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Jenifer Rocio

(Bilingual - Spanish)

Jenifer is our Office Manager and receptionist. She interfaces with clients, schedules appointments, manages insurance and billing, clerical tasks, filing, and genreal office administration.


	Sabath and Associates 1225 W. 190th St., Suite 200 Gardena, CA 90248 (310) 851-6020 Fax: (310) 323-6888
			Cliff Sabath, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist, QME drcliff@mac.com

	Cliff Sabath, Ph.D. • Psychotherapist Individuals, Couples • Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) Workers Comp Evaluations and Treatment • Expert Witness Civil and Criminal Court Dr. Sabath has more than 35 years experience treating individuals and couples. He also serves as an expert witness in court, with extensive experience in the Workers Compensation system, as well as civil and criminal court testimony.

Most of our sessions are now done through telehealth (video chat) on the Zoom platform. We recommend you download the Zoom app for either your desktop computer or your cellphone. This is very effective and convenient, it avoids traffic and travel time, and can be done from the privacy of your home, or office.

However if you have a need to do in-person sessions at our office, this may be arranged, Prior to COVID we did all our sessions at our office for over 20 years.

Our Professional Staff

Our staff also includes five highly skilled psychotherapists, two of whom are bilingual-Spanish, as well as a consulting psychiatrist for medication management:


	Ed Padilla, LCSW ____(Bilingual - Spanish) Mr. Padilla has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for 25 years. In addition to his work with adults, he has extensive experience in treating troubled teenagers, having worked as a therapist in the state Juvenile Justice system.


	Barbara Linares, LCSW ____ (Bilingual - Spanish) Ms. Linares has worked extensively with children and their parents, including children with developmental disabilities, *regarding aassesment, treatment and parenting consultation. She also works with individual adult clients.*


	Michael Montecillo, LCSW Mr. Montecillo has 10 years of experience working in mental health serving a diverse population, which includes children, youth, adults, couples, and families. He has experience assisting clients to manage issues related to depression, anxiety, trauma and relationships.


	Jim Stump, LMFT Mr. Stump has many years of experience working as a psychotherapist with individuals, couples, teens and families. He has experience assisting clients with various issues, including relationships, work, trauma, depression, anxiety, marital conflict, parent-child conflict, grief and loss, adjustment to life changes, and other problem situations and conditions.


	Scott Sabath, LMFT Scott has 20 years of experience as an empathetic and caring therapist. He uses techniques such as Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) and Energy therapy to help people heal from trauma, whether the trauma occurred early in life or more recently. His experience includes working with ADHD, and helping people deal with complex family relationship issues, as well as with marital or partner relationship issues.


	Ehab Yacoub, M.D. __Consulting Psychiatrist Dr. Yacoub is a psychiatrist colleague whose office is in the same location as ours. We refer patients to him for evaluation if we believe that they may benefit from psychiatric medication. Typically such medicines address alleviating depression, anxiety, and/or insomnia. This makes it convenient for those clients to be able to receive psychotherapy and medication management at the same location.

	Our Office Staff:

1225 W. 190th St. Suite 200 Gardena, CA 90248

Corner of 190th St. and Normandie Ave.

Next to 405 Fwy, at Normandie exit.

Enter parking lot from either street.