Our Providers

PhD

Hilit Kletter

Dr. Hilit Kletter is an expert in child and adolescent psychology with over 15 years of experience in treating a wide range of traumas as well as providing supervision in trauma informed interventions to trainees of all levels. Prior to joining The Clinic, Dr. Kletter was a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford where she directed the Stress and Resilience Clinic. She has worked in a variety of settings such as community mental health, day-treatment programs, schools, a domestic violence shelter, and outpatient clinics. She was part of the development team for Cue-Centered Therapy (CCT), an intervention for youth with complex trauma.

Dr. Kletter designed the CCT training program and was the CCT training program director. She continues to be a master trainer and lead consultant in the program. She provides teaching and training both nationally and internationally. Dr. Kletter received her BA in anthropology from the University of Washington and was a Koret Foundation Fellow while completing her PhD studies at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Child and Family Guidance Center in Northridge, CA and her post-doctoral fellowship at Kaiser Permanente Child Psychiatry in Milpitas, CA.

PhD, Associate Clinical Director & Clinical Supervisor

Josh Thomas

Dr. Josh Thomas is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in substance addiction, dual diagnosis, depression, anxiety, trauma, work-related stress, intimate partner and interpersonal relationship conflicts, and chronic pain. With an emphasis in clarifying and living from personal values, his approach is highly compassionate, culturally sensitive, strengths-based, and evidenced-based. He integrates CBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based interventions to help individuals with uncovering, discovering, and discarding thinking and behavioral patterns that are blocking them from living enriched and empowered lives. He also practices internal family systems (IFS) therapy to support individuals with healing from posttraumatic experiences.

Dr. Thomas has worked at all levels of care for the treatment of severe substance addictions that include acute detox, residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient. He is a former clinical director of a highly regarded dual diagnosis treatment center in San Diego. He has published research in the areas of alcohol addiction and neuropsychological functioning and CBT treatment-effectiveness for depression in late-life. He has also consulted with innovative tech companies to integrate mindfulness-based CBT, biofeedback, and telemedicine for the treatment of depression.

Dr. Thomas enjoys working with adolescents and adults and he currently sees patients via video-medicine across the State of California. In addition to his clinical practice, he provides clinical supervision services at several treatment centers in San Diego that focus on substance addiction recovery.