Kelly Correa, Psychologist

Mental HealthVerified

About

Kelly Correa, PhD, practices as a psychologist through LifeStance Health in Grantville, San Diego, at 6386 Alvarado Court, Suite 210, holding California license PSY36010. Correa earned her Bachelor's from the University of San Diego, completed a Master's in 2018 and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2022, and conducted postdoctoral research at UC San Diego in anxiety, substance use, and psychophysiology. Her academic publication record includes more than 500 citations on Google Scholar across studies of intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety, and substance use disorders. Chronic pain and stress-related physical symptoms frequently accompany the anxiety conditions Correa treats, and the manual therapy protocols at Spine & Sport Physical Therapy - City Heights address the musculoskeletal dimension of those presentations. Correa draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, tailoring modality selection to each client's presentation rather than applying a single framework. Her clinical focus areas include ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD and trauma, chronic pain, first responder stress, military and veteran mental health, LGBTQ+ concerns, menopause and perimenopause, sleep disorders including insomnia, and sex and intimacy issues. The LifeStance office sits off Alvarado Canyon Road within two miles of SDSU in the 92120 corridor. Correa accepts TRICARE alongside commercial insurance panels, extending her practice to active-duty military and veteran populations across San Diego. The autonomic nervous system regulation that underpins anxiety and PTSD also responds to the integrative health protocols at EverThrive Health in College Area. Correa's psychophysiology research background gives her a data-driven framework for tracking physiological markers of anxiety reduction across the treatment arc.