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SDPA is a chapter of psychologists, students/post-docs, professionals, & friends committed to promoting psychology and serving mental health needs.

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09/08/2025

Join the SDPA Fall Conference on October 3rd, 2025 and learn from Sam Rodriguez as they speak about “From the Ranks to the Margins: Healing Trans Military Trauma.”

Sam Rodriguez (they/them) is a U.S. Navy veteran and California Associate Clinical Social Worker. With 10 years of service, including 8 years openly as a transgender, nonbinary service member, Sam has navigated two military bans, the second of which resulted in forced separations. They bring lived experience and advocacy leadership, including as Membership Director for SPARTA Pride.

In this CE session, psychologists will explore the trauma of forced discharge, gender marker reversal, and systemic discrimination, learning how to provide trauma-informed support for transgender and gender-diverse service members.

Questions to Spark Your Curiosity:
- What does it feel like to face forced separation due to being transgender?
- How can psychologists intervene when policy itself causes trauma?
- How can lived experience reshape care for transgender and gender-diverse service members?

Go to sdpsych.org to register today! Early bird ends September 12th.

09/20/2024

➡️ Join us for an insightful Workshop focused on best practices in multicultural clinical supervision with an emphasis on cultural humility and earn 6.0 CE Credits.
📅 Date/Time: Saturday, September 28, 2024 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Alliant International University - San Diego 10455 Pomerado Rd. (Zable Hall) San Diego, CA 92131
🍽️ Lunch will be served!
💡 Facilitator: Carol Falender, Ph.D.
💲 Cost:
* Members: $95
* Non-Members: $120
* Graduate Students: $50
* Graduate Students Non-Members: $65
👉 Register Now and reserve your spot - LINK IN BIO
For more information, contact: 📞 Diana Garza, Office Manager: (858) 277-1463 📧 Email: sdpa@sdpsych.org
This workshop will delve into the complexities of supervision competence, offering lectures, video reflections, and experiential exercises to help enhance your clinical supervision skills.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

09/09/2024

❗️This TUESDAY! Committee Meet & Greet Social! 🎉
Join us for an evening of fun and networking hosted by the Women’s Wellness Committee!

📅 Tuesday, September 10, 2024 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

📍 Karl Strauss Brewing Company 9675 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA 92121

🍴 Light appetizers provided Food & drinks available for purchase!

🤝 RSVP: Dr. Stamatia Daroglou 📧 drstamatiadaroglou@gmail.com

☝🏻This is a perfect opportunity for SDPA members and those interested in joining to meet the committee, socialize, and build connections. Everyone is welcome!

Co-Chairs: Lauren Woolley, Ph.D. Karen Lese-Fowler, Ph.D.

✨We can’t wait to see you there! 

08/13/2024

🌟 An Evening of Psychology Trivia 🌟

❗️Join SDPA & the Center for Integrative Psychology for a summer social on McDonald Hall’s patio. Enjoy an evening of socializing, delicious food, refreshing drinks, and a fun trivia competition.

🗓 Saturday, August 17, 2024 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

📍 Alliant Int’l Univ. (McDonald Hall Patio) 10455 Pomerado Rd, San Diego, CA

💵 COST:
* Members: $25
* Guests: $30
* Grad Students: $10
* Non-Members: $15

🥂 FOOD/DRINK:
* Beverages: Sparkling water, soda, iced tea, wine, beer
* Food: Appetizers, buffet dinner, dessert
🎟 REGISTER NOW - LINK IN BIO

☝🏻Event Highlights:
* Trivia Tournament with prizes
* Networking (submit your biosketch to be featured)
* Sponsorship opportunities available

🚗 Parking: Paved lot with ramp access or closer dirt lot with minimal stairs.

01/05/2023

✨ Happy New Year!

🔹Meet our new president Dr. Darlene R. Townes.

🔹 Dr. Townes is a licensed psychologist with over 12-years of professional experience and a myriad of life experiences including, a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserves. She has worked as a private school principal, administrator, church leader, military spouse and home-school mom of 6-children from birth to college. In 2010, after raising and preparing her children for college degrees, she returned to academia.

🔹Dr. Townes earned psychology degrees (Psy.D. and M.A.) from John F. Kennedy University in Northern California, graduating in 2016. Her pre-doctoral training was in Escondido, CA at Palomar Medical Center Behavioral Health In-patient Psychiatric, Geriatric and Acute Rehabilitation Units. Dr. Townes’ post-doctoral training was conducted in San Diego, CA under direct supervision providing psychotherapy services for HELP Therapist and Fraternity House, Inc., serving the HIV-AID population from 2017 through 2019. In addition, Dr. Townes worked as a Geriatric Specialist for Community Research Foundation and the County of San Diego. Her years of professional training focused on treating mood, anxiety, trauma, substance use and issues pertaining to health, women, LGBT, geriatric, and couple relationships.

🔹Dr. Townes joined the San Diego Psychological Association (SDPA) in 2016. She continues to serve on five committees: Continuing Education, Events, Science Fair, Fall Conference, Cultural Diversity. In 2017, she was the first African American person elected to serve on the Board. In 2018, she was elected as the Chair of the newly re-formed Cultural Diversity committee. Dr. Townes was re-elected to the Board for another 2-year term in 2019 and again in 2021. Dr. Townes’ other professional activities include an active member of the local chapter of the Association of Black Psychologist; and a member of the American Psychological Association for over 12-years.

➡️ Swipe right to learn more about Dr. Townes.

➡️ Join SDPA today - LINK IN BIO

12/27/2022

🔹 Be honest - We pick terrible times to address tough topics with our kids - at the moment! We know it, and yet we persist.

🔹Parental stress & anxiety causes us to rush really important parenting moments.

🔹The language and the tone of our communication have an immediate and direct impact on how our children and teens hear (or ignore) our messages.

🔹Parents are always seeking guidance on how to approach certain loaded topics with their teens, but in our latest podcast episode, Dr. Adria O'Donnell will show us that the WHEN may be just as important.

🔹Dr. Adria O’Donnell is a licensed clinical consulting psychologist, mother, and summer camp behavioral consultant.

🔹She brings 20 years of clinical experience and provides practical, direct tips as to how to improve your parenting skills.

➡️ To listen to the episode - click THE LINK IN BIO

12/26/2022

🚨 Job alert Monday!

🔹Position Open: Licensed Clinical Psychologists at
🔹Job Type: Part-time
 🔹Salary: $125.00 per hour

🔹Very busy medical group based in the Del Mar/Carmel Valley area of San Diego seeks 1 or 2 licensed psychologists to work in-person at our San Diego location as an independent contractor in a private practice setting.

🔹Ideal candidate will hold a valid, in good standing California license with the Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Psychology, professional and business liability insurance, and compliance with our documentation and credentialing paperwork.

🔹Psychologist should be prepared to see patients with a variety of diagnoses in an outpatient setting and conduct psychological evaluations and psychotherapy with adult patients that have suffered TBI and/or CTE due to being involved in personal injury accidents.

🔹Patients need to be seen in person. Looking for someone to come in 1 to 2 days a week, and we can compensate $125 an hour.

Patients would be scheduled for 1/2 hour therapy sessions by staff, we anticipate seeing about 8 patients in a five hour time frame.

🔹The employer offers space to conduct evaluations and therapy. Ideal candidate will be able to devote 3-6 hours twice a week to see patients that have been referred for psychotherapy in our clinic. Days to provide services will be mutually agreed upon between supervising psychiatrist and psychologist.

🔹To apply, please send your updated resume and cover letter to: Del Mar Brain & TMS at admin@delmarbrainandtms.com  

More psychology jobs - LINK IN BIO

12/21/2022

🔸 Last month the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it will establish a Vet Center (Readjustment Counseling Service) Scholarship Program to assist individuals pursuing graduate degrees in psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, or mental health counseling.

🔸 VA expects to award scholarships in the summer of 2023, providing funding to cover up to two years of graduate studies for individuals pursuing these degrees.

🔸 Upon completion of their degrees, these mental health professionals will then serve full time for a period of six years at one of VA’s 300 Vet Centers across the country, specifically, in underserved areas that need additional mental health professionals and in states with a per-capita population of more than 5% Veterans.

🔸Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services, including professional counseling to eligible Veterans, service members, including National Guard and Reserve components and their families.

🔸Vet Center counselors and outreach staff, many of whom are Veterans themselves, are experienced and prepared to discuss the tragedies of war, loss, grief and transition after trauma.

➡️ Learn more about Vet Centers and scholarship programs - LINK IN BIO

12/19/2022

🚨 Job alert Monday!

Father Joe’s Villages seeks a Licensed Clinical Psychologist to oversee the clinical and wrap-around services for unhoused children, adults, and families at its Therapeutic Childcare (TC) Program.

Responsibilities:

🔹As the Clinical Supervisor of TC, the Licensed Clinical Psychologist, provides therapeutic recommendations to TC employees for implementation in the classroom and serves as the subject-matter consultant for the TC team.
🔹Facilitates the internships of students and their caseloads.
🔹Provides direct clinical services including testing, psychotherapy, and psychoeducation to children of all ages, with a focus on child development.
🔹Uses expertise to deliver mental and behavioral health services to clients with mental health, behavioral challenges, and/or trauma histories, engaging those that are resistant to therapeutic services.
🔹Maintains a caseload of individual, group, couples, and family therapy clients, assessing, diagnosing, and developing treatment plans as needed.
🔹Provides or oversees parenting classes.
🔹Provides classroom observations.
🔹Provides agency-wide professional development in areas of mandated reporting, trauma-informed care, and other clinical areas.
🔹Facilitates students’ internships with partner universities. Oversees training; assigns tasks and monitors performance; provides feedback on interns’ evaluations.
🔹Partners with Father Joe’s Villages’ Behavioral Health clinic to facilitate clients’ service delivery; participate in peer meetings, attend trainings, and maintain licensing and credentialing.

➡️ To apply please email at Nancy.Restrepo-Wilson@neighbor.org

➡️ More psychology jobs - LINK IN BIO

12/14/2022

❓Did you know that there are many definitions and misconceptions about trauma?

🎙 Check out the Diving Into Healing Podcast episode, where our guest Alexandra Brown, the Founder of Thrive In Life Therapy , and the host Dr.Michelle Carcel discuss what trauma is and EMDR as a method of treatment for trauma focusing on the bottom-up approach.

➡️ Swipe right to learn more about Alexandra Brown.

➡️ Click the LINK IN BIO to listen to the episode.

12/09/2022

🔹Most people don't know much about the endocannabinoid system, which is very critical to every aspect of human functioning.

🔹It regulates and controls many of our most critical bodily functions, such as learning and memory, emotional processing, sleep, temperature control, pain control for people with chronic pain, inflammation, and even eating.

🎙In our podcast episode, “Role of the Endocannabinoid system in health and disease”, we will explore the endocannabinoid system's role in health and disease relating to mood, stress, resilience, pain processing, and sleep with our guest today, Dr. Michelle Sexton.

🔹She formally studied the endocannabinoid system for six years through her fellowship at the University of Washington and has continued her research into the health effects of cannabis at UCSD.

➡️ Swipe right to learn about Dr. Michelle Sexton

➡️ Click the LINK IN the BIO to listen to the episode

12/06/2022

🔹Richard J. Davidson (born December 12, 1951) is professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds and the affiliated non-profit Healthy Minds Innovations.

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Tuesday	9am - 3pm
Thursday	9am - 3pm
Friday	9am - 3pm

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