CalPsychiatry Presents: Mindstories

Dr. Rabkin is a general psychiatrist, working with a variety of patients in her outpatient practice. While she specializes in medication management, she uses a multimodal approach with clients that draws upon psychotherapy, mindfulness work, Yoga psychology, and other integrative practices.

Dr. Rabkin obtained her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and cell biology from Rice University. She went on to earn her MD from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed her psychiatry residency training at the University of Southern California, where her training included women’s mental health, mood and anxiety disorders, cognitive behavior therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and psychiatric consultation for medically ill persons with mental health needs.

Passionate about the complex interplay between medical illness and mental health, Dr. Rabkin went on to complete specialty fellowship training in consult-liaison psychiatry at Stanford University. Her training included experience with psycho-oncology, transplant psychiatry, and psychosomatic medicine. She is currently undergoing yoga teacher certification training to further enhance her ability to provide holistic care for her clients.

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Leslie Davenport is a climate psychology educator and consultant who brings applied neuroscience into interdisciplinary dialogues that advance creative engagement with climate change issues. Leslie is a founding member of the Institute for Health & Healing, one of the nations’ first and largest hospital-based integrative medicine programs. Her 25 years of medical experience developing an empowering and collaborative approach to resolving crises has informed her climate psychology model.

She is the author of three books including Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change and she is completing a similar book for kids through the American Psychological Association's Magination Press. She helped shaped the document: “Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance.” Leslie is on faculty with the California Institute of Integral Studies and serves as an advisor with Project InsideOut.

Leslie Davenport

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Emotional Resilience Toolkit for Climate Work

Dr. Chang is a clinical psychologist who has been providing science-based psychological treatment in downtown Los Angeles since 2008. Using evidence-based treatments and a compassionate approach, she offers expertise based on a decade of experience at prestigious research-oriented psychology programs, including UCLA and NYU Child Study Center, with degrees from Princeton University and The University of Georgia. In addition to helping with stress, relationships, and problem-solving, Dr. Chang specializes in treating anxiety, mood disorders, and OCD as well as numerous co-occurring conditions.

She is the founder of Golden Hour Therapy, a group therapy practice in downtown Los Angeles, as well as Therapy Lab. Therapy Lab is an innovative therapy practice, offering science-based therapy on a straightforward timeline. They aim to support your mental health goals in a way that’s radically efficient, transparent and effective

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Golden Hour Therapy

Dr. David Sheski is a board-certified general psychiatrist who practices in CalPsychiatry’s Echo Park and Pasadena Offices, and uses a secure and private video communication platform for Telehealth visits.

He studied both psychology and film as an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, before going on to earn his MD from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, his home state. He completed his psychiatry training at the UCLA/Olive View Residency Program, and went on to finish subspecialty training by way of a fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine, in which he is also board certified.

Dr. Sheski offers medication management with a focus in the areas of general anxiety, phobias, panic disorder, and OCD. By way of his fellowship training, he also specializes in the treatment of both women and men in the peripartum period and patients with complex medical histories, including those with hematologic and solid organ transplants, cancer, auto-immune conditions, and neurological conditions.

An artist and a writer, he has a unique and special interest in the mental health of creatives, and the way in which the creative process can help patients heal past traumas, cope with current stressors, and actualize life goals.

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A licensed psychotherapist (MFT) with two M.A. degrees, Faith started seeing clients in her San Francisco Bay Area office in 2009, and has recently transitioned to a new Santa Barbara practice. Prior to pursuing her professional passion, Faith was an advertising writer at several San Francisco ad agencies. She has trained at the University of Texas in Austin as well as The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. She’s also the mother of 2 children and the published author of a personal development/spiritual book, as well as her recently published book, Starting Therapy: A Guide to Getting Ready, Feeling Informed, and Gaining the Most from Your Sessions. Her official credentials, as well as her life experience and street cred, give her a unique ability to understand and help you gain clarity, peace, and more of what you want in life. Her specialties include personal growth, creativity, love, spirituality, anxiety and EMDR.

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