Teen Mental Health Treatment Programs
How We Support You and Your Teen
At Clear, we are enthusiastic to continue Insight’s work by prioritizing your teens mental health and providing curated treatment options to support your teen with the best mental health treatment available. We support your teens in many ways, including the following:
Meet Our Amazing Team
Our teen division team is widely accredited and licensed to provide the best mental health treatment for teens available. We prioritize the mental health of all of our client’s to achieve the best possible outcome for all.
Karissa Provost, LMFT
Clinical Director Teen Division
Karissa Provost is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a grief specialist. She has worked with children, adolescents and adults of all ages in various settings including residential programs for transitional age youth, families impacted by domestic violence, and families at-risk of homelessness. She has had the opportunity to work on high school campus drop-in centers providing mental health care, support, and crisis management. She has worked extensively with at-risk and grieving adolescents and their families throughout Los Angeles in the course of her career.
She has trained and supervised hundreds of pre-licensed therapists as well as grief specialist volunteers who have provided therapy or support services to children, adolescents and their families in community-based organizations, and schools. She has presented at several professional local and national conferences and is a guest lecturer at Antioch University.
Additionally, Karissa has provided grief trainings and workshops to USC medical students, school personnel, parents of grieving children, and has provided on-site grief responses at schools, businesses and religious institutions in the direct aftermath of a death. As a professional speaker, educator, consultant, advocate and clinician, Karissa has dedicated her career to serving individuals and families by providing quality care from a family systems and wholistic approach so individuals and their families can lead healthy, productive, and meaningful lives.
In her spare time, Karissa enjoys being with family and friends, reading, dancing, singing in her car, and being near the ocean.
Curtis Thompson, AMFT
Program Director, El Segundo
Andi Cabello, AMFT
Program Director, Pasadena
Andi Cabello is an associate marriage and family therapist and program director at Clear’s Pasadena location. She is a creative, trauma-informed therapist who has worked with adults, adolescents and families in community settings, schools, private practice, and intensive outpatient programs. She attended University of London, Birkbeck College, and has a joint Master’s in Psychology specializing in marriage and family therapy and professional clinical counseling.
She is focused on collaborating with clients to release the emotional impact of the past and embrace authentic self-expression. Her work is informed by psychodynamic theory and EMDR. In her free time, she enjoys painting, reading and caring for her tiny garden.
Celina Serna, ACSW
Program Director, Van Nuys
Celina is an Associate Clinical Social Worker. Celina graduated with her Bachelor of Arts from CSU, Sacramento and with a Masters in Social Work from CSU, Stanislaus.
Celina has experience working at group homes, school settings, a state correctional facility and an intensive outpatient program for teens and families. She has the experience facilitating groups, individual sessions and family sessions.
Her career path and experiences has allowed her to learn skills such as CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, psychoeducational groups, process groups, and skills groups.
Nessa Esperaza, AMFT
Primary Therapist, El Monte
Nessa Lee Esparza is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, and has a passion for working for teens and young adults. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at UC Santa Cruz, followed by a master’s degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling at Cal State Fresno. Her experiences include providing therapeutic services with teens, young adults, and families in outpatient settings. Nessa Esparza believes in eclectic therapy, which is an approach that draws on multiple theoretical orientations and techniques that is flexible and multifaced to address each patient’s needs. She also values and utilizes humanistic and person centered practices in order to support and guide patient’s through processing and managing their mental health challenges.
Abigail Bonar, AMFT
Primary Therapist, Van Nuys
Abigail is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and an Associate Professional Clinical Counselor who enjoys working with teens and their families.
Prior to entering the counseling profession, Abigail taught and directed at a private preschool for ten years. In this role, Abigail supported dozens of children and families facing a complexity of challenges. Abigail additionally worked with teens in private practice for two years before joining Clear. There she gained experience in a variety of clinical issues such as depression, anxiety, grief, stress management, anger, self-esteem, and relationship dynamics.
Using a holistic approach, Abigail helps her clients regulate emotions, navigate the stressors of life, cultivate healthier relationships, and live more authentically.
Abigail enjoys partnering with a diverse group of clients from all walks of life, and she meets each client right where they are. In the counseling room, Abigail creates a genuine and compassionate space for her clients to unpack their burdens and embark on a transformational journey.
Angela Meadows, ACSW
Primary Therapist, El Segundo
Angela ‘Angie’ is an associate clinical social worker with a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Denver. In 2017, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology and has been working with teens and families ever since. Most of her work experience has been in residential treatment centers for teens with child welfare involvement and complex trauma. Angie likes to use a trauma-informed, strengths-based, and individualized approach with each client. In her free time, she enjoys getting vitamin Sea through beach volleyball and surfing with friends and family.
Melanie Rivas, AMFT
Primary Therapist, Santa Clarita
Yaritza Herrera-Renteria, ACSW
Primary Therapist, Santa Clarita
Yaritza Herrera-Renteria is an Associate Clinical Social Worker, with a passion for working with children, youth, and families. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the California State University of Northridge followed by a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California. Her experience includes providing therapeutic services in outpatient and school settings, addressing a range of emotional and behavioral disorders. She has a passion for working with teens and adults to help them cope and get through difficult challenges. On her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her three dogs, husband, family, and friends. She also enjoys reading, playing board games, building Legos and painting.
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Our professionals will create a customized treatment plan that is exactly right for you or your teen. Goal setting, skill development, building social skills, and more – with Clear Behavioral Health drawing upon Insight’s decades of experience, your teen’s treatment plan will provide your teen with what they need.