Ruben Ramirez, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

CA License #: 82995

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As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), I provide a multi-systemic and bio-psycho-social approach to working with each of my clients.

This includes providing them with an individualized treatment process to address their unique needs, circumstances, and areas of negative impact.

I have 10+ years of experience supporting adolescents and adults across various systems of care and throughout the many stages and challenges of life.

I am skilled at working with clients with a variety of presenting challenges, including anxiety and mood disorders, anger management, marital and family conflict, and LGBTQ+ matters, to name a few.

As a clinician, my first goal is to partner with each client to draw out individual strengths to aid in addressing areas of impact and increase overall well-being and function.

My second goal is not to tell the client what they need/should do but to assist them in identifying what is right for them through education, empowerment, self-advocacy, and appropriate symptom management.

My therapeutic style pulls from my graduate-level education from USC and my professional experience, and it incorporates interventions from evidence-based practices such as CBT, TF-CBT, DBT, PCIT, Psychodynamic, and more.

Interventions are delivered through a very natural and comfortable conversational exchange that allows the client to gain insight and a better understanding of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Let us partner together to achieve the most out of life in an enriching and fulfilling way.

Education

  • Master’s degree in Mental Health from University of Southern California

  • Bachelor’s degree in Sociology with a Minor in Education and Applied Psychology from University of California, Santa Barbara

Training and Certifications

  • Non-Violent Crisis Intervention – Crisis Prevention Institute 

  • Assessing Elder Abuse in Clinical Setting – University of New England

  • Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention – SAMHSA

  • Cognitive Processing Therapy – Medical University of South Carolina

  • Motivational Interviewing – University of Southern California

  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Medical University of South Carolina

  • First Aid/CPR Certified

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Ventura County Behavioral Health

  • Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) Trainer

  • Adult Attachment Interview – The Insight Center

Specialties

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • LGBTQ+

  • Anger Management 

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Areas of Experience

  • ADHD

  • Adoption

  • Anger Management

  • Anxiety

  • Behavioral Issues

  • Body Image

  • Career Counseling

  • Child or Adolescent

  • Codependency

  • Coping Skills

  • Depression

  • Divorce

  • Emotional Disturbance

  • Family Conflict

  • Grief

  • Learning Disabilities

  • Life Coaching

  • Life Transitions

  • Men's Issues

  • Oppositional Defiance

  • Parenting

  • Peer Relationships

  • School Issues

  • Self-Harming

  • Self Esteem

  • Stress

  • Suicidal Ideation

  • Transgender

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Mood Disorders

  • Thinking Disorders

  • Sexuality

  • LGBTQ+