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Greetings! I’m Dr. Kiana Jannesari, a licensed psychologist in Southern California. I specialize in psychological assessment, and my goal is to help you better understand yourself through a thoughtful, comprehensive, and collaborative evaluation process. I believe that through self understanding, you can strengthen your relationships with others and your appreciation for yourself.

Hi, I am Jamie, a licensed psychologist based in Los Angeles, California. With over 20 years of experience in the mental health field, my clinical background spans comprehensive psychological assessment, psychotherapy for adolescents and adults, clinical supervision, and organizational training and consultation. My approach is client-centered and neurodiversity-affirming. I view our work as a collaborative partnership where your personal values serve as our compass.

Hello and welcome! Thank you for being here, and I look forward to working with you. I'm Dr. Eric Samuels, a clinical psychologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area and licensed in California and New York. I am passionate about supporting individuals on their journey toward greater understanding of themselves, which can bring about improved mental health and wellness. If we work together, you will see that I strive to create a safe and compassionate space where you will feel heard, valued, and understood. I believe that you and I having a warm, empathic connection is required for meaningful progress, but you will also find me to be straightforward and unafraid to challenge you. I look forward to connecting and working with you.

Hello and welcome! I'm Dr. Nicole Grinsell, a licensed clinical psychologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area and licensed in California. I'm passionate about psychological assessment because, at its best, it can offer more than a diagnosis — it can give people a clearer and more compassionate framework for understanding themselves.My clinical approach is thoughtful, collaborative, and grounded in curiosity about the whole person. I'm particularly interested in the ways people learn to adapt, compensate, or mask over time, and how these patterns can sometimes make neurodivergence more difficult to recognize. I bring careful attention to each person's developmental history, lived experience, strengths, and challenges rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all picture of what autism or neurodivergence "should" look like.I believe a meaningful assessment helps you feel not only accurately understood, but empowered with greater clarity about how your mind works and language for experiences that may have been difficult to make sense of before. My goal is to create an evaluation experience that feels warm, respectful, and clinically rigorous — and ultimately helps you understand yourself with greater confidence and self-trust.

For over 20 years, I have completed psychological evaluations, provided individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy and DBT to clients in outpatient, inpatient and residential treatment settings. I supervised and trained student and staff therapists.I believe that helping people to understand themselves fully and working through the challenges and life events which influences their functioning is the overall goal of treatment. I am truly blessed and honored to able to work with people to help them improve their lives.