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Clinic Phone:
(650) 433-3863 (24hr. Voicemail)

Clinic Location:
5150 El Camino Real, Suite 20, Building D, Los Altos, CA 94022

Our Staff

Matthew Cordova, Ph.D.

Dr. Cordova is an Assistant Professor at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology.  He completed his graduate training at the University of Kentucky, his clinical internship at the VA Palo Alto, and a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Cordova is a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialty in applying empirically-supported interventions to assist medical patients and their families. He conducts research on how people adjust to life threatening illness and he has an interest in developing and researching the effectiveness of early interventions to prevent the development of problems in patients who have recently been traumatized.

Josef Ruzek, Ph.D.

Dr. Josef I. Ruzek is an Associate Professor at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. Dr. Ruzek has a longstanding interest in cognitive-behavioral interventions for alcohol problems and PTSD.  He is an editor of the text Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Trauma, co-chair of the Early Intervention special interest group of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and a writer for an upcoming manual on Psychological First Aid following exposure to disaster/terrorist attack.

Graduate Students

The students assisting Dr. Ruzek and Dr. Cordova are graduate students studying for their Ph.D. in Clinic Psychology at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Redwood City, CA. These students have made the treatment of trauma a priority in their graduate careers and plan to pursue professional careers in related fields.

For further information regarding questions, concerns, or complaints about the research or your rights as a research study subject, please contact the Institutional Review Board (IRB) Chair by mail at Palo Alto University, 1791 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 or by phone at (650) 43313827.