Licensed as an MFT for 36 years, Jan Mellinger brings extensive clinical depth to Chula Vista's Eastlake corridor through LifeStance Health at 2300 Boswell Road, Suite 275 in the 91914 ZIP code. The practice's focus on chronic mental illness and end-of-life counseling frequently involves coordination with inpatient psychiatric services at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center on Medical Center Drive, the region's primary acute-care psychiatric hub. Twenty-three years of work in chronic mental illness and addiction treatment inform sessions addressing psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, and co-occurring substance-use disorders across patients aged 15 to 65 and older. The Boswell Road location east of I-805 places the practice within the Eastlake community, serving the Otay Ranch and Rolling Hills neighborhoods of eastern Chula Vista. The practice connects clients with Community Health Group for Medi-Cal behavioral-health benefit navigation, streamlining managed-care access for patients with serious and persistent mental illness. Clinical protocols apply structured relapse-prevention frameworks alongside grief-stage assessment models calibrated for terminal-illness caregivers, hospice-adjacent family systems, and bereavement-complicated depressive episodes.