PCH Treatment Center

About

PCH Treatment Center, formally known as Psychological Care and Healing Center, is a clinician-owned and operated residential psychiatric treatment program in West Los Angeles founded by clinical psychologist Jeff Ball. The facility's clinical model is built around a psychosocial treatment philosophy that privileges depth-oriented, relationally grounded psychotherapy over primarily pharmacological intervention. With a staff exceeding fifty doctoral and master's-level psychotherapists, the program offers intensive individual psychodynamic therapy alongside cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, somatic experiencing, sensorimotor psychotherapy, and EMDR modalities. PCH employs an alternative diagnostic model that eschews reductive diagnostic labeling in favor of understanding each client's emotional life within its biographical and relational context — an orientation consonant with depth-psychological traditions. Integrative psychiatry services emphasize minimal and clinically appropriate medication, reflecting a philosophical commitment to psychotherapy as the primary agent of change. The facility also offers neurofeedback, art and music therapy, mindfulness meditation, yoga, and occupational therapy, integrated into a treatment week exceeding forty hours of structured programming. A specialized OCD and anxiety clinic operates within the larger program, directed by clinicians with advanced training in exposure-based interventions.

Depth Orientation

PCH Treatment Center is among the most psychodynamically sophisticated residential programs in the United States, employing an alternative diagnostic model that moves beyond DSM-V categorization to understand emotional states as adaptive responses within a person's life context. With over fifty doctoral and master's-level psychotherapists on staff and a strong commitment to individual psychodynamic therapy, the program reflects genuine depth-psychological orientation — viewing symptoms not as disorders to be suppressed but as meaningful communications from the psyche that require careful clinical attention.

Treatment Modalities

Program Details

Best for

• Complex psychiatric presentations requiring depth psychotherapy
• OCD and anxiety spectrum disorders
• Treatment-resistant depression
• Personality disorders
• Dual diagnosis with co-occurring substance use

Notable Clinicians

• Jeff Ball, Ph.D. — Founder and CEO
• Adriana Westby-Trent, Ph.D. — Chief Clinical Officer
• Lev Gertsik, M.D. — Psychiatrist
• Christopher Mulligan, LCSW — OCD and Anxiety Clinic Director
• Jennifer Goldman, Psy.D. — Assessment Center Director

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