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rating all factors affecting your mental health, including your unique story and psychology, medications, health status, and lifestyle factors. Although her practice focuses on medication management, and she does not provide weekly therapy at this time, she strives to bring both her experience as a therapist and a psychopharmacologist to your care. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders and unipolar depression. Dr. LeMaster studied Biology at Stanford University, receiving her B.S. in 2001. While at Stanford, she participated in several international humanitarian projects, including to Papua New Guinea and Russia. After a year as a research assistant at a cardiac surgery lab at Stanford, she attended medical school at Keck School of Medicine at USC, Los Angeles, CA, receiving her MD in 2006. In medical school, she designed and implemented the Medical Spanish curriculum for the medical students at Keck. She did her residency at Boston University, in Boston MA. In her final year of residency, she did electives in psychodynamic therapy at the Danielson Institute in Boston and the Woman’s Stress Disorder Treatment Team at the VA of Boston. She finished her residency in 2010. She became board certified in 2012 and worked as a staff psychiatrist at The Berkeley Therapy Institute from 2012 to 2016. She began working at Community Psychiatry in May 2016.

ity, San Bernardino. She graduated in 2001 from the Western University of Health Sciences with a Doctor of Osteopathy degree, general psychiatry residency training at Loma Linda University Medical Center. She served as a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She is interested in combining elements of therapy during medication management sessions and is passionate about fighting the stigma associated with mental illness.

Dr. Miyamoto will no longer be seeing patients at our Oakland office. She will continue seeing patients at our Walnut Creek office and is now accepting patients at our Berkeley office. 

psychiatry at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, where she served as Chief Resident from July 2008-June 2009. She has taught as a Clinical Assistant Instructor at SUNY’s School of Medicine and biomedical Sciences and has been published in Psychiatric Times. Dr. Singh also holds a Masters of Public Health from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

o decades. Jonathan promotes mental health wellness by combining talk therapy, medication management, diet, exercise, and understanding your life’s narrative/story. He recognizes the importance of working against the stigma tied to mental illness and strives to provide a supportive setting for individuals regardless of gender, orientation, culture, race or religion. After he completed his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia and Guilford College, he received his adult psychiatric mental health education from the University of California, San Diego. While at the University of Virginia, Jonathan co-founded the International Healthcare Outreach Organization with trips to El Salvador. He has also participated in multiple Habitat for Humanity projects.

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t 448.0pt;”>Laura Compton, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She has more than a decade of experience working with clients with complex acute and chronic mental health needs. Laura strives to blend science- and evidence-based diagnostic and treatment strategies with the Recovery Model of care, which sees the client as a unique person rather than a constellation of symptoms and helps clients achieve their goals through shared decision-making and shared responsibility.

Laura is a member of the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), and is committed to creating a supportive, affirming, and empowering environment for clients of all sizes, genders, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, faiths, ages, and abilities.  

Laura completed her Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (MSN) graduate education at University of California, San Francisco, and her undergraduate nursing education at Community College of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh, PA) and California University of Pennsylvania. She is also a veteran of the United States Air Force and enjoys sharing her passion for mental health as a Clinical Instructor in Cal State East Bay’s School of Nursing.