Post Graduate Fellowship at Cedar-Sinai                                                                                              2009

University of Southern California                                                                                                            2008
Master of Social Work, Concentration Mental Health
Los Angeles, CA

University of California, Davis                                                                                                                  2004
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology and Gender Studies
Davis, CA

Affiliations:
National Association for Social Workers, Member since 2006

Rachel has worked in mental health since 2005.  Beginning her career working in a group home with pregnant and parenting adolescents, and continuing continuing to graduate school working as an intern in an inpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation program and at Kaiser Permanente department of psychiatry as a MSW intern. After graduate school Rachel completed a post-graduate fellowship at Cedars Sinai focusing on practicing CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) in the inpatient, partial hospitalization and outpatient levels of care. Rachel has since worked in the school setting, hospital setting as a medical social worker, inpatient psychiatric social worker and as the manager of an intensive outpatient therapy program (IOP) since obtaining her professional license in 2013. Rachel has been in private practice since 2014.