Dr. Michelle Scoggins
I have 10+ years experience inspiring my patients to achieve their dreams and overcome personal adversities. I create a nurturing and therapeutic environment for clients to overcome personal adversities and achieve their best health and wellness. I have a great deal of experience treating clients who are impacted with depression, anxiety, faced with life transitions, body image and health concerns, career growth, divorce, step-parenting, and blended family issues. I am also a certified Nutritional Psychologist and work to empower clients by guiding and counseling how food choices and nutrition impact their overall wellbeing. I help my clients transform unhealthy connections to food, and reveal an optimal path of mental and nutritional balance. This balance empowers my clients to avoid symptoms of depression, anxiety and obesity and negative body/personal image often experienced by society. I also collaborate with other professionals in the area that practice Naturopathic Medicine as a way to treat conditions often unexplained in Western Medicine.
I am a U.S veteran of the United States Air Force and has worked with clients in both the private and government sectors. I empower my clients to see beyond societal limitations in order to achieve the best version of themselves. I am also passionate about working with intercultural clients to create self-worth and self-love while preserving cultural and family values.
My therapy style is eclectic. I use a blend of evidence-based interventions to meet individual needs, while maintaining a foundation based on a Psychodynamic framework, more specifically Object Relations. I believe that current difficulties emerge due to emotional wounds experienced in childhood, and I work to enlighten my clients on the impact of trauma and how it is unintentionally reenacted in encounters throughout life. The impact of endured trauma often leaves a person feeling defeated and unable to rise above negative thoughts and self-limitations. I offer a safe and empowering place to process trauma and grieve and those early experiences, while revealing new and renewed strength.
I received my M.S. and Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University – Fresno. I am Licensed Clinical Psychologist in California (CA PSY 29566), a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the San Joaquin Valley Psychological Association (SJVPA).
I am a U.S veteran of the United States Air Force and has worked with clients in both the private and government sectors. I empower my clients to see beyond societal limitations in order to achieve the best version of themselves. I am also passionate about working with intercultural clients to create self-worth and self-love while preserving cultural and family values.
My therapy style is eclectic. I use a blend of evidence-based interventions to meet individual needs, while maintaining a foundation based on a Psychodynamic framework, more specifically Object Relations. I believe that current difficulties emerge due to emotional wounds experienced in childhood, and I work to enlighten my clients on the impact of trauma and how it is unintentionally reenacted in encounters throughout life. The impact of endured trauma often leaves a person feeling defeated and unable to rise above negative thoughts and self-limitations. I offer a safe and empowering place to process trauma and grieve and those early experiences, while revealing new and renewed strength.
I received my M.S. and Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University – Fresno. I am Licensed Clinical Psychologist in California (CA PSY 29566), a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the San Joaquin Valley Psychological Association (SJVPA).