Our Experts
Each Center clinician is well versed in counseling on a broad range of issues pertaining to women’s mental health. Each therapist has a unique expertise within women’s health including eating disorders, infertility, domestic violence and others. We also offer medication consultation and management with our board certified female psychiatrist.
If you are unsure of which clinician would be the best fit for your needs, please contact our Client Coordinator Susannah Kondrath through our Contact Us form or call her at 323.369.0755 x10 so she can learn more about your situation and assist you in finding the right therapist.
Jessica LeRoy, MA, MFT
Founder, Executive Director and Psychotherapist. I have a passion for women’s issues and rights. I specialize in working with women who have experienced trauma in many forms, including domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault. As Clinical Director, I hire and train our talented experts to assist women to embrace life on their own terms. I am very fortunate and proud to work with such a diverse group of inspiring and strong women.
Read On...Dylan Berkey, MA, MFT
Clinical Director and Psychotherapist. My strengths are in working with individuals and couples toward the goal of discovering how to access and express our deepest selves and form meaningful connections. I specialize in addiction and recovery, trauma, body image issues, and transitioning from adolescence into adulthood. I am committed to celebrating LGBTQ and gender variant people and communities and have a particular interest in working with gender variant individuals and their loved ones. I use psychoanalytic theory as well as narrative techniques in making links between subject and culture/subculture, always challenging gender stereotypes that keep us limited.
Read On...Dr. Lilit Pogosian, MD
Psychiatrist, and Psychopharmacologist. I provide medication consultations, diagnostic evaluations, and medication management. I have a special interest and expertise in women’s mental health, managing illness that can be affected by menses, pregnancy, and menopause. I also focus on treatment of women during times of transition in their lives, both hormonally mediated or non-hormonal in origin. My work is tailored to each individual patient and I strive to meet their personalized needs.
Read On...Tiffaney Hale, MA, MFT
Psychotherapist. I am a Marriage and Family Therapist who works with a wide range of clients. Throughout my professional life, I’ve focused on helping people who have identity-related issues, including those of gender, sexual orientation, class, and new parenthood. More recently, I’ve also dealt with clients who have a history of traumatic or transitional experiences. I work with both individuals and couples, and have worked extensively in GLBTQ communities and with non-traditional couples and families.
Read On...Zoe Gillis, Psychotherapist Intern
Psychotherapist Intern. My goal is to create a space that feels safe and honest where women can discover their own process through tears, humor, joy or whatever else may come up. There is so much to navigate in life; relationships, work, family, and trying to a find balance within these things. So often I see women who beat themselves up, feel bad, and then judge themselves for feeling bad. I help my clients stop that cycle through awareness and self-examination. I work holistically using mind and body techniques to help integrate the awareness. I believe by connecting to our true emotions we can move more easily through whatever challenges life throws our way.
Read On...Lucy E. Marrero, Psychotherapist Intern
Psychotherapist Intern. I am a Marriage and Family Therapy Intern strongly influenced by narrative and liberation psychology, and I hold a strong commitment to socially just/culturally curious practices. I work with people who face a wide range of problems to deconstruct and demystify unhelpful discourses and to uncover hidden stories of complex humanity, strength, and resilience. Social problems such as discrimination and violence against women, people of color, and people who are gender-variant work together with problems such as difficulty concentrating, paralyzing anxiety, and depression to try to convince us that fulfilling, meaningful lives are out of reach. But my experience is that we can grow and thrive, even while we’re struggling with very real, very difficult problems.
Read On...Celine Elise Alvarez, Psychotherapist Intern
Psychotherapist Intern. I enjoy working with clients to explore the roles they play in their own lives, and utilize my training as an art therapist to facilitate my work. My areas of experience include addiction and recovery, trauma, body image, domestic violence, acculturation issues and identity. I have a special interest in helping LGBT individuals and couples in coming out and building more meaningful and open lives. I work from a feminist narrative therapy lens, which challenges the dominant culture and allows clients to develop their own meaning and story of their life.
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