San Diego, California, United States
I'm a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of clinical care, supervision, psychological assessment, and behavioral health leadership. My work spans outpatient, PHP/IOP, residential, correctional, school-based, and telehealth settings — giving me a rare breadth of perspective that informs both my clinical judgment and my leadership approach. At my core, I am a husband, a father, and someone who genuinely believes that the right support at the right moment can change the trajectory of a person's life. In the course of my career, I have worked across many corners of the mental health field. Along the way, I grew from direct patient care into clinical supervision, then into clinical director and executive director roles. I have also contributed to the research literature, publishing work on the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral treatments for late-life depression and on neuropsychological functioning in alcohol use disorder. Today, I am based in San Diego and provide psychotherapy and psychological assessment services throughout California via telehealth. My clinical focus includes mood disorders, trauma, and substance use disorders, and I specialize in ACT, DBT, CBT, MBSR, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. I also continue to supervise pre- and postdoctoral interns in their professional training. After more than two decades, what keeps me in this work is the same thing that drew me to it: supporting people. The colleagues who show up with compassion every day, the psychology interns who push themselves to grow professionally, and the patients who summon remarkable courage in pursuit of healing. If you are navigating recovery, processing trauma, or simply trying to find your footing again, I would be honored to walk that path with you!
• Collaborate patient care within an inner disciplinary treatment team, conduct mental status exams, danger to self/others risk evaluations, assess medical necessity for level of care, crisis interventions, and provide weekly individual and group therapy services to incarcerated persons within the Enhanced Outpatient Program (EOP) at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.
• Predominantly Native American patient population. • Co-ed, substance addiction/mental health PHP/IOP treatment program. • Provide weekly individual and group supervision for G1 practicum students in the PsyD program at CSPP/AIU San Diego campus.
• Group practice at outpatient level of care and fully remote telehealth psychotherapy. • Complete biopsychosocial and diagnostic assessment of patients at intake. • Coordinate care with staff psychiatrists, neuropsychologist, and sleep specialists. • Provide individual psychotherapy services to adults. • Specialize in the treatment of substance addiction, mood disorders, and trauma/PTSD. • Flexible and individualized use of evidenced-based interventions for individualized patient care that include CBT, ACT, DBT, IFS, SMART Recovery, and 12-Step Facilitation. • Develop continuing care discharge plans with patients at termination of treatment. • Provide weekly individual supervision to a postgraduate registered psychology associate.
• Female only substance addiction/mental health PHP/IOP treatment program. • Provide weekly individual supervision services for registered psychological associates.
• Group practice at outpatient level of care and primarily remote telehealth psychotherapy. • Complete biopsychosocial and diagnostic assessment of patients at intake. • Coordinate care with staff psychiatrists and neuropsychologists. • Provide individual and family therapy sessions to adults and adolescents. • Provided weekly individual supervision to postgraduate registered psychology associates. • Specialize in the treatment of substance addiction, mood disorders, and trauma/PTSD. • Flexible and individualized use of evidenced-based interventions for individualized patient care that include CBT, ACT, DBT, IFS, SMART Recovery, and 12-Step Facilitation. • Developed continuing care/discharge plans with patients at termination of treatment.