My Practice
My Treatment Focus
My Treatment Focus
My Santa Monica based practice offers customized, personalized psychological services to adults of all ages who are experiencing mood disorders, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, trauma, insomnia, relationship concerns, or other struggles that are interfering in their ability to feel fully alive and satisfied. My focus is on providi
My Santa Monica based practice offers customized, personalized psychological services to adults of all ages who are experiencing mood disorders, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, trauma, insomnia, relationship concerns, or other struggles that are interfering in their ability to feel fully alive and satisfied. My focus is on providing weekly, in-person individual therapy, skills practice, and exposure-based interventions. My registered psychological associate, Leticia Berg, MA LLP, is now available to serve clients who may be in need of sliding scale services. Please click here for more information about this option:
My Treatment Focus
My Treatment Focus
My Treatment Focus
I integrate behavioral, acceptance-based, and relational approaches as I develop a custom treatment approach in collaboration with you. I believe in co-creating the therapy experience rather than "delivering" it. Each person is unique and each therapy will be developed creatively, while hewing to the evidence based foundations of the fiel
I integrate behavioral, acceptance-based, and relational approaches as I develop a custom treatment approach in collaboration with you. I believe in co-creating the therapy experience rather than "delivering" it. Each person is unique and each therapy will be developed creatively, while hewing to the evidence based foundations of the field. My approach also tends to de-emphasize technology, so that I can be fully present with you and minimize distractions.
About Me
My Treatment Focus
About Me
I earned my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008, after first completing a Bachelor's Degree at Pomona College. My training includes an APA accredited internship at Albany Medical College and a postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. I served in leadership and clinical
I earned my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008, after first completing a Bachelor's Degree at Pomona College. My training includes an APA accredited internship at Albany Medical College and a postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. I served in leadership and clinical roles at VA Palo Alto from 2009-2015, before transitioning to roles at UCLA in 2015, including serving as a psychologist at UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services from 2015-2020, Assistant Clinical Professor for the UCLA Psychology Department from 2018-2021, and Psychologist at the UCLA OCD Intensive Outpatient Program from 2020-2024. My professional experience includes training psychiatry residents at Stanford University as well as supervising psychology graduate students at the VA and at UCLA.
About Leticia Berg, MA LLP:
Ms. Berg is a registered psychological associate currently providing in-person and virtual therapy sessions in the California office of Dr. Kristen McDonald, PhD. Her clinical specialties are the treatment of OCD, trauma, and anxiety-based disorders.
Although she started full-time work as a psychotherapist in private practice in 2019, she has been practicing intermittently as a personal development counselor since 2009.
She earned her first Master’s Degree in humanistic psychology at the Michigan School of Psychology in Farmington Hills, Michigan and her second Master’s Degree in clinical psychology at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California, where she is also a doctoral candidate in Applied Psychological Science.
Her doctoral research focuses on Black women, COVID-era trauma disclosure, and race-based traumatic stressors.
She specializes in OCD spectrum and anxiety disorders, and she has a wide array of clinical experiences within the UCLA Health System, residential treatment, and community mental health centers. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical and research training at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She first served as an Emergency Medical Research Associate (EMRA), screening patients for enrollment in clinical trials and observational studies.
At Semel Institute, she provided behavioral therapy for patients with moderate to severe OCD in the Adult Intensive Outpatient Program. In the Department of Psychiatry's sleep medicine clinic, she provided patients with psychoeducation and didactic presentations on cognitive behavioral treatment approaches for insomnia.
Additionally, she has worked as a crisis counselor at Stuart House, a treatment center for teen and adult survivors of sexual assault at Santa Monica Hospital.
To schedule a free 15 minute consultation phone call with Leticia Berg, please click here: https://therapyfinder.com/therapist/leticia-berg-ma-llp-masters-psychologist-in-the-office-of-santa-monica-ca