• M.D., St. George’s
  University School of
  Medicine in Grenada
• Residency, Delaware
  Psychiatry Residency
  Program, Adult
  Psychiatry
• Fellowship, Johns
  Hopkins University
  School of Medicine,
  Child and Adolescent
  Psychiatry Fellowship
• Certification, Psychiatry,
  American Board of
• Certification, Psychiatry
  & Neurology

Iman Parhami, MD MPH is a board-certified psychiatrist who completed his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Parhami strives to practice a multi-disciplinary approach that is empirically supported, family driven, and culturally sensitive. In addition to being the psychiatrist here, Dr. Parhami attends to his clients at West Valley’s Community Mental Health Clinic, at USC’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and at a private clinic.

Furthermore, Dr. Parhami, provides clinical instruction in psychiatry to medical students, psychology interns, and postdoctoral trainees at USC’s UCEDD.

Dr. Parhami’s clinical interests include helping adolescents overcome excessive behaviors that can become problematic, such as video gaming, drug use, and gambling.

He is also enthused in providing psychiatric evaluations and psychopharmacological treatments for complex ADHD, severe mood disorders, autism related symptoms, mood disorders, aggressive behaviors, depression, and anxiety disorders.

Dr. Parhami’s training experience consists of multiple settings highlighted by year-long rotations at the Co-Occurring Disorders in Adolescence Clinic at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger Institute. During his training, he received multiple national recognition awards, which included a research training grant from the American Academy of Children and Adolescents and National Institute of Drug Use, and other awards from the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Parhami has published multiple peer-reviewed scientific journal articles focusing on addictive disorders. Notably, Dr. Parhami completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at UCLA focusing on psychosocial interventions for behavioral addictions and a clinical fellowship at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

Dr. Parhami spends his free time with friends and family in the San Fernando Valley, where he grew up. He is also an avid fan of his alma mater’s (USC) football team.

• CSU Fullerton, M.Sc Counseling
• 5 Years Experience Mental Health
• DBT Approach

Afnan provides an uplifting enthusiasm to assist clients in illuminating areas of growth. She offers a holistic and culturally-competent approach to therapy by compassionately listening, supporting, and educating clients along their journey in self-discovery. Her approach to therapy exemplifies assertiveness, guidance, and highlights how one relates to others, and influences in relationships. In therapy, we are mindful of language as it shapes our perception of our world and the way we relate to others. Afnan will offer a refreshing take on creating change by challenging you to step outside of your comfort zone. She works from a DBT approach (distress-tolerance and emotional regulation skills), utilizing mindfulness exercises, and reconstructing one’s story line, to achieve a more meaningful life.

In her work as a therapist, Afnan also uses a family systems models to address chronic patterns, compulsive behavior, and addiction. She will modify and use other modalities depending on client needs, using the basis of psycho-education, collaboration, and transparency as a platform. She graduated from California State University, Fullerton with an earned Masters of Science degree in Counseling. Afnan has worked in the mental health field for 5 years working with marginalized populations ages ranging from 12-65 years old.

• LMFT
• Pepperdine University
• Narrative, CBT, and Solution-Focused Therapy

Marlin Sandlin is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu. He spent two years working with depth psychologist Dr. James Hollis at the Jung Center of Houston. Following that, he worked in medical detox helping people stay sober and live more meaningful lives. Marlin practices Narrative Therapy as taught by Michael White, David Epson, and David Marsten. Marlin has a particular interest in working with artists, those facing their next big challenge in life, and individuals feeling “stuck” in life, and dispelling ghosts of the past that are still haunting them today. Marlin also employs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients get out of depression before it spirals — and take small, specific steps toward achieving their goals.

• Masters, University of Southern California
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker

• Adult Residential Facility Administrator, Certified
• 6 Years experiences supervising facilities

I have been working in the field of mental health residential treatment for 6 years serving diverse populations such as geriatric memory care, adults and adolescents diagnosed with serious mental illness, substance abuse, incarceration and homelessness using a person centered, restorative approach to care and psychiatric rehabilitation principles. I have been trained over the years within residential facilities of various treatment levels, detox facilities and semi locked facilitates obtaining preeminent training in all psychiatric settings. My emphasis is on integrative case management and providing care to clients in crisis. My mission is to create safe healing spaces for those in need of help based on a person centered, restorative, harm reduction approach to care. My administrative focus on understanding the complexity of challenges faced while maintaining licensing requirements is imperative to a residential facilities success. I have run 4 previous facilities in my career. A forensic facility that gave me the ability to work alongside the Justice Alliance/ Forensic Team, Santa Barbara Law Enforcement, Santa Barbara Behavioral Wellness, Public Defender, and District Attorney’s Office. We worked in retaining clients with severe mental illnesses to undergo mental health court and transition onto a stable placement. The second facility was a facility created as a placement for the toughest clients in Santa Barbara County who repeatedly were hospitalized in psychiatric units and locked down facilities. I worked closely with Santa Barbara Behavioral Wellness and the ACT Team to retain these clients providing them with intensive mental health care in order to prevent clients from being admitted to permanent locked facilities. The third facility was an intensive 18 month placement facility that was in place to support clients in attaining employment and transition to independent living arrangements or reintegration back to their families once considerable mental health stability had been successfully reached. The fourth facility was a permanent residence stay for severely mentally ill clients that battled with schizophrenia, bipolar, depression, anxiety etc. In that placement we would work with some of the clients with the most psychiatric hospitalizations in Santa Barbara County and provide them with the utmost care to retain their placement and ensure their stability through medication management and continual mental support. In conjunction, these facilities and their clients were overseen by the head psychiatrist of Santa Barbara County Mental Health.

• Facility Manager

I have been working in the field of mental health residential treatment for 6 years serving diverse populations such as geriatric memory care, adults and adolescents diagnosed with serious mental illness, substance abuse, incarceration and homelessness using a person centered, restorative approach to care and psychiatric rehabilitation principles. I have been trained over the years within residential facilities of various treatment levels, detox facilities and semi locked facilitates obtaining preeminent training in all psychiatric settings. My emphasis is on integrative case management and providing care to clients in crisis. My mission is to create safe healing spaces for those in need of help based on a person centered, restorative, harm reduction approach to care. My administrative focus on understanding the complexity of challenges faced while maintaining licensing requirements is imperative to a residential facilities success. I have run 4 previous facilities in my career. A forensic facility that gave me the ability to work alongside the Justice Alliance/ Forensic Team, Santa Barbara Law Enforcement, Santa Barbara Behavioral Wellness, Public Defender, and District Attorney’s Office. We worked in retaining clients with severe mental illnesses to undergo mental health court and transition onto a stable placement. The second facility was a facility created as a placement for the toughest clients in Santa Barbara County who repeatedly were hospitalized in psychiatric units and locked down facilities. I worked closely with Santa Barbara Behavioral Wellness and the ACT Team to retain these clients providing them with intensive mental health care in order to prevent clients from being admitted to permanent locked facilities. The third facility was an intensive 18 month placement facility that was in place to support clients in attaining employment and transition to independent living arrangements or reintegration back to their families once considerable mental health stability had been successfully reached. The fourth facility was a permanent residence stay for severely mentally ill clients that battled with schizophrenia, bipolar, depression, anxiety etc. In that placement we would work with some of the clients with the most psychiatric hospitalizations in Santa Barbara County and provide them with the utmost care to retain their placement and ensure their stability through medication management and continual mental support. In conjunction, these facilities and their clients were overseen by the head psychiatrist of Santa Barbara County Mental Health.

Jessica Hernandez is a dedicated individual who strives to provide exceptional customer service to the PHP/IOP clients present at The Meadowglade. She has a wide range of experience working with at-risk youth in juvenile detention centers, group homes, and foster youth homes. Jessica has spent the last year learning and working closely with the clinical team to learn more about the overall program to successfully serve the client. She goes above and beyond and supports all clients and assist clients during their journey in recovery,