social work, mental health and community development field. Lindsey grew up in Chile for the majority of her life, she is bilingual and bicultural and brings a unique set of skills and experiences to her clinical practice.

Lindsey obtained her masters in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Jane Addams School of Social Work. Lindsey’s approach to her community mental health work is to accompany and support people on their journey and to hear and learn from people’s unique stories and experiences of strength, survival and resilience.

Lindsey co-founded Centro Sanar, a free mental health service provider for uninsured adults. Additionally, Lindsey is engaged in various local efforts to increase access to affordable, long term and trauma informed mental health services to community members on Chicago’s Southwest side.

Lindsey brings her organizational and program development experience, as well as her public speaking, training and workshop facilitating skills to the ReStorying Consulting team and is excited to journey alongside your team as you seek to ReStory your story!

Member-Owner | Marketing Circle, Wholeness Circle

Mariana Lopez, M.A. Counseling Psychology, 200hr-RYT Founding member of ReStorying Consulting Co-op, Founder of Yoga Tolteca, and daughter of courageous Mexican immigrants is a  mental health practitioner, body-centered trauma therapist, circle-keeper, scholar-activist, yoga educator, and community organizer based out of her hometown, Chicago.

Her interest lies in transformative healing for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, focusing on intergenerational trauma, social justice, empowerment, and cultural healing from a strengths-based perspective and Indigenous feminism lens.

Mariana currently works as a psychotherapist in community mental health and supports La Lucha (the struggle) of her community by providing yoga classes, holistic wellness programming, and education. 

Mariana’s self-love and restorative practices include running in the forest, learning about and cooking ancestral foods, stargazing, gardening, and enjoying the outdoors with friends and family.

Member-Owner | Marketing Circle

Dallas is a lifelong Chicagoan with years of experience in the city’s nonprofit sector. While working to support the health needs of South Side families, he earned an M.A. from DePaul University in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

He currently works at the Northwestern Neighborhood & Network Initiative (N3), where his research interests include violence reduction, public health, and incarceration’s impact on psychological wellbeing.

Dallas is an avid basketball fan, enjoys gardening, and spends his free time with his daughter.

Member-Owner | Growth Circle

Mateo is a father and a descendant of Mazahua (jñatrjo) of El Oro, in the State of Mexico. He honors his grandfather's community with a lifelong commitment to preserving indigenous culture and voice through creative expression.

Mateo has twenty years of experience as a Director and Facilitator that targets a broad spectrum of topics.

Focusing on expert level teaching, he guides his participants in the process of unpacking social injustices by applying a trifecta synthesis of the three: Theater of the Liberated, Indigeneity, and mindfulness, enabling people to move to create a world that is more socially just and environmentally sustainable.