Our Providers | Tanvi Patel, PsyD

Specialties
- Psychological Testing & Evaluation
- Emotional Regulation
- Anxiety & Chronic Stress
- Mood Disorders & Depression
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Life Transitions
- Cultural & Identity-Related Stress
- Psychoeducation & Skills-Based Therapy
- Insight-Oriented Therapy
949.561.0991
TPatel@OCHealthpsych.com
CA License #PSY35729
Tanvi Patel, PsyD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Tanvi Patel is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who provides integrative, health psychology–informed psychotherapy and psychological assessment for adults. Her work focuses on the connection between mental health, physical well-being, and lived experience. She offers evidence-based, collaborative care and has advanced training in both psychotherapy and comprehensive psychological assessment. Dr. Patel views assessment as a tool for increasing self-understanding, clarifying diagnoses, and guiding individualized treatment planning.
Dr. Patel uses an integrative, health-informed approach that emphasizes mind–body awareness, emotional regulation, and psychological flexibility. Treatment is individualized to each client’s goals, cultural context, and health-related needs within a safe, respectful, and nonjudgmental space that balances empathy with gentle challenge. She views healing as a holistic, non-linear process grounded in self-awareness, self-compassion, and values-based change.
As a South Asian clinician, Dr. Patel brings cultural humility to her work and is attentive to the impact of culture, identity, family systems, and systemic factors on mental and physical health. Services are offered in English, Gujarati, and Hindi.
Education & Experience
Dr. Patel earned her doctoral degree in Applied Clinical Psychology and her master's degree in Psychology. Her training includes psychotherapy, comprehensive psychological assessment, interdisciplinary collaboration, and clinical supervision across hospital, nonprofit, health-oriented, and community mental health settings. She practices from an evidence-based, integrative framework, incorporating CBT, DBT, ACT, trauma-informed and emotionally focused care, solution-focused interventions, and mindfulness-based approaches. Dr. Patel has extensive experience conducting diagnostic, psychoeducational, and personality evaluations and integrating findings into individualized treatment planning, as well as supervising and mentoring trainees in assessment and report writing. Her work reflects a commitment to ethical, culturally responsive care and ongoing professional development.
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