Alyssa Kianidehkian

Alyssa Kianidehkian is a Bay Area native and proud USF alum, as well as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in working with children/adolescents, families, and young adults. Alyssa has 10+ years of experience working with youth and families in a wide range of community-based settings, including school-based, wraparound, outpatient programs, and in residential treatment centers. She has extensive experience providing individual, family, and group therapy in these settings.

In addition to teaching in the Counseling Psychology program at USF, Alyssa currently serves as the Acute Intensive Services Programs Director at Edgewood Center for Children and Families, where she oversees the Residential, Partial Hospitalization, and Intensive Outpatient Programs. She also provides clinical supervision to graduate students in their school-based practicum placements through the Center for Child and Family Development and is passionate about coaching, mentoring, and training the next generation of therapists. Finally, she has a private practice where she currently works with adolescents and young adults. Alyssa believes deeply that it really does take a village to raise a child - and she is always in awe of the opportunity to be invited to be a part of that village for any family.

• Children/Adolescents
• Family systems
• Suicidal ideation and self-harm
• Trauma
• Relationship issues

• Group Counseling
• Parent and Child Therapy

• USF, MA in Counseling Psychology, 2013
• University of California at Santa Barbara, BA in Communication, 2011

• Acute Intensive Services Programs Director, Edgewood Center for Children and Families
• Clinical Supervisor, Center for Child and Family Development
• Psychotherapy Private Practice, San Francisco Bay Area