Conscious Culture Psychology Clinic Inc. was founded by Anita Mihecoby, Phd. Dr. Anita Mihecoby is Native American and Chicana; born in Oklahoma; a member of the Comanche Nation Tribe; and raised in Los Angeles County, Pico Rivera. She is a licensed psychologist registered by the California Board of Psychology and certified by the National Register of Health Psychologists. She earned her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology from New Mexico State University in 2014. Her clinical training and research interests focused on Indigenous Ways of Knowing Health & Being Well, a culturally distinct philosophy that functions as the foundation of the holistic framework she promotes in her therapeutic approach.  

Dr. Mihecoby aspires to provide training to mental health clinicians and develop a clinic that offers therapies based on Conscious Centered Psychotherapy, a theoretical orientation based in science and validated by the sacred wisdom of the laws of nature and health; a holistic framework of health aimed at facilitating a rise in consciousness evidenced in cognitive behavior that is intentional and motivated by one’s innate drive toward balance and harmony.  

Dr. Mihecoby provides individual and group therapy, psychological evaluations, consultations and supervision. She is currently finishing the development of an Integrative Behavioral Health program at the Fudge Family’s Acute Rehabilitation Center, Hoag Memorial Hospital Newport Beach. She has experience in behavioral health integration, private practice, community health, and multi-disciplinary program development. She served two-year terms as President for Section IV Alaska Native/ American Indian/ Indigenous Women of Division 35 Society for the Psychology of Women of the American Psychological Association and Mentorship Chair. She developed the first year long virtual Native to Native Mentorship Program of the Society of Indian Psychologists. Dr. Mihecoby has continued to present and discuss the importance of the term she highlighted during her tenure as mentorship chair, Sacred Mentorship. Sacred Mentorship is a trauma informed approach designed to make space for confronting the ongoing trauma Native psychologists continue to experience in academia and their careers in the field of psychology. She recently presented at a virtual roundtable on Sacred Mentorship at the virtual APA Conference 2020. She also recently co-authored a handbook titled Lighting the Path to Licensure: A Handbook on the EPPP for Native Candidates. Dr. Mihecoby views her unique doctoral training experience under the mentorship and academic advisement of a Washo tribal medicine woman a pivotal demonstration of the power of Indigenizing the academy in one’s journey toward liberation. Liberation in work, lived experience, and ability to live in balance and in harmony as an energetically interconnected being. This powerful demonstration has inspired persistence in the mission of spreading the sacred knowledge CCPC has to share about living in peace, balance, and love as a vital approach to mental health. 

Dr. Mihecoby is passionate about serving the diverse population of Los Angeles and providing a holistic and decolonizing approach to mental health. CCPC has goals of becoming an integrative health clinic with multi-disciplinary and alternative health providers and a post-doctoral training center for pre-licensed psychology interns.