Who We Are

About RTF

Rainbow Transformations Foundation is a TGI-led organization building the first community co-designed care model for transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex individuals in Los Angeles — and beyond.

Founder & Executive Director

Hana Leyland

Hana Leyland

Hana Leyland is a queer woman of trans experience, a recovery coach, and the Executive Director of Rainbow Transformations Foundation — a TGI-led organization building the first community co-designed care model for transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex individuals in Los Angeles.

She brings over four years of direct practice in recovery coaching, wellness companionship, and case management within the behavioral health field, alongside her own seven-year recovery from substance use, an eating disorder, and mental health challenges. Her work is grounded in lived experience — not as a disclosure, but as a clinical orientation.

She understands, from the inside, what it takes to build trust with TGI clients who have learned not to expect it from the systems meant to serve them. She works with clients in early recovery and those navigating transition alongside other forms of life instability — the moments when identity, sobriety, housing, relationships, and survival are all in motion at once.

Her background is deliberately cross-disciplinary. She has supported clients ranging from individuals in early-twenties instability to working professionals, world-touring performers, and high-profile figures navigating treatment alongside public lives.

EducationBA in Theology, Oxford University · Master's in International Human Rights Law
Practice4+ years recovery coaching, wellness companionship, case management in behavioral health
RecoverySeven years · substance use, eating disorder, and mental health challenges
LocationLos Angeles · she/her
IndustriesLegal, advertising, entertainment, and behavioral health
She is not a therapist. She is the piece that most TGI clients in treatment are missing.
Lived experience as clinical orientation — not as disclosure, but as framework. She understands, from the inside, what it takes to build trust with TGI clients who have learned not to expect it from the systems meant to serve them.
Board of Directors
Sherry Young
Sherry Young, PhD, CSAT
President of the Board · Clinical Educator & Consultant · Taos, New Mexico · she/her/hers

Sherry Young, PhD, CSAT has worked in the Behavioral Health field for 18 years as clinical liaison providing triage, assessment, and admissions referral and advocacy for clients of licensed therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists who treat mental health and addictive disorders. From 1997 to the present, she has provided ongoing consultation for practice growth to therapists and counseling practices. She is currently owner and independent consultant at the Right Fit Collaborative.

Dr. Patrick Lockwood
Dr. Patrick Lockwood, PsyD
Vice President · Clinical Implementation & Educational Institution Liaison · Los Angeles, CA · he/him/his

Dr. Patrick Lockwood has worked at every level of the mental health and addiction treatment industry, as well as for non-profits and startups. His background in community interventions began before he graduated from the University of Missouri, where he successfully co-authored a grant creating a virtual intervention to help parents on campus become more connected and develop a support community.

Sonia Figueroa
Sonia Figueroa, Esq.
Board Director · General Counsel · San Diego, California · she/her/hers

Sonia Figueroa, Esq. is a sole practitioner at SSFL Law, APC, practicing immigration law exclusively since 2014 — focusing on family immigration, humanitarian relief, and citizenship. She is a member of the LGBTQ+ Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, a US Army veteran, and former USCIS immigration service officer. She received her J.D. from Loyola Law School.

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Advisors
Jeff Gaddess
Jeff Gaddess, PhD, MA
Systems Architect · Vulnerable & Underserved Communities

Jeff Gaddess is a systems architect for vulnerable and underserved communities. With more than three decades of experience redesigning how providers, cities, and counties respond to homelessness, serious mental illness, and structural displacement, he has developed non-congregate housing ecosystems, co-occurring disorder programs, neurodivergent-informed care models, and diversionary pathways that support reintegration from incarceration and long-term hospitalization back into community.

A recognized expert in trauma-informed systems design, Jeff has helped shape organizations, programs, and physical environments to prioritize safety, dignity, and belonging from the ground up. His work consistently produces outcomes that exceed industry benchmarks because it is rooted in human dignity, relational care, and sustainable systems change.

Trained as a depth psychologist and organizational psychologist, Jeff also serves as adjunct faculty, mentoring the next generation of undergraduate and graduate clinicians entering the field. He brings a rare combination of clinical depth, operational fluency, and partnership-building expertise to complex initiatives requiring both visionary design and practical implementation.