PCH Treatment Center

11/12/2025

🌍 Rain or Shine PCH Social Justice Initiative Presents: CommUNITY Market

📍 PCH West Los Angeles
📅 Friday, November 14th | 4:30–7:30 PM

Join us for an evening celebrating connection, creativity, and collective action! ✨

At PCH, our Social Justice Initiative is built on three pillars that bring our values to life:

💛 Service
True social justice manifests through action. Our community service programs engage clients and staff in meaningful work, emphasizing impact over intention and contribution over conversation.

🧠 Education
Understanding begins with learning. Through team dialogues and educational forums, we explore complex social issues and deepen our collective awareness. (Find the link to our weekly Zoom meeting in bio.)

🎨 Art
Art is transformation in motion. We celebrate creative expression as a vehicle for change—inviting our community to voice their experiences, challenge perspectives, and build empathy through artistic storytelling.

Come connect, create, and collaborate with local partners, makers, and advocates at the CommUNITY Market. Together, we move from awareness to action. 💫

11/11/2025

Honoring all who have served.

Your courage and sacrifice inspire us every day. 💙

11/07/2025

🎃PCH had a spooktacular Halloween as our Pasadena and West Los Angeles Campuses came together for a festive celebration, bake sale and bake off in support of our Social Justice Committee.

The event was filled with creativity, community spirit, and plenty of sweet treats! 🍪🧁

A special congratulations to Dee Lowe, Director of Admissions, who took home first place in our Bake-Off Competition.

Proceeds will be donated to our social justice committee and used for hygiene packages for our unhoused community.

Thank you to everyone who participated and helped make this year’s Halloween celebration such a frightfully fun success! 👻🎉

10/20/2025

🌍 PCH Social Justice Initiative Presents: CommUNITY Market

📍 PCH West Los Angeles
📅 Friday, November 14th | 4:30–7:30 PM

Join us for an evening celebrating connection, creativity, and collective action! ✨

At PCH, our Social Justice Initiative is built on three pillars that bring our values to life:

💛 Service
True social justice manifests through action. Our community service programs engage clients and staff in meaningful work, emphasizing impact over intention and contribution over conversation.

🧠 Education
Understanding begins with learning. Through team dialogues and educational forums, we explore complex social issues and deepen our collective awareness. (Find the link to our weekly Zoom meeting in bio.)

🎨 Art
Art is transformation in motion. We celebrate creative expression as a vehicle for change—inviting our community to voice their experiences, challenge perspectives, and build empathy through artistic storytelling.

Come connect, create, and collaborate with local partners, makers, and advocates at the CommUNITY Market. Together, we move from awareness to action. 💫

10/13/2025

YATA Conference Recap 🌟
From October 7–10, the Young Adult Transition Association (YATA) Conference in San Diego brought together leaders and innovators in the field of young adult mental health and transitional care.

PCH Treatment Center was proud to co-host a Mix & Mingle event with our colleagues from Galen Hope, Ellenhorn, and Koplin Consulting, fostering meaningful connection and collaboration within our community.

A highlight of the conference was Jeff Ball, PhD’s powerful presentation,
“Beyond the Clinical Gaze: Reclaiming Relationship and Context in Mental Health Care,” which invited us to re-examine the medical model and re-center the human relationships at the heart of healing.

09/26/2025

📣 Exciting Announcement! 📣

Join us at the YATA Conference for a thought-provoking session with Jeff Ball, PhD:

🗓 October 9th
⏰ 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 YATA Conference

Rethinking Mental Health
This talk challenges the dominance of the medical model in psychiatry and psychology, exploring how it reduces human suffering to diagnoses and brain chemistry. Dr. Ball will examine the enduring influence of the “clinical gaze” and the medical–pharmaceutical alliance, while making a powerful case for relational, contextual, and meaning-centered approaches to care.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a conversation about shifting the paradigm of mental health treatment.

09/12/2025

Wishing our Chief Clinical Officer, Dr Adriana Westby Trent, PhD a very Happy Birthday!

Adriana Westby-Trent, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist who has accompanied others on their healing journey for over 25 years. Fifteen of those years were in a non-profit setting with individuals and families from marginalized communities. She joined the PCH family in March of 2014: First as a Program Director in the OCD and Anxiety Clinic and then as the Executive Clinical Director in May 2016.
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Adriana has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, adults, families, and communities who have been impacted by trauma. She is trained in several trauma-responsive approaches as well as other treatment approaches for working with the myriad of physical, mental, and emotional issues we experience as humans.
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Adriana earned her B.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles; her M.A. in Clinical Psychology (Summa Cum Laude) from California State University, Northridge; and her Ph.D. (Summa Cum Laude) in Clinical Child Psychology from the Reiss Davis Graduate School.

08/29/2025

Register now!
One-Day CEU Training
The Process and Practice of Mindful Change: An Experiential Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

📍 PCH Treatment Center – Los Angeles
🗓 Saturday, October 18, 2025
🕘 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Presented by Chris Mulligan, LCSW
Clinical Director, PCH OCD & Anxiety Program

Join us for a full-day continuing education presentation offering clinicians an experiential introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)—a leading evidence-based approach in the “third wave” of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Through interactive exercises and guided practice, participants will gain practical tools to cultivate psychological flexibility, integrate mindfulness and acceptance strategies, and support clients in living with greater openness and alignment with their values.

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https://pch-treatment-center.ce-go.com/an-experiential-introduction-to-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy-act

08/11/2025

📅 Save the Date!
October 18, 2025 | In-Person at PCH

Join us for an immersive training on ACT, a powerful, evidence-based approach that fosters psychological flexibility and values-based living. Through a blend of learning, demonstrations, and experiential exercises, you’ll gain practical tools to integrate ACT into your clinical work.

08/04/2025

✨ Register now for our Do No Harm Series on "Ethical Interventions" on August 25th 11:30-1pm PST Presented by Brad Richards, Dr Jeff Ball, Phd and moderated by Adriana Westby-Trent, Phd.

Join us for a powerful discussion on Ethical Mental Health Interventions

We’ll explore non-coercive, least-restrictive care, the importance of informed consent and patient choice, and the impact of overdiagnosis and pharmaceutical influence. Learn about holistic, trauma-informed alternatives to traditional interventions that prioritize relationship, autonomy, and healing.

Let’s rethink ethical care—together.

Event Management for Continuing Education | CE-Go

07/14/2025

🌟 PCH is proud to share that our Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Adriana Westby Trent, PhD, and Director of our OCD & Anxiety Program, Chris Mulligan, LCSW, were representing PCH Treatment Center at the International OCD Foundation Conference in Chicago, July 10–13! 🧠✨

They joined experts from around the world to deepen the dialogue on OCD treatment, share clinical insights, and bring back innovative approaches to our community.

06/26/2025

Join for our next lunch and learn virtually or in-person on Monday June 30th 11:30-1pm PST in-person at PCH or Virtually 12-1pm PST on “How to Effectively and Compassionately Involve the Family in Client's Treatment".

https://pch-treatment-center.ce-go.com/engaging-the-family-in-treatment-a-systemic-approach-to-enhancing-client-outcomes-in-person

https://pch-treatment-center.ce-go.com/engaging-the-family-in-treatment-a-systemic-approach-to-enhancing-client-outcomes-virtual