About Me | Dr. Haleh Eghrari

INFORMATION ABOUT DR. EGHRARI

Dr. Eghrari has been a licensed psychologist since 1994. Since 1998, she has been in a private practice in West Los Angeles. She works with adolescents, adults, geriatrics, couples, and families. Her expertise includes depression, anxiety, relationship dysfunctions, acculturation issues, adjustment problems, personality disorders, and psychosis.

Dr. Eghrari is fluent in both English and Farsi. In her clinical practice, one of Dr. Eghrari’s strengths is her ability to connect with American-born Iranian teenagers and youth (the “second generation” Iranians) and to help them with bicultural and cross-generational issues.

Education:

Dr. Eghrari finished high school in Iran in 1977. She ranked among the top ten students in Iran’s University entrance exam. In 1981, she got her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Southern California. In 1988, she got her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of Rochester, New York. During her graduate studies, she was part of the research group in the Human Motivation Program. Her doctoral thesis examined how people internalize change. This area of inquiry has substantially contributed to her knowledge of promoting change through psychotherapy.

Training in Clinical Psychology:

Following her Ph.D., Dr. Eghrari returned to California and pursued post-doctoral training in counseling and clinical psychology. She established her academic foundation in clinical psychology through courseworks in various educational and training programs such as Pepperdine University and California State University, Los Angeles. Dr. Eghrari accumulated a wide range of clinical experience by working with inpatient and outpatient populations. As a post doctoral resident, she worked with mood disorders, drug addiction, adult survivors of childhood abuse and trauma, and adolescents with impulse control disorders and depression. Prior to her private practice, she was the chief mental health provider at several inpatient settings where she encountered and worked with a wide range of psychopathology. She also accumulated wide experience in working with geriatric population. From 1998, Dr. Eghrari has moved into private practice in West Los Angeles. Since 2005, she has also attended numerous training programs focusing on the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in addressing emotional problems. These programs include: trainings in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York. She has also attended several training workshops in Cognitive Therapy at the Beck Institute, in Philadelphia.

Teaching and Public Education Experience:

Over the course of her career as a psychologist, Dr. Eghrari has served as a teacher as well as a clinician. She was an adjunct faculty at colleges and universities across Southern California and has taught diverse topics such as social psychology, abnormal psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and personal adjustment. Further, she has participated in public education seminars and has lectured on diverse topics such as streotypes and social cognition, psychology of freedom, altruism and helping behavior, the nature of prejudice, the aging process, immigration in relation to individualistic versus interdependent cultures, and the relation between mental health and spirituality..