CalPsychiatry Presents: Mindstories

Dr. Colleen Long is a licensed psychologist and innovative entrepreneur, known for her ownership of Boston Psychological Testing Associates and Clarity California Psychological Testing. Her practices are lauded for their groundbreaking approach to psychological testing, which serves as a diagnostic cornerstone before initiating medications and therapy. Currently, she is expanding her impact through the Elevated Practice, a consulting model that empowers healthcare providers to optimize their operations using AI and other technologies. Dr. Long champions the idea that psychological testing is akin to an "X-ray" before the "surgery" that is the therapy. Her testing provides invaluable insights, ensuring that subsequent therapeutic and pharmacological interventions are precisely targeted.

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Landis Bejar is a New York State Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional counselor in the state of Georgia. Landis earned Masters degrees in Counseling Psychology and Mental Health Counseling from Columbia University. In 2018, Landis founded AisleTalk: Consultation & Therapy, a New York-based therapy and coaching practice devoted to supporting clients who find themselves stressed out as they plan their wedding – a time in life which seems glamorous and euphoric on the outside, but can actually bring up very real stress, mood changes, anxiety, and relationship/family strain for so many. For her innovative work in this area, Landis has been quoted as an expert source in numerous media publications, including TIME magazine, The New York Times, BRIDES, Bustle, Vox, The New York Post, and several others. Landis has also served as a mental health and relationship expert on the BRIDES media review board. She now manages AisleTalk remotely from Atlanta, Georgia, where she lives with her husband and two boys.

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Wedding Planning Therapy | AisleTalk

"The Conscious Bride", Sheryl Paul and Sheryl Nissinen

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Victoria Buttery, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice based in San Diego. She specializes in treating PTSD and trauma-related distress using evidence-based approaches, and integrating a client's faith into the healing process. She was previously a staff psychologist at VA San Diego Healthcare System, served as the facility's PTSD Director, and held a faculty appointment at UCSD. She has trained and supervised many psychology interns and residents, given talks locally and nationally, and helped clinics implement national guidelines and best practices for providing quality, evidence-based PTSD treatment.

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The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk M.D. 

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Sarah Lopano is the COO and Executive Clinical Director of Cognition Builders, an educational company that provides individualized, immersive, in-home support. She has an M.Ed in Child Studies from Vanderbilt University and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She has been published in several articles and has worked in the clinic, home, and hospital settings to provide behavioral support. At Cognition Builders, in collaboration with a clients treatment providers, Sarah applies her knowledge of the science of behavior to bring a behavioral approach to the practical challenges of families within their day to day lives.

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Dr. Kinasz uses various treatment tools including psychotherapy, psychoeducation, parent and family interventions, and medications to help an individual achieve their personalized goals in treatment. 

Dr. Kinasz carefully listens to a person's unique story and uses an evidenced-based approach to address their individualized needs. Her child and adolescent fellowship training helps her to explore her patients through a lens that considers biological, psychological, and environmental factors that contribute to their symptoms. She believes in addressing the family system in treatment so that the individual and, when applicable, the entire family can achieve psychological healing and growth.

Dr Kinasz received her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of medicine, trained at UCSF for her general adult psychiatry residency and completed her fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford University. She is currently practicing out of CalPsychiatry’s Menlo Park office and over Telehealth.

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Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)

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Dr. Kinasz is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of psychiatric illness that impact children and adolescents including but not limited to mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, and eating disorders. She also sees children struggling with behavioral issues at home or at school and adolescents exploring their gender identity.

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National Eating Disorders Association

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Laurel Roberts-Meese is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, Pennsylvania, and Florida, and is the founder and clinical director of Laurel Therapy Collective. Laurel Therapy Collective specializes in helping driven professionals decrease anxiety and trauma symptoms, handle burnout, and build more fulfilling relationships. Therapists at Laurel Therapy Collective have a particular passion for working with the LGBT community, especially doing couples' work.

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Zach's practice often focuses on work with individuals navigating their 20's-30's, male psychology, and anyone looking to explore identity. He believes that the foundation of his work with clients in therapy is based in offering them a relationship in which they can feel genuinely safe to trust that they can be seen and understood. He has worked in a variety of clinical settings and with diverse client populations which has highlighted his strength in his humanistic, relational approach toward inviting clients into the healing work that awaits them. He is often working from a psychodynamic and feminist lens to conceptualize and hold space for the “whole person” and their various intersectional identities, but usually tends to bring the work back to the here and now, through a warm, yet direct approach, as he and his client move toward further insight and mindfulness.

Zach has a passion for working with clients exploring their values and identity as they learn how to engage life in the most congruent way for them. This is often what comes up in his work with navigating 20's and 30's and at times even more specifically with his work with men as we explore intimacy, masculinity, and self-esteem. He is also passionate about his work with attachment and relationships, inner-child processing, as well as understanding family system dynamics and role expectations.

Through therapy and our therapeutic relationship, it is his hope that clients will build insight and skills around how to engage themselves with more acceptance and compassion.

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Alexandra Katehakis, Ph.D., LMFT is Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, faculty for the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals, and the recipient of the 2018 WAAT Smart Award, the IITAP Leadership, and the 2012 SASH Carnes Award. She is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist/Supervisor and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist/Supervisor specializing in the treatment of sexual addiction and other sexual disorders.

Dr. Katehakis is the author of What Turns You On? A Guide to Living Your Best Sex Life (2022), Sexual Reflections: A Workbook for Designing and Celebrating Your Sexual Health Plan (2018), Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment (2016), co-author of the 2015 AASECT award winning Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence (2014), contributing author to the Clark Vincent award winning Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts, in M. Feree (Ed.) (2012), and author of Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex After Recovery From Sex Addiction (2010). 

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Rebekah Tayebi has been a therapist and parent coach for over eighteen years. Throughout her career, she has supported families, individuals, and teens. She loves the authentic connection she gets to build with clients as they heal from trauma, family of origin wounds, and manage daily life stressors. Rebekah enjoys bringing humor and spiritual perspectives into the work with clients and feels grateful to get to do this work.

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"Parallel Process" - Krissy Pozatek

"The Conscious Parent" - Dr. Shefali Tsabary

"The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers" - Gary Chapman

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