Dr. Mireille Beauchaine

Dr. Beauchaine grew up in Madison, Wisconsin with an intense interest in gymnastics.  She also had an excellent aptitude for it.  She moved to Scottsdale, Arizona where she competed in gymnastics for a year until getting a sports injury that ended her personal participation.  However, she then began teaching as a Coach and moved to Southern California where she placed in several state championships.  Her team won several individual state championship awards as well as several state team awards for gymnastics.  She was also well recognized individually as an all around gymnastics coach and judge.  Fortunately for us, she was also interested in the field of psychology.

Dr. Beauchaine obtained her Psy.D. degree and her Master's degree in clinical psychology from the Rosemead School of Psychology in La Mirada, California.  She received her Bachelor's degree from Biola University in La Mirada, California.  She has extensive counseling, assessment, and research experience.  She has worked with a variety of DSM-IV diagnoses which included depression and anxiety disorders, adjustment disorder, factitious disorders, eating disorders, and borderline, dependent and narcissistic personality disorders.  Her assessment experience includes administering, scoring, and interpreting the results of intelligence, achievement and personality measures for students with learning disabilities, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and mood disorders. (e.g., WAIS-III, WRAT, Bender-Gestalt, MMPI-2, TAT, Rorschach [Exner scoring] and Sentence Completion).  Since working with our practice, she has also gained experience with numerous neuropsychological instruments such as the Rey-Osterrith complex drawing figure, the Buschke, the Booklet Category test, the Trail Making test, and the PASAT (paced serial addition auditory test), among others.

Dr. Beauchaine's emphasis with our practice is on neuropsychological assessment of clients with traumatic brain injuries as well as other neurological dysfunction.  She is also involved in assisting our brain injury treatment program, Project ReEntry, with neurocognitive interventions to benefit our clients.