• 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.

• M.A., Social Work
• California State
  University, Long Beach
• B.A., Psychology
• California State
  University, Northridge

Lucy Minassian is an interactive, solution-focused therapist with over 18 years of experience in the mental health field. As a licensed clinical social worker, her work history consists of working with individuals across the age spectrum in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Applying various evidenced-based approaches, she encourages family involvement as a major part in the recovery process. A firm believer in systems theory, she sees the family unit as complex and ever-changing. Thereby challenging and empowering families to grow and thrive in order to meet the demands of the family unit.

Specializing in treating adolescents, adults, couples, and families struggling with addiction, co-occurring disorders, relationship issues, anxiety, and depression. Lucy takes an action-oriented, collaborative approach to promote change in both individuals and their families. Along with compassion and understanding, Lucy utilizes the therapeutic relationship to explore the underlying causes of addiction in order to successfully move through pain and trauma to develop healthy coping skills.

• MPH, Sports Medicine & Public Health, Western University of Health Sciences
• ND, Clinical and Holistic Human Nutrition & Naturopathy, American College of Holistic Nutrition
• MD/PhD CandidateSt. Luke’s University School of Medicine
• Certified by the Council on Naturopathic Registration and Accreditation

Dr. Farid Zarif is a certified ED specialist and highly sought leader in ED (Eating Disorders) therapy, dietetics, and human nutrition science.  He holds advance degrees in human nutrition science and naturopathy.  He is a former instructor of Patient Standardization at Western University, School of Medicine. Dr. Zarif is also a professional public speaker, presenter, and authority on “How the Human Circadian Rhythms Affect Biological and Physiological Reactions, during ingestion, physical activity and sleep.

Dr. Zarif is the founder and CEO of The Rhythm System, Yutrition.co and The Zarif Foundation. The foundation develops after school mentoring programs and curriculums for public and private schools, faith-based organizations, and educational institutions.  It also contracts with social service agencies, churches, Faith-based agencies to assist with health awareness, disease and illness (including: Diabetes, hypertension, heart, respiratory, obesity and cancer) mitigation and eating disorders assessment and treatment.

The Rhythm System is firmly rooted in personal empowerment, adaptability, and the right to make productive decisions.  Dr. Zarif is also a certified and registered Nutritionist and Naturopath and has aided several top tier hospitals and urgent care centers, clinics and community organizations, and celebrities globally, improve over-all healthier conditions and lifestyles.

As an ED activist, Dr. Zarif’s approach to treatment has been stellar. He has served in a leadership capacity for many educational, medical, religious, and family development programs throughout America.  He is President of the Professional Fitness Instructors of America (PFIA).

• Pepperdine University, MFT-LPCC
• Chicago School of Professional Psychology, B.S. Psychology
• UCLA Circle of Core, Volunteer

Brandy Hughes has a background in the nonprofit sector where she worked as a director of development for over five years. Her passions for psychology led her to pursue a career in mental health and ultimately to the administrative team at the Meadowglade

Brandy is currently working on her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University. Upon completion of the program, Brandy will obtain her licensure in Marriage and Family Therapy as well as Professional Clinical Counseling.

Brandy enjoys being a part of a team that is making the difference in the lives of clients and their families and she looks forward to working with clients in a therapeutic capacity in the future.

• 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.

• 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.

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,