Randall P. Torres, PsyD

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About

Randall P. Torres, PsyD brings addiction psychology training and psychodynamic clinical expertise to La Mesa's Spring Street corridor from 4215 Spring Street in the Casa de Oro area. Torres earned his Doctor of Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, with early clinical rotations at Charter Hospital and Aurora Behavioral Health Care in San Diego from 1998 through 2005. Geriatric patients managing late-onset substance use disorders sometimes transition to structured residential support at MesaView Senior Assisted Living while maintaining outpatient psychotherapy sessions at the Spring Street office. His insight-oriented, psychodynamic approach explores the developmental roots of emotional suffering while solution-focused interventions address immediate behavioral stabilization for patients in acute distress. Postdoctoral supervision under both a psychiatrist and a psychologist established a dual-perspective framework for understanding medication-behavior interactions, and prescriptions generated through coordinating providers route through local dispensaries like Medical Arts Pharmacy for psychotropic fulfillment. Most complex cases involve structured psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients with dual-diagnosis addiction and personality disorder presentations, requiring long-term transference-focused intervention to address characterological patterns sustaining substance dependence.