Our Interns

Amanda Marquez, MA

Amanda Marquez, MA is a psychology intern serving in the inpatient track at Sutter Center for Psychiatry (SCP). She provides services on the child and adolescent, adult, and intensive care units. Amanda has broad range of experience in individual therapy and assessment across the ages in a variety of clinical settings including private practice, community mental health, and within the public school system. She has extensive assessment training in neuropsychological assessment and is formally trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), a trauma treatment for children and adolescents and their families. Amanda’s primary interests are in neuropsychology, psychological assessment, and postpartum work with women and skill building with children. She primarily works from a Cognitive Behavioral lens with her patients, but utilizes a range of interventions strategies. Amanda is currently a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology PsyD program at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University, Sacramento and will be graduating in May 2021.

J.D. Dragna, MA

J.D. Dragna, MA is a psychology intern serving the inpatient track at Sutter Center for Psychiatry (SCP). He provides services on the adult, child and adolescent, and intensive care units. J.D. has a broad range of experience in outpatient treatment in a variety of clinical settings including: schools, hospitals, and private practices. His chief interests include individual and group psychotherapy. In all psychotherapy, he maintains a special focus on bringing unconscious material into consciousness, enhancing functioning of the ego, and de-stigmatizing mental health services. J.D.’s doctoral dissertation focused on the promoting factors of engaging men successfully with psychotherapy. He primarily operates and conceptualizes from a psychodynamic stand-point; yet, pulls from a wide variety of different modalities’ interventions when working with patients. J.D. is currently a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology PsyD program at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University, Sacramento and will be graduating in May, 2021.

Josie Wheeler, MA

Josie Wheeler, MA is the evening Partial Hospitalization Program track intern, providing services to both adolescents and adults as part of a collaborative and multidisciplinary team. Prior to working at SCP Josie worked as a practicum trainee in hospital, community mental health, and school settings providing services to children, adolescents, adults, and families. Josie provided individual, group, and family therapy, crisis assessment and intervention, and long term grief and trauma work. Josie is a current doctoral candidate in the Clinical PsyD program at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University, San Francisco and will be graduating in May 2021. As part of her dissertation, Josie created a children’s book, Maggie Learns About New Beginnings, to provide a resource for adults to use with young children who have experienced parental figure death. She aims to publish the book and continue to provide therapeutic services and support to young individuals who experience grief.

Casey Taylor, MA

Casey Taylor, MA is the Partial Hospitalization Program track intern providing services to both adults and adolescents as part of a collaborative and multidisciplinary team. Prior to working at SCP, Casey served as a practicum intern working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in a community mental health outpatient program, a university counseling center, a multidisciplinary health center, and within a private practice. Casey has experience with individual and group psychotherapy, crisis assessment and intervention, psychological/cognitive assessments, and teaching psychoeducational courses. Casey uses a humanistic/attachment oriented approach to psychotherapy, and utilizes both Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance Commitment Therapy techniques with her clients. Casey is currently working towards her PhD at Fuller School of Psychology, Pasadena. Casey’s dissertation examined the relationship between caring adult relationships and adolescents. More specifically, she examined how caring adult relationships can act as catalysts for healthy adaptation and thriving in the lives of youth facing adversity. In her free time, Casey enjoys reading, traveling with her husband, playing with her dog, and adventuring outdoors.

Our Interns

Amanda Marquez, MA

J.D. Dragna, MA

Josie Wheeler, MA

Casey Taylor, MA

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