Juanita Dimas

Dr. Juanita Dimas is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in California. Her clinical experience includes working with adults and adolescents facing a range of mental health and health conditions, including trauma, depression, anxiety, immigration and other life transitions, identity issues, psycho-socio-cultural stress, as well as psychiatric emergency, and in-patient psychiatry. Dr. Dimas is adroit at matching therapy orientation to client needs, drawing upon her training in several different theoretical orientations and techniques. She works collaboratively with physicians, other health care providers, social services, schools, and other community resources as needed to address the impact of psychosocial issues in the various areas of each client's life.

Dr. Dimas received her doctorate from the University of California – Berkeley in 1995, has been licensed as a psychologist in the State of California since 1999, and completed a 2-year clinical internship and postdoc at the University of California – San Francisco. Dr. Dimas has worked in the full spectrum of practice from research to implementation, including psychotherapy, teaching, program development, consulting, and supervision, at the individual, family, academic, organizational and community levels.

Dr. Dimas’s professional presentations and publications have focused on culture and health/mental health, health disparities, minority status stress, and multiracial issues