Dr. Sophie Rosseel is a Santa Monica-based, UCLA-trained psychiatrist specializing in depression, anxiety, and women’s mental health (perinatal/post-partum depression and anxiety.)

Dr. Rosseel graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Neuroscience from UC Los Angeles. She attended UC Davis School of Medicine and graduated with the distinguished honors of Alpha Omega Alpha, Gold Humanism Honor Society, and the School of Medicine Medal, the highest award given by the school for overall academic excellence. She attended UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute for her internship and residency in Psychiatry, where she served as chief resident in psychotherapy and received the 2020 Outstanding Housestaff Teaching Award. She currently works in private practice and served as the Associate Program Director of the UCLA Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Concentration until 2024.

Psychotherapy Training

Dr. Rosseel has received extensive and specialized training in psychotherapy, specifically in trauma-related disorders. She practices relationally-oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy, with a focus on experiential psychotherapy. She specializes in working with individuals with anxiety, depression, attachment trauma. She completed the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Concentration at UCLA and the New Center for Psychoanalysis two year program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

 

Pharmacology Training

Dr. Rosseel has completed specialized training in the pharmacologic management of anxiety, depression, and women’s mental health (including pregnancy-related symptoms and post-partum depression and anxiety).

 

Teaching

Dr. Rosseel has a passion for medical education. She served as Chief Resident of Psychotherapy during her psychiatric residency and was awarded the 2020 Psychiatry Housestaff Teaching Award. She also completed the Clinician-Educator Concentration within the UCLA Psychiatry Residency Program, and she served as the Associate Program Director of the UCLA Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Concentration for psychiatry residents from 2022-2024.

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:

“Psychotherapy”. UCLA School of Medicine. Behavior and Psychiatry, Scientific Foundations of Medicine. August 2022.

 “Unimaginable Imaging”. ACP Northern California Conference. October 2015.

 “Lost and Found”. UC Davis School of Medicine Commencement. June 2017.

 “Evolving Standards of Decency: Juvenile Risk Assessment, Treatment Amenability, and the Courts”. AACAP. October 2018.

“In Pursuit of Magic: A Psychiatric Perspective”. UCLA Psychiatry Grand Rounds. January 2019.

 “Mean Girls (and Boys): A Clinician’s Guide for Addressing School Violence”. APA. May 2019.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

RESEARCH PAPERS (PEER REVIEWED)

1.     Wu P-S, Phillip J, Khatau S, Chen W-C, Stirman J, Rosseel S, Tschudi K, Van Patten J, Wong M, Gupta S, Baras A, Leek J, Maitra A, Wirtz D. Evolution of cellular morpho-phenotype in cancer metastasis. Sci. Rep. 5, 18437; dor:10.1038/srep18437 (2015). 

2.     Burns A, Halpin L, Rosseel S. “Allergic to clozapine: A case of clozapine-induced eosinophilia with pleural effusions followed by pancreatitis on clozapine rechallenge” Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology 40, no. 2 (2020): 199-200.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1.     Rosseel S, McBride A, Kelly M. (2020) Understanding and Addressing School Sexual Violence. In Safe Passages: A Guide for Addressing School Violence (pp. 91-111). Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

1.     Rosseel S. "On transitions in training: Boost bioethics education." Academic Medicine 93.4 (2018): 524-525.

EDITORIALS

1.     McBride A, Unger M, Hall J, Rosseel S: An Early Start: Forensic Psychiatry Opportunities Throughout Training. The AAPL Newsletter. Vol. 43, No. 3: pp 20 and 35, September 2018.