ABOUT US
Dr. Stamatia Daroglou
Dr. Daroglou is a licensed clinical psychologist based in San Diego County, offering psychodynamically informed psychotherapy to adults and couples. She is the founder of SDPsychology, a practice committed to delivering thoughtful, evidence-based mental health care across the lifespan. Dr. Daroglou maintains offices in La Jolla and Encinitas, and provides both in-person and Telehealth services to accommodate a wide range of client needs.
Fluent in English, German, and Greek, Dr. Daroglou brings a trilingual and multicultural perspective to her work, allowing her to serve individuals from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds with depth and sensitivity.
With 30 years of experience in the mental health field, Dr. Daroglou has cultivated a clinical approach rooted in compassion, insight, and psychological depth. She has a particular interest in working with cancer patients, healthcare professionals, and older adults, offering tailored support for the complex emotional challenges these populations often face. Her areas of focus include trauma and PTSD, chronic illness, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, life transitions, and professional burnout.
Dr. Daroglou earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego (2003), after completing an M.S. in Psychology with a specialization in Psychometrics (1998) and a B.A. in Psychology (1996) from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She further enhanced her clinical training by completing a Certificate in Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 2009.
Over the course of her career, Dr. Daroglou has conducted forensic psychological evaluations for courts and correctional systems in two states, specializing in risk and threat assessments, treatment planning, and community reentry evaluations. She also served as a Behavioral Health Consultant for the U.S. Navy, providing psychological care to patients at the Naval Hospital coping with the emotional impacts of physical illness.
In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Daroglou has taught graduate-level courses, supervised clinicians in training, and led workshops for healthcare and mental health professionals. Her trainings have addressed topics such as effective communication, time management, suicide prevention, and managing forensic populations in hospital settings. She has presented at conferences and published in areas including personality assessment, cross-cultural psychology, and memory.
Through SDPsychology, Dr. Daroglou continues to provide high-quality, individualized care informed by decades of experience, cultural understanding, and a deep commitment to her clients' psychological well-being.
Dr. Ivy Kensinger
Dr. Ivy Kensinger (Dr. K) is a Psychological Associate under the supervision of Dr. Stamatia Daroglou. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Alliant International University and received clinical training in both therapy and psychological testing, working primarily with adults and adolescents age 16+. She holds certification in LGBTQ+ Mental Health and Human Services through the Rockway Institute, and has focused experience in chronic pain and other chronic illness, grief and loss, trauma, and alternative relationship styles.
Dr. K's theoretical orientation and approach to therapy is Existential-Integrationist, which means that she looks at everyone as a unique individual with personal life experiences, how these relate to universal human experiences, and tailors her therapeutic approach to fit each individual, their strengths, and their needs. Her goal is to assist patients in expanding upon their current strengths, learning more about themselves and the way they view the world, and working with their current psychological functioning to bring about improvements.
Dr. K believes strongly in approaching each person with A.C.E.: Acceptance (of the person you are and who you want to be), Compassion (for your life experiences, your struggles, and your conquests), and Equality (everyone is equally human and deserves to be treated with the same rights and respects). Therapy is a process where therapist and patient work together to bring about meaningful improvements in the patient's life. Each person is the expert on themselves, and Dr. K looks forward to learning about the unique factors that make a person who they are and working with them to make positive change.
Dr. Casey Adamson
Dr. Adamson is a Licensed Clinical psychologist with a PsyD in clinical psychology. Dr. Adamson received a Master’s degree in Psychology in 2013 from Nova Southeastern University and completed her doctoral degree in 2023 from CalSouthern University. She has over 15 years of experience working with people with traumatic experiences through community based services. She has worked with veterans for the last 10 years, focusing on harm reduction, motivational interviewing and LEAP interventions.
Dr. Adamson provides counseling and psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, and families. She has a broad range of therapeutic intervention practices including Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and multifaceted approaches in order to treat a variety of needs and diverse populations. She is focused on helping clients achieve goals and find sustainable and manageable coping skills. She is available for through tele-health (on-line sessions) or in-person meetings for private pay clients.
Dr. Danna Gonzalez Casas
Dr. Danna Gonzalez Casas is a Psychological Associate in Clinical Psychology and is supervised by Dr. Stamatia Daroglou.
Dr. Danna obtained her PsyD Clinical Psychology degree from CSPP, Alliant International University and received clinical training in outpatient, inpatient, and community mental health settings. She is bilingual in Spanish and English. She provides psychotherapy to adults and couples either in-person or through telehealth (online) services.
Dr. Danna earned her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from CSPP, Alliant International University and her B.A. in Psychology from San Francisco State University. Dr. Danna is passionate about working with BIPOC and immigrant populations. She has extensive clinical training working with children, adolescents, and adults. She approaches therapy through an Integrative lens, a holistic approach focusing on the Whole person, incorporating a biopsychosocial model that includes person-centered/humanistic therapy, behavioral therapies such as CBT, DBT and ACT, existential therapy, multicultural therapy, and psychodynamic therapy.
Dr. Danna has experience working with trauma, complex trauma, and PTSD, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, life transitions, self-esteem and self-compassion, burnout, and intergenerational trauma. She has completed her dissertation on The BIPOC Experience of Psychedelic-assisted Psychotherapy. Additional areas of interest include feminism and women's issues, psycho-oncology, Veterans mental health, gender-affirming care, and social justice and advocacy.
Our Offices in
La Jolla and Encinitas
