Cal State Northridge Opens Anxiety Clinic for Public
An anxiety clinic has opened at Cal State Northridge to serve the community and provide hands-on training for psychology students.
The clinic is staffed by six to eight graduate students in the Psychology Department’s master’s program in clinical health. It plans to serve up to 50 clients a semester.
The students will be under the supervision of professor Ronald Doctor, a clinical psychologist who has worked in the area of anxiety disorders for 30 years.
Doctor said Cal State Northridge is among only a few schools in the country to offer such services to the public.
The clinic is in Monterey Hall on the northwest corner of Nordhoff Street and Zelzah Avenue. It offers two-hour diagnostic interviews for $80 and weekly individual consultations for $40 an hour.
“We wanted to make it something useful to the community,” Doctor said, “something for people who can’t afford an ongoing service or who don’t want to be stuck on drugs all the time.”
Doctor said an increasing number of his students are interested in working with those suffering from anxiety disorders, “a term which didn’t exist” when he entered the field.
The clinic, open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., may be contacted for an initial telephone interview at (818) 677-5085.
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