Staff
Insight Treatment Team is committed to providing effective and innovative treatment for teens and families. Our multi disciplinary team is comprised of PhD’s, LCSW, and Masters Level and CADAC level counselors. Ancillary staff includes Psychiatrist, Fitness Trainers, Tutors, and other specialty therapists. Our pool of specialists allows Insight to provide innovative and comprehensive services for each individual.
Anthony Lopez, CAS
Program Director & Founder / CEO
Anthony has over 25 years of experience working with adolescents struggling with substance abuse and behavioral problems as a Certified Addiction Specialist and an Interventionist. Trained by The Johnson Institute, the Bradshaw Institute, as well as the Speare-Raiter Systemic Family Intervention Model, Anthony has provided his expertise and support to thousands of teens and their families. Before creating Insight Treatment Program, Anthony founded Discovery Behavioral Health, and managed in-patient treatment programs for adolescents. Today, Anthony specializes in working with teens that have failed in other programs using a combination of behavioral and experiential techniques.
Lynne Friedman-Gell, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist PSY #22107. Clinical Supervisor and Program Therapist.
Lynne is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides supervision and psychological services including individual and group therapy at insight Treatment Center. Lynne’s specialties include addiction, eating disorders, pathological gambling, and attachment/ relational issues in adult and adolescent populations. Lynne has worked extensively with dual-diagnosis clients with co-occurring disorders such as personality, mood, anxiety, and self-harming behaviors along with addiction and/or eating disorders. Lynne has been certified in Addiction Studies since 1996 and involved in the recovery community since 1992. In her private practice, in Studio City, CA, she finds practical utilization for her research into adolescent problem behaviors and resiliency as well as her research into the interrelationship between attachment, quality of life, spirituality, and time clean.
Lynne received her Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and completed 2 years of advanced training in Contemporary Psychoanalytic-Psychodynamic Theory and Practice at the Wright Institute Los Angeles where she also trained with the Susan B. Krevoy Eating Disorders Program. Lynne is authorized by the State of California to provide treatment for Pathological Gambling to individuals and their families. Lynne works from an integrated style, which includes psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, spiritual and existential modalities with a goal of helping the individual and family obtain healthier and more sustainable relationships with self and others. Her passion is towards helping addicts and alcoholics achieve recovery of body, mind, emotion, and spirit in order to live healthy and fulfilling productive lives.
Joanne Barron, Psy.D. PSB 34910, CADC , National Outreach Director
Dr. Barron holds a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology and is also a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor through CAADAC. Her vast experience working with adolescents includes helping to start some of the first Los Angeles teen alcohol and drug programs. Joanne is one of the founding members of WAAT (Women’s Association for Addiction Treatment) as well as AYARN (Adolescent & Young Adult Resource Network). Dedicated to helping parents navigate through problems with their teens, Joanne is passionate about providing quality treatment. Additionally trained as an interventionist, Joanne has been a frequent speaker and consultant for local schools and organizations.
Daniel Leon, L.C.S.W
Daniel Leon, LCSW is a graduate of the master’s degree program in social work at the University of Southern California. Daniel has an extensive background working with with adolescents for almost 25 years as a therapist, program director and consultant. He is co-founder of Insight Treatment Programs-Pasadena which began in 1995, specializing in adolescent treatment and its Intensive Out Patient (IOP). He is also in private practice in Pasadena, effectively treating such problems and/or disorders as addiction, codependency, depression, ADHD, anxiety, family conflict and self esteem. He offers a diverse clinical staff committed to a mindful practice, with an emphasis on the inner process of healing; aiding others through acceptance, compassion and authenticity.
Randi Drasin, RD
Randi Drasin is a registered dietitian, a certified personal fitness trainer, as well as a gymnastics and PE coach. Specializing in weight management and physical fitness, Randi has been providing enrichment to Insight Treatment Program for teens since 2007, and more recently has joined the eating disorder program. As the owner of Randi’s Fitness for Kids, an after school program designed to enrich the lives of children through fitness and arts, Randi has gained over 16 years of experience working with kids and teens. She is currently earning her Masters degree in Nutrition at California State University at Northridge (CSUN). She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and sits on the Executive Board of the California Dietetic Associations, Los Angeles District. She is certified in Weight Management for Children and Teens.