Dr. Oded 

Welcome to my website.  I am a licensed psychologist (PSY 21162), a play therapist-supervisor, a trauma-informed therapist, and a mindfulness teacher. I work with individuals who seek to cultivate mindfulness, gain deeper insight into their emotional patterns through psychodynamic therapy, and learn to become less reactive to life's stressors.  

I teach at UCSD-Extension and serve as an adjunct faculty member in the Applied Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at The Chicago School and the online MA Clinical Counseling Program at Alliant International University.  I also provide supervision to therapy associates.  My diverse background includes serving as a medic and an aviation physiology instructor at the IAF, working as a psychotherapist, a clinical lead, and a supervisor of interns at Jewish Family Service of San Diego, and working with children diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy.  Additionally, I have experience in counseling at elementary and middle schools, working with college students at Cal. State San Marcos, supervising psychological assistants, working at a psychiatric crisis residential treatment center, and evaluating the cognitive, emotional, and social development of preschoolers.

In 1996, I graduated cum laude from Haifa University with a bachelor's degree and later moved to San Diego to pursue my graduate studies.  I hold a doctorate in clinical psychology with psychodynamic emphasis from the California School of Professional Psychology (2004) and postdoctoral certificates in play therapy (UC San Diego - Extension, 2006), psychoanalytic psychotherapy (Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2009), Jewish mindfulness meditation teacher training (Institute for Jewish Spirituality, 2017), and traumatic stress studies (Trauma Research Foundation, 2021).  

I have been licensed in California since 2006. I am a member of the Association for Play Therapy (A4PT) and hold an associate membership with the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center.