92% of Dr. Jayn's clients complete treatment, within 3 - 6 months.
100% complete severe complex trauma treatment within 3 - 9 months
Dr. Jayn Rajandran PsyD, has lived, received her education, worked, and traveled to many countries in the world. She has schooled in the United Kingdom, and the United States, with some years in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Scholarships dictated which schools Jayn had to go to.
While working for the world's largest conglomerate, based out of Germany, she was involved in the corporate restructuring aspects of the mergers and acquisition segment of the company. This enabled her to travel for work and leisure to many countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, and the Middle East. Her past corporate management work experience, as well as her undergraduate degrees in accounting and economics, from England has come in handy when she works with top level management EAP cases, and her organizational development work, in Silicon Valley.
She was the recipient of the 2005 Frowein GmbH scholarship from Germany, an educational scholarship that enabled her to work on completing 2 masters simultaneously, after moving to the Bay Area, where her family has been living. Her masters are in marriage and family therapy, and the second is in industrial and organizational psychology. She graduated top 5% of her graduating class which enabled her to land 3 internships for her graduate, and post-grad clinical training. She decided to accept all 3 offers to do her post-grad training so she can get the best training to sharpen her clinical skills, experience and exposure.
Due to her international and worldly experience, she was handpicked to work on federal international drug trafficking, and white-collar criminal justice cases for federal pre-trial, federal probation, and parole. This then opened the doors for her to start working with inmates of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Her trauma training came from working with pregnant inmates who wanted to change their lives around, in becoming the best possible mothers to their children. This involved a lot of attachment work with their families of origin, strengthening the family unit, and spousal system, separation, divorce, trauma ,and abuse. She did this work in collaboration with Oakland Children's Hospital, and the Alameda Superior court- family and juvenile department.
To date, she still claims that working with children especially teens as the most enriching clinical experience. It's apparent that the benefits of starting the self-work early, has it's advantages. She has a unique way in which to relate to teens by creating a collaborative therapeutic relationship, and uses humor to facilitate change. She also found that children were not as set in their ways, were willing to try interventions, and were not as resistant to change, when something was not working for them. When they changed, they were able to see immediately the corresponding change in their system . This motivated them to stick to the behavior modification.
She is able to communicate in English and 6 other Asian languages. She is currently learning Spanish due the demands of the population that she enjoys working with, in the community mental health agency setting.
Dr. Jayn's style - Jayn's strengths include her years of experience practicing her skills, and training as a psychotherapist in many different clinical settings, as well as her caring, emphatic, and compassionate nature. She is humbled and honored by the privilege of being invited into her clients’ inner worlds and being able to guide them on their journey of healing, and personal growth. She does this with tremendous respect and acceptance. Jayn’s style is to be a supportive and collaborative partner with her clients, to help them use their own self-leadership to find creative and lasting solutions to life's challenges. This stems from her deep belief that people possess an amazing innate ability to heal, and find their own answers. However, sometimes people may be stuck in old patterns and habits or may have a difficult time discovering new ways of thinking or being. With sensitivity, compassion and a strength-based / solution focused, holistic approach, she guides her clients to find and utilize their own inner wisdom to get unstuck and achieve their life goals. With her skillful guidance she helps people to embody their emotions and to truly work with the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of their issues.
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EDUCATION
Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) Marriage and Family Therapy
Doctoral dissertation: Treating Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) with Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), for Generalized Anxiety Disorder ,and Major Depressive Disorder.
Abstract: Many clients seek EMDR psychotherapy for their childhood trauma; child sexual abuse (CSA). This dissertation examines what the research to date has revealed about gender differences in the dynamics of CSA, and the sequelae for male and female victims. Attention has to be given to family members being the perpetrators of CSA, to help educate the victims. These findings are essential in understanding how males and females experience, respond to, and recover from such abuse, and how to protect, prevent, and adequately support victims of CSA and their families. This dissertation will present the research, and focus on the highlights of CSA trauma processing, by utilizing Parnell’s modified attachment focused EMDR. Research was predominantly on the South East Asian population, and set out to show that not all CSA trauma leads to PTSD.
M.A. Psychology - Industrial and Organizational Behavior
M.A. Psychology - Marriage & Family Therapy
Award: Recipient of the 2005 Frowein GmbH (Germany) educational scholarship for marginalized minority women from a third world country
B.Sc. Psychology (Mgmt)
B.Sc. Accounting and Economics - United Kingdom
Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) Marriage and Family Therapy
Doctoral dissertation: Treating Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) with Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), for Generalized Anxiety Disorder ,and Major Depressive Disorder.
Abstract: Many clients seek EMDR psychotherapy for their childhood trauma; child sexual abuse (CSA). This dissertation examines what the research to date has revealed about gender differences in the dynamics of CSA, and the sequelae for male and female victims. Attention has to be given to family members being the perpetrators of CSA, to help educate the victims. These findings are essential in understanding how males and females experience, respond to, and recover from such abuse, and how to protect, prevent, and adequately support victims of CSA and their families. This dissertation will present the research, and focus on the highlights of CSA trauma processing, by utilizing Parnell’s modified attachment focused EMDR. Research was predominantly on the South East Asian population, and set out to show that not all CSA trauma leads to PTSD.
M.A. Psychology - Industrial and Organizational Behavior
M.A. Psychology - Marriage & Family Therapy
Award: Recipient of the 2005 Frowein GmbH (Germany) educational scholarship for marginalized minority women from a third world country
B.Sc. Psychology (Mgmt)
B.Sc. Accounting and Economics - United Kingdom
CERTIFICATIONS
Individualized Placement Services (IPS) for clients with co-occurring disorders - Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Parnell Institute for EMDR - Attachment focused EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA)
Certified Gottman Educator - Bringing Baby Home, Gottman Institute (CGE)
Certified to Diagnose Children and Adult with Dyslexia, Bright Solutions for Dyslexia (DTS)
Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution
Graduate Certificate in Applied Psychology
Individualized Placement Services (IPS) for clients with co-occurring disorders - Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Parnell Institute for EMDR - Attachment focused EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA)
Certified Gottman Educator - Bringing Baby Home, Gottman Institute (CGE)
Certified to Diagnose Children and Adult with Dyslexia, Bright Solutions for Dyslexia (DTS)
Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution
Graduate Certificate in Applied Psychology
GRAD & POST-GRAD CLINICAL EXPERIENCE/ PLACEMENTS / POPULATIONS SERVED / TRAINING / FUNDING- GRANT SOURCES
Private Practice in Palo Alto, San Francisco and Rockridge, Oakland CA
Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (serving schizophrenic clients in the criminal justice system), EBCRP Oakland
Transitional Assertive Community Treatment, EBCRP, Oakland
Individualized Placement Services for clients with co-occurring disorders - Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center
Ryan White Mental Health outpatient clinic (providing holistic health treatment for HIV / AIDS clients), EBCRP Oakland
Project Pride (dyadic mother and children, residential substance abuse treatment facility), EBCRP Oakland
New Bridge Foundation, Bridge I (long term, co-ed residential substance abuse treatment facility), Berkeley, CA
Ujima Family Recovery Services, Kids’ Group, (at risk children (7-18yo), for substance abuse) San Pablo, CA
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR)
Family Paths, Oakland, CA
Federal Pre-trial
US Federal Parole
US Federal Probation
County Probation
Alameda County Superior Court - Juvenile department
Drug Court, Oakland
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Languages spoken
English, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil, Cantonese, Indonesian, Mandarin, and Japanese.
Even though Jayn is able to converse in the above languages, please note that therapy is ONLY offered in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil, and Indonesian.
English, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil, Cantonese, Indonesian, Mandarin, and Japanese.
Even though Jayn is able to converse in the above languages, please note that therapy is ONLY offered in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil, and Indonesian.
Bay Area Sports - Jayn is a avid sports fan of the Bay Area sports teams; Warriors, Niners, Giants and Sharks. Yes, she does support the Raiders and A's, as well ;-)