California psychologist license PSY30259 backs Dr. Jessica Hughes's couple- and trauma-focused practice tied to UC San Diego Health's Hillcrest campus, where she serves as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Spanish-language sessions are available throughout, drawing on Hughes's background as a native speaker who immigrated to the United States and trained at the Philadelphia VA before completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the VA San Diego/UCSD Family Mental Health Program — a route that overlaps with the anxiety-specific protocols offered by Anxiety Therapy SD. Treatment combines Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples with prolonged-exposure and cognitive-behavioral protocols for adult PTSD and panic disorder. The clinical training pedigree runs from a Brown University postgraduate research fellowship through a PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Bilingual evidence-based care for racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ+ clients distinguishes the Hillcrest practice from the assessment-driven testing batteries handled by Diana Panizzon, PsyD. The most involved cases on her caseload are couples in distress where one partner also carries combat-related or interpersonal trauma, requiring EFT attachment work and individual exposure therapy to run in parallel across the same treatment arc.