Welcome to
BEVERLY HILLS PSYCHOLOGICAL CENTER
Cynthia A. Levy, Psy.D.
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BHPC provides outpatient treatment to children, adolescents, & adults via individual, group, family, & couples work.
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dr.cynthialevy@gmail.com
(310) 626-1305
BHPC Purpose
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Beverly Hills Psychological Center is a mental health practice that provides a broad array of psychological services. The purpose of the group is to provide high quality and compassionate psychological services to help improve people’s lives. The group is also to provide schools, professionals and other parts of the community assistance through mental health education and consultation.
The founder of the Center strives to deliver the highest standard of care through continuous improvement, ongoing training, and consultation. To ensure the highest quality, the services provided are often solution-oriented, evidence-based, and grounded in established theory.
MISSION STATEMENT
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Beverly Hills Psychological Center was established in order to offer community-based, integrative, and wrap-around mental health treatment through our psychological services, and by coordinating with local psychiatric and neuropsychological resources as well. Our goal is to provide high quality and empathic intervention and support to help improve clients’ emotional well being. Effective therapy utilizes collaboration, on-going training, and services that are supported and grounded in established theory and empirically validated treatments. Our practice also provides schools, parents, and other professionals in the community support through education, consultation, and volunteer opportunities.
Dr. Cynthia A. Levy is opening her third location!
WELCOME, BHPC!
We are happy to accomodate you at the Beverly Hills Psychological Center, located conveniently in the heart of B.H.! Dr. Levy is also well established and has built thriving practices within larger group practices in Calabasas and Westlake Village as well. She is able to offer her clients the flexibility of location, timing, and can accommodate a variety of complex treatment concerns for a diverse population!
about
Dr.cynthia A.Levy
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THE BHPC
Dr. Cynthia A. Levy is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY 29085). She has earned her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University/California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego. Her degree emphasis was Forensic Psychology. At AIU/CSPP, as well as California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Dr. Levy has earned Master of Arts degrees in clinical psychology, and prior to that earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Above all else, Dr. Levy places great value in establishing a comfortable, safe, warm, and supportive environment for her clients and their families. Dr. Levy works from a strength-based approach to therapy, allowing her to work collaboratively with individuals and/or families to identify the greatest strengths that will help the client get the most out of their therapy. Dr. Levy's therapeutic style emphasizes both acceptance and empathy for the client. She is attentive to the needs of the client, and most frequently employs theoretical perspectives including Cognitive-Behavioral, Family Systems, and Dialectical Behavioral therapies. Working with a diverse and multicultural population has been emphasized in Dr. Levy's formal training. She also does not hesitate to work toward creating a “team atmosphere,” attempting to foster good communication when appropriate and feasible with other members of a client’s daily life including other practitioners, family members, other physicians, teachers, and so forth in order to create the best wraparound service.
With respect to her clinical experience, Dr. Levy has worked with a highly diverse group of clients over the last several years at The Fulton Psychological Group and The Oaks Psychological Group, working individually with many adults, teens, children, and families for a variety of presenting reasons, and also leading groups with participants spanning in age from 4 to their early 20’s, and also with groups of parents. She has also worked extensively with PFLAG, an organization supporting members of the families and support systems of individuals identifying as gay, lesbian, pansexual, bisexual, transgender, gender fluid, etc., as well as the individuals themselves. Additionally, she has volunteered with the National Charity League, with various youth empowerment and educational groups, and provided parenting workshops at the practice and local public and private elementary and high schools as well.
Prior to obtaining her doctorate she gained a variety of experience including with Welfare-to-Work clientele at California Research Foundation's CalWORKS, Step Forward program. Here, she provided psychological services to individuals identifying as male and female (adult and child) clients in individual and group therapy formats, as well as in the area of case management. She led therapeutic groups pertaining to domestic violence, maintaining healthy relationships, and substance abuse for numerous months, and was able to develop her own curriculum.
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Additionally, Dr. Levy has worked extensively with children, teens, adults and families at the San Diego Center for Children (Building Bridges Program), as well as the Juvenile Forensic Services in San Diego. In addition, Dr. Levy gained valuable experience at the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic (working with adults) at California State University, Northridge, and conducted research with psychological research laboratories at the University of Southern California, California State University, Northridge, University of California, Los Angeles, and Alliant International University, San Diego.
In general, she has worked with a variety of clinical issues and diagnoses, including trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (i.e. domestic violence, sexual abuse, and so forth). She has provided services to individuals with Adjustment disorder, Anxiety disorders (Generalized, Panic, OCD, etc.), Mood disorders (Bipolar, Depression, etc.), eating disorders, addictions, suicidality/parasuicidality (i.e. cutting), Autism Spectrum disorders, Tricotillomania, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Tourette's Syndrome, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation D/O, Borderline Personality Disorder, Encopresis, and more.
Dr. Levy completed her doctoral dissertation, the title of which was, "The Lived Experience and Relationship History of Gay and Heterosexual Male Victims of Intimate Partner Violence," and has great interest in continuing to work with the LGBT community. Her Master's thesis was expanded upon and published in a journal focusing on Schizophrenia research. She has presented her work at formal conferences such as the Western Psychological Association. She also has a good deal of psychological (forensic) testing experience in the academic setting, as well as research experience. Additionally, Dr. Levy has an extensive work history that includes teaching, mentoring, and tutoring children and adolescents at local organizations such as the Special Needs Resource Center, Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, and Stephen S. Wise private elementary school, among others.
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If you have any questions for Dr. Levy or would like to speak to her further to make an appointment please email at dr.cynthialevy@gmail.com, or reach her at the office number for the B.H. location: (310) 626-1305.
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(818) 591-3000, ext. 19 for Calabasas (Fulton Psychologial Group)
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(818) 597-9333, ext. 1 for Westlake Village
(The Oaks Psychological Group)
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OUR SERVICES
We provide Individual, Group, Family, and Couple's sessions for children of all ages (0+), teens, and adults of all ages.
Please see below for details about our different therapies and specific group sessions!
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY (All Ages)
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Individual therapy is provided to adults and children and is personalized to meet the specific needs of the patient. Evidence based therapy using directive, goal-oriented methods is utilized for more meaningful results. These methods are combined with a compassionate, candid and encouraging style to create a supportive environment for the patient. With children, we use non-threatening methods such as games, role-plays, drawings and activities to put the child at ease, build rapport and reduce the sense of "being in therapy". Interventions include psycho-educational, cognitive behavioral, family systems and many others. Therapeutic issues include anxiety, depression, trauma, dealing with loss/divorce, drug/alcohol addiction, stress, and more. The most important component of successful therapy is an appropriate match between the patient and therapist. We have several therapists with various styles so that we can best match the therapist with the patient's needs and personality.
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GROUP THERAPIES
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Therapeutic (social) Groups consist of ages 4 through 18 and focus on a variety of issues. Parenting and support groups cover a variety of topics and populations as well. For the younger children, group topics include social skills, anger management, frustration tolerance, cooperation, shyness, conflict resolution among others. The teen groups (ages 14 through 17) focus on peer relationships and pressures, family relationships, drug and alcohol pressures, depression/suicide, social skills/shyness, identity formation and other teen topics. The group sessions fosters cognitive awareness through specific therapy activities as well as skill building through applicable role playing. Therapy groups include 6-10 weekly sessions (dependent upon time of year). Parent group sessions are also included to assist parents on how to best respond to their children's needs.
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The TEEN GROUP focuses on:
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* Fitting in and group affiliation
* Initiating and sustaining friendships
* Conflict resolution (with adults/ peers)
* Appropriate negotiating with parents (dating, etc.)
* Balancing school, and friends
* Self-esteem, motivation and expression of feeling
* Social pressures (drugs & defiance)
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The CHILDREN'S GROUP for social skills focuses on:
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* Initiating and sustaining friendships
* Conflict resolution
* Empathy building
* Recognizing social cues
* Self-awareness in social situations
* Anger management
* Expression of feelings
* Cooperation and sharing
* Overcoming shyness and social fears
* Appropriate use of humor
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Cost includes two-step intake process and 6-, 8-, or 10-week rounds of group sessions.
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The PARENT'S / ADULT'S SUPPORT and/or EDUCATION GROUPS
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An integral part of our treatment of children is parent education and training. We offer parent training to deal with a myriad of childhood issues. Parent training includes instruction in parent empowerment programs, conjoint sessions with a parent and child and multi parent groups to assist parents with similar parenting issues. We work with parents of younger children on establishing behavioral modification programs, responding to tantrums, overcoming homework battles and appropriate use of discipline and rewards. We help parents of teens cope with their teen's mood swings, hostility, drug and alcohol use, lack of motivation and/or depression. We also talk with parents regarding solutions like obtaining drug testing kits for parents to test their teenagers.
See instructions below to determine which forms are appropriate for your intake (and click on files to download)
(***Note: You do not need to pay with credit card but we must keep one on file)
For Adults:
The necessary forms for an intake include Adult Info, Outpatient Consent, and Cred Card Auth Form.
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For Minors:
The necessary forms for an intake session include Child Info, Outpatient Consent, and Cred Card Auth forms.
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For Groups:
Forms mentioned above along with Group Consent Form.
*Additionally, for any client you may choose to fill out a Release of Info so that Dr. Levy may connect with other important practitioners to provide the best service and team approach.
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Outpatient Consent Form
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Adult Information Form
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Child Information Form
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Telehealth Consent Form
Credit Card Authorization Form
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Release of Information
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Group Consent Form