Psychology Program Training Director, Chief Psychologist
OLGA TULLER Ph.D., 2002, Rosemead School of Psychology; APA-Accredited Pre-Doctoral internship: UCLA, Student Psychological Services
Special interests/expertise: Integration of attachment theory and neurobiological research into practice, projective tests, clinical supervision, supervision of supervision, multidisciplinary training, professional development, law and ethics; LGBT issues.
PSYCHOLOGISTS
MICHELLE HARRIMAN, Psy.D., 2003, California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco Bay; APA-Accredited Pre-Doctoral Internship: Central California Consortium-Visalia Youth Services, Visalia, CA; APPIC Accredited Post-Doctoral Psychology Fellowship: Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Special interests/expertise: Child abuse, sexual abuse, trauma-focused treatment interventions, sandplay, grief and loss, residential and community-based treatment.
KABRETTA KENNEDY, Ph.D., 1999 California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles; APA- Accredited Pre-Doctoral internship: Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Division of Adolescent Medicine
Special interests/expertise: Early childhood intervention, day treatment intensive services, foster care children and youth, working with children with trauma, domestic violence, ethnic based services, family based interventions, and community-based interventions.
MUDITA, BAHADUR, Ph.D., 1998 New York University; Predoctoral Internship: Saint John's Child and Family Development Center, APA- Accredited
Special interests/expertise: Early childhood intervention, day treatment intensive services.
DAVID NARANG, Ph.D., 2001, Kent State University. Pre-Doctoral Internship: Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine, APA accredited
Special interests/expertise: The healing power of building community. Development/enhancement of the parent-child attachment relationship. Child trauma and abuse. Depression and anxiety. Individual, family, and group treatment of school-aged children and teens. Gestalt individual and family therapy. Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Clinical supervision. Building teams of professionals.
ASHLEY NIEMEYER, PH.D., 2009, Idaho State University, APA-Accredited; Pre-Doctoral Internship: Saint John's Child and Family Development Center, APA-Accredited.
Special interests/expertise: risk and resilience in adolescent youth, assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders, increasing family involvement, family systems, evidence-based treatments.
MIGUEL FRAGUELA, Psy.D., 2009, University of Denver, APA-Accredited; Pre-Doctoral Internship: Saint John's Child and Family Development Center, APA-Accredited.
Special interests/expertise: adolescent mental health, culturally competent and effective mental health services for Latinos(as)/Hispanic and other minority populations, psychodiagnostic assessment.
ELAINE ITO, Ph.D., 1994, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; APA-Accredited Pre-doctoral internship: University of New Mexico School of Medicine Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Special interests/expertise: Assessment and intervention with young children. Early identification of at-risk children. Cognitive behavior therapy. Behavioral interventions and parent training. Depression and anxiety.
KATHERINE REUTER, Ph.D., 1973, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; APA-Accredited Post-doctoral internship: University of Maryland Medical Center, Dept. of Pediatrics, Baltimore, MD.
Special interests/expertise: Assessment and intervention with children ages 0-5 years. Early identification of at-risk children, including those at risk of child abuse and neglect. Program development; public policy and advocacy.
ADDITIONAL SUPERVISORS:
MAYRA MENDEZ, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., Certified Group Psychotherapist, Certified Supervisor for the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, 1994, California Graduate Institute Los Angeles.
Special interests/expertise: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and co-existing mental health issues. Infant/Preschool Mental Health Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, complex and multivariate mental health issues and community based trainings, collaborations and consultations.
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKERS
MICHELA ANDERSON, L.C.S.W., 1982, M.S.W., University of Southern California.
Special interests/expertise: Multidisciplinary intervention with young children and their families, parents with Personality Disorders, group process, supervision.
SHARON GREENE, L.C.S.W., 2000, M.S.W., University of California, Los Angeles.
Special interests/expertise: Structural family therapy, school-based mental health services, and crisis intervention.
ALLISON BRUNS MININSKY, L.C.S.W., 2002, M.S.W., San Diego State University.
Special interests/expertise: Home-based therapeutic services, child abuse, attachment-based interventions, art therapy, social skills groups for adolescents with Pervasive Developmental Disorder.
NOA SAADI, L.C.S.W., 2007, M.S.W University of California, Los Angeles
Special interests/expertise: School based mental health services, adolescent mental health, multi-systemic therapy.
PSYCHIATRISTS
THOMAS K. CIESLA, MD, 1961, State University of New York, Buffalo (SUNY). Medical Director, CFDC.
Special interests/expertise: dual diagnosis, mental health politics.
VAN DE GOLIA, MD, 1982, University of Cincinnati Medical School.
Special interests/expertise: Developmental considerations and psychopharmacology.
JASMINE MACKIC-MAGYAR, MD PhD, 1986, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Special interests/expertise: ADHD and mood disorders.
DONALD A. MELAND, MD, 1986, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison.
Special interests/expertise: ADHD, community-based child psychiatry.
BURTON ROGER, MD, 1962, Indiana University School of Medicine.
Special interests/expertise: Mood, psychotic disorders and psychosomatic illness.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
REBECCA REFUERZO, L.C.S.W., 1974, M.S.W., University of California, Berkeley.
Special interests/expertise: crisis intervention with children and families, cultural responsivity, administration.
Recipient - 2004 NASW Social Worker of the Year, State of California