Ms. Parker believes when relationships are torn apart due to unresolved issues, severe life stress and negative behaviors affecting life functioning, the last alternative anyone wants to do is to seek guidance. 

Allow her to be the GPS, awhile still being in the driver seat.  

Ms. Parker can help provide an objective view to complete identified goals and get the desired outcomes.  She will provide positive shifts in your life to gain results, and begin the healing process to build families stronger and closer. As a therapist for a passion to help others, Ms. Parker will walk with you along this journey for overall life satisfaction and fulfillment.

Ms. Parker believes motivation, encouragement, and support are 3 essential ingredients in this beautiful thing we call life. Specific orientations include family systems as every member has an identifiable role, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Solutions Focused Therapy. Kelsey currently is an expertise in Multi-Systemic Therapy. Kelsey received her BA in 2010 from California State University, Sacramento with a degree in Psychology.  She decided to further her education by obtaining a MA from University of Phoenix, Sacramento, to pursue a degree in Counseling with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy.  

Ms. Parker has over 13 years of experience working in a residential setting, non- profit setting as a clinician, and is currently molding a private practice in Sacramento. 

Ms. Parker  works with different diverse populations which include individuals, families, couples, adolescents, and children. 

Topics of specialty include: anger management, substance use, parenting support, co-parenting support, divorce, relationship struggles, depression, anxiety, life transitions, stress management, life transitions, stress management, grief and loss (bereavement),

defiant behavior with adolescents, stress management, LGBTQ, ADHD support, blended families, adoptions, infidelity, infertility, and bipolar disorder.

Always interested in human behavior and interaction, Dr. Moreno vividly remembers the day she declared her major in psychology as an undergraduate student, and never felt more confident about anything in her life. She went on to earn her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from California State University, Chico.

Dr. Moreno then earned her Master of Science degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from her alma mater, Chico State. Following graduation, she was chosen to be the Kaiser Permanente Chemical Dependency Rehabilitation Program Fellow in San Francisco, CA. During this fellowship, she served as a member of the Day Treatment program where she provided individual, group therapy and assessment services to actively detoxing addicts and alcoholics.

Dr. Moreno then moved on to community based mental health services in the Sacramento Region where she performed individual and family therapy.

Dr. Moreno earned her Doctorate in Marital and Family Therapy from Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, CA. Her program focused on program development and evaluation through a systemic lens. She served as the lead evaluator for the Riverside County Office of Education Evaluation Team through LLU, and served as a mental health clinician at the Loma Linda University Behavioral Health Institute and Behavioral Medicine Center.

Following Graduation, Dr. Moreno worked as a counselor in a methadone clinic, providing therapeutic services to individuals and groups addicted to opiates.

Dr. Moreno then served as the sole mental health care provider at an all women residential facility and permanent housing center, some of which were part of the AB-109 program where they could serve out their jail sentence in treatment with their children under the age of 6.

Dr. Moreno has experience as program director within an inpatient psychiatric facility. While at the psychiatric facility, Dr. Moreno would remind her staff, “people come to us on their worst day, let us be kind and provide a healing experience for them.”

Dr. Moreno is currently an Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento in the Counselor Education Program, Marriage Child Family Counseling program specialty. She is also the MCFC program coordinator and clinical supervisor for field study.

Dr, Moreno’s treatment philosophy is “emotion is the bridge between thoughts and behaviors. By treating the patient holistically, we can get to the root of emotions where real change can happen.”

Dr. Moreno’s areas of specialty include: adolescents, adults, marital and relational issues, family therapy, couples therapy, chemical dependency, anxiety and depression.