Psychiatrist
6345 Balboa Blvd.
Ste 365, Building 3
Encino, CA
91316
Top reviews
Dr Niazi is the best. He is knowledgeable, dependable, and committed to helping his patients.
Office was clean, staff friendly, snacks for kids. Love this office and team!
Karen Mendez, MD, is a board-certified adult psychiatrist and board-eligible child and adolescent psychiatrist at Adelpha Psychiatric Group in Encino, California.
Dr. Mendez graduated from UCLA with a degree in Psychobiology. She spent four years working at the UCLA Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program, providing evaluations, assessments, and multidisciplinary therapy for children with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism. She empowered children with cognitive, academic, social, and self-care skills through one-on-one discrete trial training, direct instruction, response pivotal training, and applied behavioral analysis.
Dr. Mendez obtained her medical degree at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and stayed at UCLA to complete a psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, serving as the Program Chief Fellow. During her fellowship, she completed the national curriculum in reproductive psychiatry and became a certified facilitator of the Circle of Security International Early Intervention Program for Parents and Children (an attachment-based, reflective parenting program).
Dr. Mendez has specialized training in mood disorders, reproductive psychiatry, anxiety disorders, ADHD, trauma-related disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders. With a holistic approach, she utilizes evidence-based psychopharmacology and various psychotherapy modalities, including interpersonal psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), focused family therapy, and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Dr. Mendez is a native of Lima, Peru, and fluent in Spanish.
Medication Management
Addiction
ADHD
Adult Psychiatry
Anxiety
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Bipolar Disorder
Child Psychiatry
Couples Therapy
Depression
Eating Disorders
Gender Dysphoria Disorder
Grief and Stress Management
Mood Disorders
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Panic Disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Psychiatric Evaluation
Psychotherapy
Psychotic Disorders
Reproductive Psychiatry
Schizoaffective Disorder
Schizophrenia
Womens Mental Health
Telehealth
Marriage and Family Therapy
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Location
Adelpha Psychiatric Group
6345 Balboa Blvd.
Ste 365, Building 3
Encino, CA, 91316
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NPI Number
1992266332
Reviews
Dr Niazi is the best. He is knowledgeable, dependable, and committed to helping his patients.
Office was clean, staff friendly, snacks for kids. Love this office and team!
Really helpful and knowledgeable!
Life savers truly from the nursing staff to an amazing doctor pulled me through a very dark time and continue to help me heal. Truly God sent. Thank you all at Adelpha Psychiatric Group for being amazing.
always enlightening
Very thoughtful & attentive! Always quick to help when I reach out :)
Good session.
Dr. Eipl is the best! She has helped me tremendously and continues to help me make strides in my healing.
Dr. Niazi genuinely cares for our son and is incredibly kind and supportive. Best Dr. We have ever had for our family
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I am Lily’s father and we are thrilled with Dr. Niazi.
Dr Niazi is kind, caring, compassionate, accessible, responsive to patient portal messages, and very knowledgeable. I trust him and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him to others.
