Our Providers

PhD

Crystal Jimenez

Dr. Crystal Jimenez (She/Her/Hers) is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in chronic pain management, behavioral medicine, adjustment to chronic health conditions and related life stressors. She has experience working with a wide range of mental health concerns, including generalized anxiety, depression, stress reduction, life transitions. Dr. Jimenez’s approach is culturally sensitive, evidence-based, and strengths-based, integrating CBT, mindfulness, and values-based interventions to help patients learn effective skills to increase connection, change, and empowerment in their lives.

Dr. Jimenez enjoys working with adults and currently sees patients in San Francisco and via telemedicine across the state of California.

Dr. Jimenez completed her postdoctoral fellowship with a specialty in chronic pain at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and her predoctoral internship at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. She received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology-Palo Alto University.

PhD, Site Leader & Clinical Supervisor

Mandy Mount

Dr. Mandy Mount (she/they) is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in sexual trauma, PTSD, mindfulness, grief and loss, LGBTQIA issues, life transitions, holistic healing approaches and neurobiology. Her approach is compassionate, collaborative, culturally aware and trauma-informed. Through a holistic, integrative framework, she collaborates with her clients to set goals and clarify pathways to achieving wellness of mind, body, and spirit. Dr. Mount seeks to create a safe environment to explore how identity, personal strengths, experiences, and obstacles may influence responses to difficult emotions and events. She is dedicated to supporting clients on their journeys through developing customized approaches based on each person’s unique needs, values and preferences.

Dr. Mount sees individuals, couples, and families in Beverly Hills and via telemedicine across the state of California.

Dr. Mount received her doctorate at the University of Maryland and completed an APA-accredited internship at the University of California, Irvine. In 2005, Dr. Mount established a multidisciplinary center at the University of California, Irvine, dedicated to preventing interpersonal violence and creating opportunities for survivors to access care and advocacy. While acting as Director of this office over 17 years, she maintained a private practice, served as an expert consultant and trainer, and spoke frequently at local and national conferences. She continues to engage in work as a consultant, expert witness and trainer for campuses, health professionals, and organizations.

PsyD, Post Doctoral Fellow

Melinda Wong

Dr. Melinda Wong (she/her) is a postdoctoral fellow offering couples and sex therapy as well as individual treatment for mood disorders. She integrates aspects from a wide range of evidence-based therapy approaches to suit each individual’s treatment needs. She has worked in diverse clinical settings in the Bay Area, including community mental health, college counseling, and multidisciplinary hospital systems, and has experience working with a variety of presenting concerns, including depression, anxiety, imposter syndrome, relational issues, perinatal mood disorders, and LGBTQ+ related issues.

Dr. Wong works with individual adults and couples in San Jose, as well as via telehealth across the state of California. Her approach emphasizes client collaboration and building rapport through authenticity, humor, and some degree of irreverence.

Dr. Wong completed her predoctoral internship in Adult Behavioral Medicine at Kaiser Oakland and received her doctoral degree from the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium at Palo Alto University. Her dissertation developed a trauma-focused CBT manual to prevent symptoms of posttraumatic stress in couples who receive a prenatal diagnosis. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

PsyD, Post Doctoral Fellow

Sam Wessels

Dr. Sam Wessels (he/him) is a postdoctoral fellow offering individual and couples therapy. Some of his clinical interests include anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship conflict, non-monogamy, body image, trauma, creative/artistic blocks, careers, and substance misuse. Through his work with diverse populations, he has an awareness and dedication to integrating identity and culture with treatment.

He uses a relational, psychodynamic lens integrated with Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to create an open, safe, and authentic space where individuals and couples can get curious about who they are and why they feel the way they feel. This deeper understanding of self can help generate new ways of thinking and acting towards self and others. The interplay between deeper understanding and new choices is what can ultimately lead to change, helping to get unstuck and grow towards a more fulfilling and sustainable life or partnership.

Dr. Wessels enjoys working with adolescents and adults across the lifespan in person in San Francisco, or via telehealth through California. Being queer-identified, he has a particular interest in working with LGBTQ+ identified clients, including providing gender-affirming care.

PsyD

Stephanie Porras

Dr. Porras is a licensed clinical psychologist with a doctorate degree from Pacific University, Oregon in clinical psychology with an emphasis on health psychology. She enjoys working with adolescent and adult clients on a range of concerns including anxiety, depression, complex trauma, ADHD, interpersonal relationships, and eating disorders. She is passionate about addressing issues such as binge eating, emotional eating, and body image from a body inclusive, Health At Every Size informed approach. Because of her health psychology background, she is highly attentive to the complexities of the mind-body connection, such as the impact of stress on physical health or the impact of ongoing medical conditions on emotional well-being. She primarily practices from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework, bringing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and somatic techniques as needed to provide truly individualized treatment. Dr. Porras’ approach is based on creating an authentic therapeutic relationship in which individuals feel the safety they need to fully show up as themselves and to cultivate the kind of self-awareness, radical acceptance, and self-compassion that leads to true change.

PhD, Post Doctoral Fellow

Xiao Ting (Kitty) Wang

Dr. Xiao Ting (Kitty) Wang (she/her) is a postdoctoral fellow offering individual therapy for adults in Beverly Hills and across California via telehealth. She has clinical interests in depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, phase-of-life transitions, trauma, grief and loss, disordered eating, and career counseling. Dr. Wang has extensive experience working in diverse clinical settings, including college counseling centers, community mental health clinics, group private practices, and VA systems. She also enjoys working with LGBTQ+ identified clients, international students, and has experience providing therapy in Mandarin Chinese.

Dr. Wang uses an integrative and multiculturally sensitive approach to therapy, drawing from psychodynamic, client-centered, cognitive behavioral (CBT), and dialectical behavioral (DBT) therapies. She blends insight-oriented work, skill-building, and emotional support to help clients better understand themselves and navigate challenges. By examining past experiences, she helps clients identify patterns that may be influencing their present, empowering them to make meaningful changes and move forward. She values collaboration and strives to create a trusting and supportive therapeutic space. In addition to addressing diagnoses, Dr. Wang believes therapy can be a valuable space for exploring and managing life’s everyday stressors, offering clients a chance to grow and build resilience.

Dr. Wang completed her predoctoral internship at the University of California, Los Angeles’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). She earned her doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York and received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Social Behaviors from the University of California, Irvine.