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Meet The Team

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Dr. Zandi
Christina Zandi
Vanessa Patterson

Vanessa Patterson,
LMFT

Danielle Roxborough

Christina Zandi
LMFT

Morgan Sheldon
Jamie Foster
Wesley Walters
Christina
Christina Zandi

Christina Zandi, M.A., LMFT

 

Christina Zandi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been in private practice since 2010 and working in the mental health field since 2005. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from Biola University and her Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology with a Child and Family emphasis from Chapman University. She sees individuals, couples, families and adolescents in her practice. Her specialties include treating eating disorders from a body positive perspective, depression, anxiety, personal growth and identity, codependency issues, relationship issues and trauma. In addition to private practice, Christina provides clinical supervision and training to Associate and Trainee MFT’s as well as serves as the Membership Chair on the Orange County Chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP). She has worked in all levels of care in eating disorder recovery as well as substance abuse recovery. She has experience providing mental health services and program management within the education system and Department of Mental Health agencies working with a wide range of emotional disturbances. She is an insight oriented therapist who draws from psychodynamic, humanistic and attachment frameworks to help clients dig deep into themselves and their history to find the answers they need to live a more authentic, fulfilling life. 

Dr. Zandi
Ali

Ali Zandi PsyD, LMFT

 

Ali is a dual Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Marriage & Family Therapist. Ali provides psychological testing and evaluations. He specializes in the assessment of child and adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity  Disorder (ADHD), adult Autism Spectrum Disorder, Learning Disorders, and general psychological evaluations. 

Ali earned his Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University. He also earned a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Chapman University. Ali has nearly two decades of experience providing counseling and assessment services. In addition to clinical work, Ali has held leadership and administrative roles in behavioral health agencies. Additionally, Ali has provided numerous trainings and talks on behavioral health-related topics. 

Vanessa
Vanessa Patterson

Vanessa Patterson, M.A., LMFT
 

Vanessa Patterson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been treating clients since 2005. Vanessa immensely enjoys building relationships with and working with her clients and has had her own private practice since 2010. Concurrently she spent 10 years working in a community mental health agency providing treatment to low income families, working in conjunction with the Department of Mental Health and various local school districts, and running the agencies two largest programs. Vanessa also provides mentorship and supervision to new therapists on their journey to licensure. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from Biola University and her Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology with a Child and Family emphasis from Chapman University.

 

Vanessa sees individuals, couples, families, adolescents, and children in her practice. One of her specialties is working with parents of children ages 0-5 and helping them navigate these wonderful but challenging years as well as treating perinatal and post-partum anxiety and/or depression that so often accompanies the early years of motherhood. She is certified in PCIT (Parent/Child Interaction Therapy) and works closely with parents of preschool and elementary age children drawing from the latest neuroscience related to a child's developing brain. Vanessa is a nationally certified cognitive behavioral therapist specializing in the treatment of trauma, anxiety, depression, grief/loss, life transitions and relationship difficulties. She also draws heavily from psychodynamic, attachment, and narrative frameworks to help her clients achieve their treatment goals.

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Morgan Sheldon

Morgan Sheldon, MS, EMDR, LMFT

Morgan Sheldon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has worked in treatment and recovery settings for over fifteen years at all levels of care. She obtained her Masters of Science in Mental Health Counseling with emphases in Marriage and Family Therapy and Professional Clinical Counseling from California State University, Fullerton, and her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Social Behavior with an emphasis in psycholinguistics from the University of California, Irvine. She is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and is able to offer this service both virtually and in-person.
Morgan has a particular passion for serving those whose stories are overlooked--those in Fat, racially oppressed, disabled, neurodivergent, and genderqueer bodies and brains seeking safety in the same bodies that hold their traumas. She approaches therapy from a feminist and person-centered foundation and integrates tools from narrative and Gestalt therapy, EMDR and mindfulness, and DBT, CBT, and ACT. In the room, she often uses humor, storytelling/fandom, metaphor, and somatic experiencing to deepen insights and loves to integrate the special interests of her clients as well!

Danielle Roxborough
Danielle

Danielle Roxborough is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who is passionate about helping individuals, couples, children and families through a creative and compassionate lens. Danielle completed her Bachelor’s of Art at the University of Oregon in Photography and Allied Arts, and gained her Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy with Art Therapy at Antioch University Seattle. Danielle is passionate about communication through creative expression, and has utilized her Art Therapy training in a range of clinical settings working with children, adolescents, families, couples and individuals. Danielle completed a year of Art Therapy research in her Master’s program analyzing and measuring the benefits of self-care through therapeutic creative expression.  Danielle has worked in non-profit organizations as well as community mental health treatment centers providing individual, couples, and family therapy to clients struggling with substance abuse, co-dependency, eating disorders, body-image issues, anxiety, depression, and trauma.   
   Danielle believes in meeting each unique individual where they are at by incorporating a variety of relevant therapeutic modalities into her practice including: humanistic, attachment-based therapy, emotionally focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and dialectical behavioral therapy as well as creative arts therapies. Danielle believes that empathy and active listening are key principles that help her clients to feel heard, seen, and safe.

Wesley
Wesley Walters

Wesley Walters is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who earned his bachelor’s degree in psychological science, while spending three years doing independent research in applied social psychology. He received his master’s degree in counseling psychology from California State University East Bay, with an emphasis in both Marriage and Family Therapy and Professional Clinical Counseling. Wesley completed his training in a county partial hospitalization program, where he offered both individual and group therapy to adults suffering from PTSD, treatment resistant depression, chronic psychosis, and substance abuse disorders. He also has experience working in an inpatient psychiatric hospital with children and teens suffering from ADHD, ASD, PTSD, psychosis, self-harm, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders.
Wesley works individually with teens and adults using an integrative strength-based approach, tailored to the specific needs of his clients. His interventions are based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), mindfulness, existential therapy, narrative therapy, internal family systems, and psychodynamic therapy. His primary goal in his practice is to work alongside clients to help them develop a deeper sense of agency and mastery over their own lives.

Jamie
Jamie Foster

Jamie Foster is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with a passion for helping people from all walks of life find new ways of thriving in a complicated world. Jamie completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology through Long Beach State University, and later achieved her Masters of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Chapman University. Throughout her education, Jamie was able to train in both in-person and virtual mental health services and address a variety of life and personal challenges.
 
Jamie’s education and training has given her experience working with a variety of groups and challenges. Jamie works with individuals ranging from adolescents to adults as well as families with a focus on creating a better functioning system for each person to thrive in. Jamie has vast experience working with anxiety and stress, depression, self-esteem, ADHD, life transitions and challenges, and communication and problem-solving difficulties. Jamie has an interest in working with student-athletes and families to help with the ups and downs of athletics, stress, and anxiety around athletics, post-injury care, and moving on from athletics and into new stages of life.
 
Jamie’s therapy style is person-centered, focused on meeting each client as a person first to tailor their therapy experience to their personal needs and interests. Jamie uses a unique combination of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and emotionally focused/attachment therapy (EFT) to create a holistic look at the client’s current functioning and address the past and the present to create a new, brighter future for the client. Jamie’s focus on empathy and nonjudgement can hopefully allow clients from all walks of life to feel safe and heard in the therapy space.

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