Dr. Daryn Reicherter created and directs our Integrated Behavioral Health Services program.  He also directs Mental Health Services for Palo Alto’s Opportunity Health Center.

Dr. Reicherter is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Stanford University, School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. He provides a combination of administrative and clinical services in the area of “cross-cultural” trauma mental health. He is the Director of Cross Cultural Psychiatry at the Gardner Mental Health Care Clinic, the Senior Psychiatrist at the Eastern European Service Agency, and a Consulting Psychiatrist at the Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture, Asian Americans for Community Involvement.  He Chairs the Board of Directors for Survivors International. He has served as consultant to the Documentation Center of Cambodia. He is on the Advisory Council for the Khmer Krom Federation.  Dr. Reicherter completed his medical training at New York Medical College and served as Chief Resident at Stanford University Hospitals and Clinics. He received his undergraduate degree at UC Santa Cruz.

Dr. Carrion is an Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Stanford Early Life Stress Research Program. He is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Traumatic Stress.  He completed his medical training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, his residency at University of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in Child Psychiatry and Research at Stanford University. Since joining the faculty at Stanford, Dr. Carrion’s research has concentrated on early life stress due to traumatic experiences and how this can alter behavior and emotion and the role of brain structure and function in these findings. He is also interested in the development of new treatment modalities. He has received awards from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the National Institute of Mental Health.

Dr. Lopez received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA in 1992, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in 1993.  While Dr. Lopez has over 14 years experience working with a general psychiatric population, he has expertise working with the following clinical populations:  working with Spanish-speaking psychiatric populations; the assessment and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders and ADHD; and the assessment and treatment of children in foster care settings.  At Ravenswood Family Health Center Dr. Lopez will provide short-term counseling to individual, families, children, adults and adolescents.

Miriam Maldavsky is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker experience in providing services to high-risk individuals, families and groups with serious mental illness and socio-economic challenges, including juvenile dependency and sexual abuse cases. She has worked in the Bay Area for close to a decade, serving the needs of various populations. Sheholds a Licenciatura en Psicologia from Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina and a Masters of Social Work degree from San Jose State University. Prior to joining RFHC, Miriam served as a Program Supervisor at Gardner Family Care.

Denise obtained a Master’s in Public Administration in 1986 from Golden Gate University and more recently (2008) a Master’s in Family Therapy from Notre Dame de Namur University where she graduated Suma Cum Laude. She has14 years of experience in mental health program management, client screening and case management working with culturally diverse populations in both Hawaii and the California Bay Area including court-involved juveniles, medically complex and frail elderly, and recently immigrated populations. Denise brings to Ravenswood her traditional Pacific Islander cultural perspective including the traditional framework of ho’popo’pono’. Her clinical strengths include assessing the mental health needs of parolees reentering into society, providing short-term counseling to parolees and the clinic’s English-speaking patients, and supporting partner agencies in developing the systemic integration of those services.