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Steven Tate
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Steven Tate serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor specializing in addiction medicine within the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago and his master's in medical statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropic Medicine. He then completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania and his fellowship in addiction medicine at Stanford. Dr. Tate sees patients in the Stanford Addiction Medicine/Dual Diagnosis Clinic and in the hospital on the Inpatient Addiction Medicine Consult Service. He is interested in teaching evidence-based addiction medicine and translating evidence into practice to improve the care of patients with substance use disorders.
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Allison L. Thompson, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Allison Thompson specializes in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety and depression, and severe mental illness. She has practiced at Stanford since 2008. She has a special interest in the treatment of underrepresented and underserved populations, such as people of color.
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Aubrey Toole, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Aubrey Toole is a licensed psychologist whose research and clinical work has focused on the treatment and prevention of eating and body image problems and the potential benefits of compassion- and acceptance-based interventions. Dr. Toole further specializes in treating eating and body image concerns in high performance athletes at Stanford. Clinically, she works with a range of presentations, including eating and body image concerns, mood and anxiety difficulties, interpersonal problems, and post-traumatic stress, as well as rigid perfectionism, harsh self-critical thinking, and shame. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Psychology with Highest Honors at UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Emory University. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Emory University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, where she worked with children, adolescents, and young adults with eating disorders, emotion regulation difficulties, anxiety, depression, OCD, and PTSD. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University’s School of Medicine within the Psychosocial Treatment Clinic, where her training focused on evidence-based treatments for eating disorders, anxiety and mood disorders, couples, and high-performance athletes, as well as clinical supervision.
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Lénie Torregrossa, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Lénie Torregrossa is a board-certified clinical psychologist with the Stanford Health Care Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Clinic, the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic in Palo Alto, and the INSPIRE Clinic. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Torregrossa was previously a research psychologist in the brain imaging and EEG lab at the University of San Francisco (UCSF).
Dr. Torregrossa specializes in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, psychosis, and serious mental illness. Her approach to treatment is person centered and recovery focused, grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and informed by acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). She emphasizes collaboration, values-based living, and meaningful functional goals.
Dr. Torregrossa's research focuses on risk and protective factors for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, self-disturbances in schizophrenia, and improving treatments for psychosis.
Dr. Torregrossa has published articles in many peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA Network Open, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, and Frontiers in Psychiatry. She has presented to her peers at international, national, and regional meetings, including the European Conference on Schizophrenia Research, the International Consortium for Schizotypy Research, the Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology.
Dr. Torregrossa is a member of the Schizophrenia International Research Society and the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
