Doveina Serrano, ACSW

Doveina Serrano, ACSW, is Lead Therapist at Golden Coast Rehab. An Associate Clinical Social Worker (ACSW #103247) with roughly eight years of direct client work, she carries a therapy caseload, facilitates PHP and IOP groups, and completes the pre-admission and comprehensive clinical assessments that determine what level of care a new client actually needs.

Her experience spans voluntary hospital-based and PHP/IOP programs, working with adults who have co-occurring mental health and substance use needs, including people living with serious and persistent mental illness. Day to day that has meant individual, group, and family therapy, crisis assessment and safety planning, care coordination, case management, and discharge planning, alongside the treatment plans, progress notes, and clinical documentation that keep a chart complete under county and Medi-Cal standards.

As a team lead in a previous program, Doveina supervised and onboarded new therapists and interns, and reviewed clinical charts and staff documentation for completeness, quality, and compliance. She holds a Master of Social Work with a direct-practice concentration from San Diego State University, where she graduated with honors after completing more than 700 clinical hours in outpatient and counseling-center settings with co-occurring disorders and trauma. She is trained in motivational interviewing, CBT, DBT, and trauma-informed care, has completed 80 hours of crisis intervention training, and works closely with psychiatrists and interdisciplinary treatment teams to coordinate care.