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Dr. Albertson from front page
“What would be ideal,” she says, “is if
they took someone experienced in domestic
violence to go out with them and help them
assess.” She goes on to say that it’s a case-bycase
basis; in an ideal world, a trained mental
health professional specializing in whatever
traumatic event occurred would accompany law
enforcement as they answer the call. However,
she understands that the police are under high
pressure right now and stresses that they do
not need or deserve criticism.
Albertson is very easy to talk to and very
personable. She says that her clients trust her,
respect her and that they work together. She
adds that if she gets a client who is belligerent
or not ready to do the work, she doesn’t keep
them in the group. This allows the group to be
vulnerable and open with each other, especially
the men, who she says are often confiding in
other men for the first time.
These days, due to the pandemic, all of her
sessions are remote, which she says has actually
helped her program greatly. “On Zoom,
they seem to feel safer and more confident,”
says Albertson, going on to say that group
members are more cohesive, willing to share,
and more supportive of each other. She hopes
to continue virtual sessions into the future. Her
son Ryan, also a certified domestic violence
counselor, along with his partner, Amy, help
her to run the administrative side of things.
“Dr. Mom,” as her son affectionately refers
to her, “is one of the most experienced domestic
violence experts in possibly the world. She
never stops,” he says.
Albertson hopes to continue working for as
long as she is able. She is committed to and
rewarded by her work with people, and her
greatest inspiration is her clients. “They are a
gift and a testimony to the human spirit’s ability
to heal and grow,” she says of her clients.
If you or someone you know If you or
someone you know might be in a situation
involving domestic abuse, you can call Options
Counseling and speak with Dr. Albertson for
more information at (310) 210-4383. She takes
phone calls all week and conducts two twohour
sessions back to back on group days. •
Dr. Albertson and son Ryan in home office.
Tubbs from page 3
while modern artists have expanded available
techniques to include screen-printing.
So now you know.
Regarding her forays into the artistic
world, Tubbs emailed that “my artwork creates
beauty from what is often considered
grotesque. I depict human disease, injuries,
wounds, scars, surgeries, and the body’s
interior and microscopic matter.” She said
she became interested in that form of art
depiction while her young niece, who was
terminally ill with cancer, lived in the same
household as Tubbs.
“I saw what she was going through,” Tubbs
said. She viewed the medical scans that her
niece brought home, and that spurred Tubbs
to begin focusing on making those images
“beautiful,” trying to portray whatever positive
experiences could be gleaned, trying to make
the viewer of her art efforts come away with
a “positive memento.’ This created a way to
inject “positivity,” she said, into a somber
subject matter. She said she has notched “a
lot” of commissions to paint for medical
survivors or from family members looking
for a beautiful, permanent creation to help
remember their loved one who had died.
“I work to create messages of hope, beauty,
and positivity in and through trauma. I make
mixed media prints and drawings, and acrylic
paintings,” Tubbs said. She said she also
enjoys designing interiors and gardens, as
well as the occasional piece of furniture,
and dabbling in what she terms “garden art.”
A longtime friend from the Cypress days,
Bonnie Shrewsbury, touted not only Tubbs’
artwork, which she termed “abstract,” but also
her “garden art” landscaping skills. “Have you
seen what she has done with her backyard?”
asked Shrewsbury, calling it “an enchanted
space…it is amazing what she has done with
that backyard.” Shrewsbury said Tubbs has
enhanced her backyard, which features “a
little pathway, a picnic table, a little sitting
area,” and said that “all of the decorations
are amazing,” highlighting Tubbs’ “eclectic
style. The backyard is so her.”
A quick tour of Tubbs’ backyard yielded
the view of what Tubbs termed “a very fun
oasis, filled with silly faux taxidermy of sea
creatures, mermaids, and broken toy planters!”
Barbara Boland, also an El Segundo resident
and artist, has known Tubbs for about a year
and a half. As a fellow artist, Boland said
that she and Tubbs have had “great conversations”
about Tubbs’s unique creations. She
said that when she appraises Tubbs’ artwork,
she views it in a “macro/micro way,” noting
the intricacies and details that Tubbs infuses
into her medically-based creations.
After her sojourn to Illinois to continue her
schooling, Tubbs returned to California. A
stint teaching art at Whittier College ensued,
but, she said, “I was happier in the business
world,” where she has toiled for 20 years,
all the while quenching her passion for art
by creating canvas magic in her spare time.
During her two years teaching at Whittier
College, Tubbs was concurrently enrolled
in a Ph.D. program at Claremont Graduate
School, studying, among other disciplines,
museums. At this point, she decided teaching
was not for her. She did not like the feeling
that she was “on stage all day” while she was
instructing students. As luck would have it,
while researching at the Getty Institute, she
met a woman who was working in the field
of finance and was looking for an assistant
to help her start an office in Los Angeles.
“I just sort of fell into this job,” Tubbs
related, noting she “immediately fell in love
with the job.” She is currently the office manager
and an executive assistant for Athene/
Apollo Solutions Group in El Segundo on
Rosecrans Boulevard.
Tubbs, like a lot of people, is currently
working from home, which she said is “great
for my artwork,” because that allows her, when
she has a few spare minutes during the day,
to embellish her newest artistic creations.
She lives in a 1920’s Spanish style house
that she has painstakingly restored, and,
conveniently for Tubbs, includes a small art
studio. As an exhibiting artist, Tubbs said
she has participated in multiple El Segundo
Art Walks, and she said she hopes to get
back to participating in Walks when it is
safe to do so.
“They are wonderful,” she said, mentioning
that the Walks have become staples for
El Segundo art-lovers, typically taking place
over three Thursdays in the summer. Tubbs
has participated as both an artist and as a
hosting venue at her house. She said she
enjoyed hosting a Walk, which allowed her
to open her home to art aficionados and
enabled her to meet some of her neighbors
that she may not have been acquainted with.
As a decade long resident of El Segundo,
Tubbs said that “the community is a laid-back,
eclectic and supportive and friendly place
to make art and live a life close to friends,
family, and the beach.”
The El Segundo community is “very
welcoming,” Tubbs said. “Neighbors will
introduce themselves to you,” Tubbs said,
saying it fits her personality because the city
is not “fancy, but has a surf-town vibe. The
restaurants have great food, but you do not
have to dress-up, put on airs. Everybody is
very down to earth.”
With four paddleboards stashed away in
her backyard, and a couple more strategically
located in other beachy spots, Tubbs seems
set to ride-out this tumultuous pandemic.
“Who knew my paradise would be found,”
she said, “smack dab between an airport,
a water treatment plant, and a refinery!” •
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