Our mission is to help our clients get healthy and happy with a conscientious head, heart, and body. We aim to serve our clients with the highest level of integrity, compassion, and love.

Our mission is to help our clients get healthy and happy with a conscientious head, heart, and body.  We aim to serve our clients with the highest level of integrity, compassion, and love.

Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions at the bottom of this page.

Our Team

Shaelyn T. Pham, PhD
Shaelyn T. Pham, PhDLicensed Psychologist
Shaelyn T. Pham, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and the founder of PsychServes. She is dedicated and passionate about helping you with your transformation. She specializes in overcoming past trauma, managing anger, resolving resentment, and navigating personality issues. Dr. Pham is committed to nurturing your romantic relationship dynamics through innovative (re)vitalization strategies and bolstering your entrepreneurial spirit.
Artraneen Gardner, LPCC
Artraneen Gardner, LPCCLicensed professional clinical counselor
Artraneen supports clients by building a genuine, trusting relationship to create a safe space for openness, personal growth and positive change.She is passionate about working with individuals who are focused on understanding and learning how to express their emotions and change behaviors that may prohibit them from their personal growth goals.
Melissa Paramo, PsyD
Melissa Paramo, PsyDRegistered Psychological Associate
Dr. Melissa believes in providing clients with a safe and non judgmental space to assist them with the process of opening up and trusting the therapeutic process. She uses a collaborative approach while providing emotional support to clients when figuring out their goals, needs, and emotions.
Melanie English, MA
Melanie English, MAPsychotherapist
Melanie empathetically and unconditionally supports clients to work through unresolved issues and make actionable changes for positive growth. Her compassionate, tailored approach helps clients of all ages to feel safe and heard. Through a holistic lens, Melanie guides clients to cultivate inner awareness, express their emotions, and let go of behaviors that they have outgrown.
Chloe Mandel, MA
Chloe Mandel, MAPsychotherapist
Chloe Mandel takes a person-centered and individualized approach to empower clients to take an active role in their own psychological growth and healing. She is passionate about helping clients improve their mental health, develop better coping mechanisms, or build stronger relationships with loved ones.
Mauro Martinez-Gonzalez, MA
Mauro Martinez-Gonzalez, MAPsychotherapist
Mauro understands diverse population needs, he believes in offering a holistic and empathic approach and creating a safe place for therapeutic collaboration to provide tools and support to individuals in their journey for growth and self-healing. He is committed to providing an affirming space to customize problem-solving skills based on the individual’s needs.
Sneha Punukollu, PMFT
Sneha Punukollu, PMFTPsychotherapist
Sneha is an empathetic and collaborative therapist committed to creating an environment where clients feel at ease and empowered to express themselves without fear of judgment. As an integrative systemic therapist, she utilizes a fusion of therapeutic modalities to tailor interventions to the specific needs of each client.
Kimberly Tran, AMFT
Kimberly Tran, AMFTAssociate Marriage & Family Therapist
Kim is a holistic therapist renowned for her warmth, compassion, and unwavering belief in the inherent power of every individual. Her commitment to fostering a sense of empowerment leads her to integrate therapeutic modalities tailored toward each client’s unique needs.
Chris Karmiol, AMFT
Chris Karmiol, AMFTAssociate Marriage & Family Therapist
With compassion and connection, Chris Karmiol understands diverse people’s unique personal needs. He offers a holistic, empathic approach that brings clients closer to authenticity to recognize and overcome creative blocks and personal obstacles. In a warm, caring therapeutic collaboration, Chris creates space to nourish his clients’ wellness and encourage inner growth.
Kazia Cumbler, AMFT
Kazia Cumbler, AMFTAssociate Marriage & Family Therapist
Kazia is an empathetic, non-judgmental therapist who strives to help her clients better their lives through self-actualization and through the power of therapeutic relationship. She works closely with her clients to help them gain personal insight and process old wounds, as well as recognize and address maladaptive patterns and behaviors.
Nicole Y. Herrarte, MA
Nicole Y. Herrarte, MAPsychotherapist
Nicole believes in empowering clients to be catalysts of change in their lives. With a client-centered approach, Nicole creates a safe space where clients can dive deep and make changes. Her creative nature is open to clients who want to explore themselves using creative art forms or bringing their spirituality into the session.
Willisha Tucker, MAS
Willisha Tucker, MASRegistered Psychological Associate
Willisha is a holistic and empathetic therapist who strives to support the person fully in all endeavors. She aims to provide an open space for true expression throughout all modalities. With her diverse background, she hopes to use this to bring forth an inclusive space for further development within all areas of your life.
Derek Hurschman, MS
Derek Hurschman, MSRegistered Psychologist Assistant
Derek is a passionate and understanding therapist who truly wishes to recognize you as a whole person. His goal is to create a safe and collaborative space for the client to feel autonomous and empowered, while working together to improve motivation, self-confidence, and overall performance in daily aspects of life.
Erryn M. Shine, MS
Erryn M. Shine, MSRegistered Psychological Assistant
Erryn strives to create a therapeutic environment where one feels safe to be vulnerable. She engages collaboratively with clients so they feel a sense of autonomy and empowerment. Erryn’s aim is to be a guide in helping clients see, as well as attain their full potential in addition to living their lives authentically.
Jade Wranosky, PsyD
Jade Wranosky, PsyDClinical Psychologist
Dr. Wranosky aims to establish an authentic connection with her clients within the frame of the therapeutic relationship. She believes that genuine moments of understanding generate the feeling of truth, and authenticity. She collaborates with her clients to find connection within parts of themselves and those around them.
Maedeh Vahed, MA
Maedeh Vahed, MARegistered Psychological Associate
Maedeh is committed to helping others through a collaborative approach with core values of self-respect, respect for others, honesty, authenticity, and reliability. Her goal is to contribute to solutions for mental health by helping her clients to overcome the obstacles that are negatively affecting their quality of life.
Cassandra Bursma, RDN
Cassandra Bursma, RDNRegistered Dietician
Cassandra is a dedicated clinician who is passionate in helping her clients rediscover the joy of eating. She recognizes the importance of nourishing the body from the inside out in order to be your best self.
Gabriela Costardi, PhD
Gabriela Costardi, PhDPsychologist
Dr. Costardi works to create a safe space for the client to be able to open up and feel engaged in a deep quest about his or her subjective life. In her experience, therapy is a process of creating knowledge through revisiting client’s history as well as being attentive to current experiences.
Natalia Stadnik, PsyD
Natalia Stadnik, PsyDRegistered Psychological Associate
Dr. Stadnik is a devoted and compassionate therapist who strives to create a warm, accepting, and safe atmosphere in therapy. She believes that a collaborative therapeutic relationship fosters clients’ personal or professional growth and promotes psychological wellness.
Sourena Haj-Mohamadi, PhD
Sourena Haj-Mohamadi, PhDPsychologist
Dr. Haj understands that life can be challenging at times given the demands of today’s day and age. Through therapy, she creates a safe space where one can process and focus on what is most important to them, which will help guide and create a healthy lifestyle.
Silvana Aviles, PsyD
Silvana Aviles, PsyDClinical Psychologist
Dr. Silvana Aviles believes that effective therapy begins with a strong therapeutic relationship. Whether the individual is seeking guidance for current life stressors, or long-standing concerns, Dr. Aviles takes a collaborative approach to ensure that one’s unique needs are met.
Jeffery Hicks, PsyD
Jeffery Hicks, PsyDPsychologist
Dr. Hicks believes therapy should be a safe place in which the therapist collaborates with individuals, as they consider beliefs, feelings, patterns, and behaviors. Through this therapeutic relationship and collaboration there is an opportunity for individuals to identify issues in which change could be beneficial, gain insight into oneself and others, and set goals.
Maryse Nguyen, DNP
Maryse Nguyen, DNPPsychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Dr. Nguyen treats not only the body, but the mind and spirit; she believes spirituality plays an important role in wellness. She has passion to care for clients with various mental disorders with the goals of reaching remission and maintaining quality of life.
Krysti Nguyen, PhD
Krysti Nguyen, PhDLicensed Psychologist & Certified Coach
Dr. Krysti Nguyen’s passion is to help people to become healthy and live a well balance life. This passion has inspired her to work in the field. Her goal is to provide a holistic approach to assist patients to grow and overcome blocks in their lives
Sara Said, PhD
Sara Said, PhDClinical Psychologist
Dr. Sara Said is a compassionate clinical psychologist who specializes in health psychology. She works actively and collaboratively with clients of all ages addressing variety of distressing symptoms. She takes an integrative approach to tailor interventions that best meets the client’s unique needs across individual, couples, group, and family modalities.
Alfred Asfand Yar, MBS
Alfred Asfand Yar, MBSAccount Manager & Biller
Equipped with a Master’s in Business Studies (MBS) and a strong foundation in finance and accounting, I have honed a multifaceted approach to billing and client balance management. My approach emphasizes precision, clear communication, and a client-centric focus, fostering trust and long-term relationships with clients.

Our Team

Shaelyn T. Pham, PhD
Shaelyn T. Pham, PhDLicensed Psychologist
Shaelyn T. Pham, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and the founder of PsychServes. She is dedicated and passionate about helping you with your transformation. She specializes in overcoming past trauma, managing anger, resolving resentment, and navigating personality issues. Dr. Pham is committed to nurturing your romantic relationship dynamics through innovative (re)vitalization strategies and bolstering your entrepreneurial spirit.
Artraneen Gardner, LPCC
Artraneen Gardner, LPCCLicensed professional clinical counselor
Artraneen supports clients by building a genuine, trusting relationship to create a safe space for openness, personal growth and positive change.She is passionate about working with individuals who are focused on understanding and learning how to express their emotions and change behaviors that may prohibit them from their personal growth goals.
Melissa Paramo, PsyD
Melissa Paramo, PsyDRegistered Psychological Associate
Dr. Melissa believes in providing clients with a safe and non judgmental space to assist them with the process of opening up and trusting the therapeutic process. She uses a collaborative approach while providing emotional support to clients when figuring out their goals, needs, and emotions.
Melanie English, MA
Melanie English, MAPsychotherapist
Melanie empathetically and unconditionally supports clients to work through unresolved issues and make actionable changes for positive growth. Her compassionate, tailored approach helps clients of all ages to feel safe and heard. Through a holistic lens, Melanie guides clients to cultivate inner awareness, express their emotions, and let go of behaviors that they have outgrown.
Chloe Mandel, MA
Chloe Mandel, MAPsychotherapist
Chloe Mandel takes a person-centered and individualized approach to empower clients to take an active role in their own psychological growth and healing. She is passionate about helping clients improve their mental health, develop better coping mechanisms, or build stronger relationships with loved ones.
Mauro MartinezGonzalez, MA
Mauro MartinezGonzalez, MAPsychotherapist
Mauro understands diverse population needs, he believes in offering a holistic and empathic approach and creating a safe place for therapeutic collaboration to provide tools and support to individuals in their journey for growth and self-healing. He is committed to providing an affirming space to customize problem-solving skills based on the individual’s needs.
Sneha Punukollu, PMFT
Sneha Punukollu, PMFTPsychotherapist
Sneha is an empathetic and collaborative therapist committed to creating an environment where clients feel at ease and empowered to express themselves without fear of judgment. As an integrative systemic therapist, she utilizes a fusion of therapeutic modalities to tailor interventions to the specific needs of each client.
Chris Karmiol, AMFT
Chris Karmiol, AMFTAssociate Marriage & Family Therapist
With compassion and connection, Chris Karmiol understands diverse people’s unique personal needs. He offers a holistic, empathic approach that brings clients closer to authenticity to recognize and overcome creative blocks and personal obstacles. In a warm, caring therapeutic collaboration, Chris creates space to nourish his clients’ wellness and encourage inner growth.
Kazia Cumbler, AMFT
Kazia Cumbler, AMFTAssociate Marriage & Family Therapist
Kazia is an empathetic, non-judgmental therapist who strives to help her clients better their lives through self-actualization and through the power of therapeutic relationship. She works closely with her clients to help them gain personal insight and process old wounds, as well as recognize and address maladaptive patterns and behaviors.
Nicole Y. Herrarte, MA
Nicole Y. Herrarte, MAPsychotherapist
Nicole believes in empowering clients to be catalysts of change in their lives. With a client-centered approach, Nicole creates a safe space where clients can dive deep and make changes. Her creative nature is open to clients who want to explore themselves using creative art forms or bringing their spirituality into the session.
Willisha Tucker, MAS
Willisha Tucker, MASRegistered Psychological Associate
Willisha is a holistic and empathetic therapist who strives to support the person fully in all endeavors. She aims to provide an open space for true expression throughout all modalities. With her diverse background, she hopes to use this to bring forth an inclusive space for further development within all areas of your life.
Derek Hurschman, MS
Derek Hurschman, MSRegistered Psychological Assistant
Derek is a passionate and understanding therapist who truly wishes to recognize you as a whole person. His goal is to create a safe and collaborative space for the client to feel autonomous and empowered, while working together to improve motivation, self-confidence, and overall performance in daily aspects of life.
Erryn M. Shine, MS
Erryn M. Shine, MSRegistered Psychological Assistant
Erryn strives to create a therapeutic environment where one feels safe to be vulnerable. She engages collaboratively with clients so they feel a sense of autonomy and empowerment. Erryn’s aim is to be a guide in helping clients see, as well as attain their full potential in addition to living their lives authentically.
Jade Wranosky, PsyD
Jade Wranosky, PsyDClinical Psychologist
Jade aims to establish an authentic connection with her clients within the frame of the therapeutic relationship. She believes that genuine moments of understanding generate the feeling of truth, and authenticity. She collaborates with her clients to find connection within parts of themselves and those around them.
Maedeh Vadeh, MA
Maedeh Vadeh, MARegistered Psychological Associate
Maedeh is committed to helping others through a collaborative approach with core values of self-respect, respect for others, honesty, authenticity, and reliability. Her goal is to contribute to solutions for mental health by helping her clients to overcome the obstacles that are negatively affecting their quality of life.
Cassandra Bursma, RDN
Cassandra Bursma, RDNRegistered Dietician
Cassandra is a dedicated clinician who is passionate in helping her clients rediscover the joy of eating. She recognizes the importance of nourishing the body from the inside out in order to be your best self.
Gabriela Costardi, PhD
Gabriela Costardi, PhDPsychologist
Dr. Costardi works to create a safe space for the client to be able to open up and feel engaged in a deep quest about his or her subjective life. In her experience, therapy is a process of creating knowledge through revisiting client’s history as well as being attentive to current experiences.
Natalia Stadnik, PsyD
Natalia Stadnik, PsyDRegistered Psychological Associate
Natalia is a devoted and compassionate therapist who strives to create a warm, accepting, and safe atmosphere in therapy. She believes that a collaborative therapeutic relationship fosters clients’ personal or professional growth and promotes psychological wellness.
Sourena Haj-Mohamadi, PhD
Sourena Haj-Mohamadi, PhDPsychologist
Dr. Haj understands that life can be challenging at times given the demands of today’s day and age. Through therapy, she creates a safe space where one can process and focus on what is most important to them, which will help guide and create a healthy lifestyle.
Silvana Good, PsyD
Silvana Good, PsyDRegistered Psychological Associate
Dr. Silvana Good believes that effective therapy begins with a strong therapeutic relationship. Whether the individual is seeking guidance for current life stressors, or long-standing concerns, Dr. Good takes a collaborative approach to ensure that one’s unique needs are met.
Jeffery Hicks, PsyD
Jeffery Hicks, PsyDPsychologist
Dr. Hicks believes therapy should be a safe place in which the therapist collaborates with individuals, as they consider beliefs, feelings, patterns, and behaviors. Through this therapeutic relationship and collaboration there is an opportunity for individuals to identify issues in which change could be beneficial, gain insight into oneself and others, and set goals.
Maryse Nguyen, DNP
Maryse Nguyen, DNPPsychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Dr. Nguyen treats not only the body, but the mind and spirit; she believes spirituality plays an important role in wellness. She has passion to care for clients with various mental disorders with the goals of reaching remission and maintaining quality of life.
Krysti Nguyen, PhD
Krysti Nguyen, PhDPsychotherapist & Certified Coach
Dr. Krysti Nguyen’s passion is to help people to become healthy and live a well balance life. This passion has inspired her to work in the field. Her goal is to provide a holistic approach to assist patients to grow and overcome blocks in their lives
Sara Said, PhD
Sara Said, PhDClinical Psychologist
Dr. Sara Said is a compassionate clinical psychologist who specializes in health psychology. Dr. Said works actively and collaboratively with clients of all ages addressing variety of distressing symptoms. She takes an integrative approach to tailor interventions that best meets the client’s unique needs across individual, couples, group, and family modalities.
Alfred Asfand Yar, MBS
Alfred Asfand Yar, MBSAccount Manager & Biller
Equipped with a Master’s in Business Studies (MBS) and a strong foundation in finance and accounting, I have honed a multifaceted approach to billing and client balance management. My approach emphasizes precision, clear communication, and a client-centric focus, fostering trust and long-term relationships with clients.

Frequently Asked Questions

When you’re too closed to your situation, it’s hard to see things clearly for what they are. It helps to have an unbiased new set of eyes to see the problems in a new perspective in order to help you solve it. As Einstein put it, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

No. We don’t tell our clients what to do.  We believe in fostering independent instead of dependency; therefore, we don’t tell our clients what to do.  We also believe changes are more likely to last when you decide them for yourself as well as the act of making the decision fostering confidence and building self-trust.

If you believe therapy is not right for you, then explore our coaching packages to help you get specific instruction and solution to thrive in any specific goal.

It’s a collaborative process. In the beginning your therapist and you will work together to develop goals that you’d like to achieve. Along the way, our therapists will provide support, tips, tools, guidance and suggestion based on their observation regarding to what seems to be working well for you or not in order to help you meet your goals.

For optimal results, we typically start off with weekly session for new clients. It’s difficult to maintain momentum for the desirable outcomes initially if the frequency is any less than that.  The goal is for you to make progress and as you you make progress, you and your therapist will reevaluate the process and decrease the frequency of session as needed. Ultimately, we want to work ourselves out of a job because you no longer need our help.

Certainly not!  At PsychServes, we believe that seeking therapy required strength and courage. Seeking help to resolve your problems is wise, not weak.There’s nothing wrong with seeking additional support from a trained professional.  You probably don’t have a problem going to see a kidney doctor, why is it a problem to go see a doctor for head or heart issues? That said, our therapists are strength-based oriented. We believe you’re strong, resilient with the ability and capacity to take on the challenge of facing your issues and deals with it heads on.  Our job is to provide additional support and tools to strengthen what’s already in you.

Some people do choose to only take medication; however, medication alone is not a long term solution for mental and emotional issues. Psychological and emotional issues are complex, having multiple causes and they cannot be solved solely by medication. In some cases,  a combination of medication and therapy is needed and we do encourage our clients to consider that treatment approach for greater relief.

We charge $250 for the initial assessment and $200 per session thereafter.  All payments are due at the end of each session unless you and your therapist have made a different arrangement such as upfront payment for the month.We accept cash, checks, and credit cards.

Yes. Our doctors are encouraged to provide pro-bono services.  In certain cases of financial hardship, our doctors may be able to  work with you on the fee to get you the help you need.

We accept all PPO’s as out-of-network provider.  We’re also in network with some insurance company (Aetna, Cigna, BlueCross/Blueshield, MHN, First Health); however, it’s your responsibility to ensure that you have mental health coverage as each insurance is different.  You can check by asking the following questions:

  • Do I have mental health insurance benefits?
  • What is my deductible and has it been met?
  • What is my co-pay?
  • How many sessions per year does my health insurance cover?
  • Is pre-authorization required?
  • What percentage of the cost will be covered when I see an out of network provider?

Additionally, if you have a Health Savings Account (HSA) or “flex account” through your employer, you may be able to receive reimbursement from that account.

Congratulations!  You have made one of the most important decisions in your life.  That is the hard part, what you need to do now is easy in comparison. You can schedule your first appointment by calling us at (213) 842-4584 or click here  to register as a new patient with your preferred therapist and reserve an appointment at a time that’s convenient for you. We look forward to helping you!

Coaching is a process of supporting an individual to achieve specific personal or professional goal. Think of it as going from “good” to “great.”  For example, Kobe Bryant was great at basketball and Tiger Woods was a great golfer but they had coaches to help them take it to the next level of development and be phenomenal.

Once again, you can call us at (213) 842-4582 and request for coaching sessions with one of our certified coaches.

There are a number of benefits from therapy or coaching such as gaining support, problem solving skills, and coping strategies to deal with difficult issues. Therapists can provide new perspectives to your issues and guide you in the right direction to positive solutions. Some of the benefits from therapy may include:

  • Attaining a better understanding of self, goals and values
  • Improving listening and communication skills
  • Developing skills to improve your relationships
  • Changing unhealthy behaviors and habits
  • Developing better decision making skills
  • Finding resolution to the issues that led you to seek therapy
  • Improving ways to handle stress and anxiety
  • Developing effective ways to manage anger, depression, and other emotional pressures
  • Discovering new ways to solve your problems
  • Improving your self-esteem and boosting self-confidence
  • Enhancing the overall quality of life

Start today to get the support you need here!

Psychological assessments or evaluations typically refer to the process of going through a “battery” of psychological tests.  A battery consists of many different psychological tests your psychologist uses to address your needs. The psychologist meets with you to do the testing, once the testing is finished, a report will be generated based on given test scores and interpretation.  In most cases, you’ll meet with the psychologist again where s/he explain to you their finding and answer any questions or concerns you may have.

The cost varies depends on how long, how complex and how many tests we’d need to use.  The general range for psychological evaluation breakdown as follows:

Diagnostic: $2500

Psychoeducation: $1250- $2750

Forensic: $2500-$7500