Ruby E. Negrete, Psy.D.

Dr. Negrete earned her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She also holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family therapy with the Latinx community from Pepperdine University: GSEP.

Dr. Negrete completed her pre-doctoral internship at an APA-accredited community mental health clinic in Los Angeles, California providing mental health services to children, teens, and adults. Her training focused on providing psychotherapy to help individuals manage their symptoms of severe mental health disorders and help them live at their fullest. She also conducted multi-family groups as part of the PIER program, an early intervention program offering evidence-based treatment for youth and young adults experiencing their first episode of psychosis.

Dr. Negrete completed two practicums where she worked with children, adolescents, and adults in private inpatient / outpatient mental health clinics. In her Master’s practicum, her training focused on providing individual, couples, and family psychotherapy. In her pre-doctoral psychodiagnostic practicum, Dr. Negrete focused on administering individualized psychological assessments to children, teens, and adults to aid mental health treatment and diagnose clients accurately.

Supervised by Dr. Kimberly Fitzgerald, Ph.D. - PSY31536

Dr. Negrete is bi-lingual and can offer services in English and Spanish with a cultural competency background in the Latinx culture. Dr. Negrete has gained significant experience treating an array of mental health disorders such as anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders, emotional regulation, grief, depression, complex trauma, relationship issues, intimate partner violence, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and culturally informed interventions.

Her approach to therapy uses evidence-based methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Psychodynamic, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Existential Theory, and a Humanistic approach. Dr. Negrete has training in administering psychological and neurological assessments to help with treatment planning and measuring client’s cognitive abilities, personality functioning, and executive functioning. Dr. Negrete also has training in providing telehealth mental health services to children and adults.

Her specialties also include pediatric clinical psychology, working with children, teens, and families on managing emotional regulation, trauma, family dynamics, parent-child relationships, and family communication. Dr. Negrete specializes in treating intimate partner violence, specifically, men who are victims and survivors of abuse in a relationship. She has conducted her research study as part of her dissertation to help bring light to a community of individuals who deserve more understanding, resources, and clinical help. Dr. Negrete is very active in raising awareness about men who are victims of intimate partner violence through presentations at Pacific Oaks College, School of Cultural & Family Psychology.

Dr. Negrete believes mental health treatment should always be tailored to the client with the client’s healing as a priority.

“We are humans, going through the human experience, I am simply the vessel to help heal and guide my clients through these experiences with my psych toolbox.”

American Psychological Association (APA)

Dr. Negrete is a native-born San Diegan. She grew up in a small town in North County San Diego and although she has moved to Orange County and Los Angeles County throughout her academic career to follow her goals, one thing always rings true; there is no place like home. In her free time, Dr. Negrete enjoys watching the newest movies debuting at her favorite theater, writing poetry, a fun car-karaoke session, and admiring the beautiful sunsets and night skies of San Diego.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. (Henry David Thoreau)