Melissa London

Dr. Melissa J. London, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides individual and group psychotherapy, supervision, and consultation in private practice and through her affiliation as an Assistant Professor with the University of California-San Francisco. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco. She has over a decade of experience working in specialty clinics for trauma and addiction at various Veterans Affairs hospitals, most recently as clinic coordinator of the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Clinic at the San Francisco VA. Her expertise is working with individuals with a history of trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, and identity-based stress. As a clinician-educator, she prefers evidence-based practice and empirically supported treatments. She strives to incorporate values of advocacy, authenticity, balance, empowerment, inclusion, liberation, practicality, resilience, and uniqueness in all of her services.

• Substance use and addiction
• PTSD, complex trauma, and anxiety
• Identity based stress

• Substance use and addiction
• PTSD, complex trauma, and anxiety
• Cultural variation in response to trauma, identity based stress

• Northern Illinois University, PhD in Clinical Psychology
• CUNY-Hunter College, BA in Psychology & Sociology

• Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice
• Former Clinic Coordinator of the Drug & Alcohol Treatment Clinic, San Francisco VA Medical Center
• UCSF Health Sciences Assistant Professor
• The Psychotherapy Institute, Group Therapy Training Program Seminar Faculty

• San Francisco VA Medical Center Employee of the Quarter, 2024

• Hubbard, A.A., London, M.J., Endlsey, M. & Erazo, T. (2024). Race-based stress and trauma empowerment group. Group Approaches to Treating Traumatic Stress: A Clinical Handbook, 191.
• Valdez, C.E., London, M.J., Gregorich, S.E., & Lilly, M.M. (2021). Development and validation of the Trauma-Related Cognitions Scale. Plos one, 16(4), e0250221.
• Butler, D. M., London, M. J., & Orcutt, H. K. (2016). Examining minority attrition among women in longitudinal trauma research. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 29, 26-32.
• London, M. J., Lilly, M. M., & Pittman, L. (2014). Attachment as a mediator between community violence and posttraumatic stress symptoms among adolescents with a history of maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 42, 1-9.