General Psychiatry and Psychology (Adult)
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Roxanne Rassti
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioRoxanne Rassti, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a faculty member of the Stanford Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, where she provides didactic instruction and supervision in forensic assessment, violence risk evaluation, and criminal responsibility.
A licensed forensic and clinical psychologist, Dr. Rassti has more than a decade of specialized experience conducting forensic evaluations within courts, secure psychiatric hospitals, and justice-involved settings. Her evaluation practice spans competency to stand trial, not guilty by reason of insanity, Mentally Disordered Offender commitments, mental health diversion, mitigation, juvenile transfer, and Franklin resentencing, as well as structured violence and sexual-offense risk assessment. She has provided expert testimony in hundreds of court proceedings and parole hearings across California.
Dr. Rassti is co-owner of Central Coast Evaluation Services, where she conducts criminal and civil forensic evaluations, serves as a Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME), and performs independent medical evaluations. POST-certified, she also specializes in public-safety work, including fitness-for-duty determinations, pre-employment psychological screenings, and trainings for police departments. She previously served for eight years as a Senior Psychologist Specialist in Forensics at the California Department of State Hospitals - Atascadero, evaluating high-acuity patients with severe mental illness and co-occurring forensic-legal needs.
Committed to training forensic clinicians, Dr. Rassti has supervised and provided didactic instruction for Stanford psychiatry fellows and psychology predoctoral interns in forensic assessment, report writing, and testimony preparation. She holds adjunct faculty appointments in psychology at California Polytechnic State University, where she teaches forensic psychology and abnormal psychology, and at Colorado State University.
Her scholarship addresses emerging issues at the intersection of psychology and law, including a forthcoming chapter on deepfake evidence and authenticity challenges for judges and juries in Advances in Psychology and Law (Springer). She is a member of the American Psychology-Law Society and the American Psychological Association, and volunteers with the California Western Innocence & Justice Clinic.
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Angharad Rees-Jones
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Angharad Rees-Jones is a clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. At Stanford, she works on the adult inpatient psychiatric units, providing psychological assessment, brief intervention, and multidisciplinary consultation for individuals with serious mental illness.
Dr. Rees-Jones has extensive experience working in acute and complex medical and psychiatric settings, including inpatient burn care. Her work with burn survivors focused on supporting patients with traumatic injuries, adjustment, and recovery following life-altering events. Prior to joining Stanford, she also developed and led innovative programs including the Whole Person Care program in Kings County and the Mental Health Diversion program in Tulare County. She has worked as a consultant to Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams and has expertise in conducting LPS evaluations and risk assessments. Prior to her work in the United States, Dr. Rees-Jones trained and practiced as a forensic psychologist within the United Kingdom NHS and Prison Service, working with high-risk individuals and developing expertise in risk assessment, complex presentations, and the interface between mental health and the legal system.
Her clinical interests include serious mental illness, suicidality and self-harm, trauma, and supporting patients through high-acuity transitions of care using a compassion focused approach. She also spearheaded the integration of a facility dog program within inpatient settings to support patient engagement, emotional regulation, and therapeutic connection. Her therapeutic approach is person-centered, recovery-oriented, and trauma-informed, integrating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). She emphasizes practical skill-building, values-based action, and collaboration within interdisciplinary teams. Dr. Rees-Jones is also actively involved in teaching and mentorship, providing supervision and training for psychology practicum students and interdisciplinary education for medical staff. Her work is focused on improving access to psychologically informed care within inpatient and acute psychiatric settings. -
James H Reich
Adjunct Professor, Psych/General Psychiatry and Psychology (Adult)
BioI attended U.C. Berkeley for my B.S. degree, the University of Colorado for my MD and U.C. Davis for my psychiatric residency and did a fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Yale. I have been faculty at the University of Iowa, Harvard and Brown. I have published over a hundred papers in peer reviewed journals, mostly in the areas of anxiety and personality. I also founded a medical society, the Association for Research in Personality Disorders (ARPD).
Currently I am in private practice in San Francisco and teach at Stanford and UCSF. My treatment approaches for psychotherapy include CBT and mindfulness. I also do psychopharmacology which I have taught UCSF for many years.
I am also a board certified forensic psychiatrist in private practice focusing largely on civil cases. -
Jenae Aesha Richardson
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Jenae Richardson is a Clinical Assistant Professor and a CA Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the INSPIRE Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She also works in the acute psychiatric inpatient units at Stanford Hospital. She specializes in utilizing evidence-based treatments (EBTs) to treat individuals with psychosis and has worked with this population across inpatient and outpatient settings. She is passionate about improving the dissemination and implementation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp), and at the INSPIRE Clinic, she leads CBTp trainings for mental health professionals and provides CBTp to individuals with psychosis. Dr. Richardson completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Arizona’s Early Psychosis Intervention Center and her postdoctoral fellowship at Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. She obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology from Long Island University Post and conducted research exploring barriers to implementing CBTp in the United States.
