Join us for LADN's new Teen Support Group facilitated by clinical psychologist Dr. Samantha Levy! We welcome all teens (13-18) with dysautonomia who live in California to attend this group. If you are a dysautonomia patient over the age of 18, we ask that you attend our monthly adult patient support group, which typically occurs on the 4th Saturday of the month.
Date: Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Time: 4:15-5:15pm
Location: Zoom
Sign up: Sign-ups are required for this meeting - please click the button below. If you have any questions, please email us at LADN@la-dn.org.
About Dr. Samantha Levy:
Samantha Levy, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who received her Ph.D. from Georgia State University in the Child and Family specialty track. During her clinical, child centered internship at UCLA, she became involved with the Pediatric Pain Program. Subsequently, she obtained her postdoctoral training there. Depending on the specific situation, Dr. Levy works either with whole families, individual children/teens/young adults, or parents. She employs an array of psychological orientations (e.g. CBT, play therapy, mindfulness, hypnotherapy, ACT, IFS), to help the children/teens with their pain and any accompanying emotional issues. She helps the families understand the connection between the physical pain and emotional difficulties (mind/body connection). She teaches parenting skills and helps parents facilitate their child’s difficult, courageous journey back to functioning more fully in the world again. Dr. Levy runs multiple parent groups at the nonprofit Creative Healing for Youth in Pain (CHYP). She is also a contributor to the CHYP parent blog.
