Summary
Liya Levanda, PsyD (she/her) is a licensed psychologist in the state of Nevada and a licensed clinical psychologist in California. Liya is passionate about working with college students and communities andhas trained in community mental health, school, hospital, and university settings.
Her integrative therapeutic approach combines cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, Bronfenbrennerian, feminist-multicultural, and intersectional frameworks. Liya is adaptive to each student; working toensure therapy is a supportive space, centering each student’s goals, and collaborating on the best way to achieve them. Her clinical interests include self-compassion, developing coping and emotion regulation tools, exploring gender and sexuality, and workingwith Jewish students.
Liya earned her BA in psychology with a minor in sociology from Sonoma State University. She then completed both her MA and PsyD at the California School of Professional Psychology in the San Francisco BayArea. Her research has been focused on intersections of traditional masculinity and rejection sensitivity, as well as coping mechanisms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In balancing personal and professional life, Liya engages in self-care by dancing, hiking with her rescue pup, spending time with loved ones, and playing video games. A bicultural, bilingual, first-generationAmerican who identifies California as her home state, she is often cold here in Reno and will be seen wearing many layers in the chillier parts of the year!