The nonprofit Rose City Center in Pasadena was founded by five Pasadena-based practicing psychologists to address the troubling gap in access to quality mental health services for underinsured or uninsured clients who couldn’t afford private practice services. Their vision was to offer affordable psychotherapy by pre- and postdoctoral psychology students given top-flight training by clinical psychologists.
The Center opened its doors in 2004. By 2021, ten to eleven clinicians were offering therapy to 368 clients across the San Gabriel Valley and greater LA County.
Today, RCC’s excellence has made it a primary outpatient referral site for Huntington and Las Encinas Hospitals, Occidental College, Caltech and more. It also supports clinics with waiting lists and dozens of local physicians, psychologists, and MFTs.
The Rose City board includes an array of distinguished psychoanalysts and other skilled professionals. When an opening appeared, the organization turned to Jericho Road Pasadena to help find the ideal candidate.
“JRP helped us identify a wonderful candidate for our Board of Directors in 2021,” says Center Executive Director Mary Malecha. “When another opening arose late last year, we turned to the organization again.”
JRP hit a home run with Daniel Stover, M.A., Founder and CEO of Ensight Partners. The firm helps leaders create self-aware, balanced teams dedicated to their organizations’ best interests. “Daniel has been a welcome addition, providing helpful insight and guidance right out of the gate,” Mary says. “His background in business consulting and executive coaching is an invaluable resource for our Board as it evolves.”
Daniel has worked with leaders of enterprise organizations, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and internationally recognized research and academic institutions for over a decade. He holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology, and his education and training programs have received the Excellency Award from Geneva Group International, a worldwide alliance of accounting, consulting and law firms. He and his team have volunteered with JRP since 2016, presenting executive coaching, leadership development, and strategic planning retreats for its clients.
“I’m immensely excited to join this board,” Daniel says. “Anna at JRP thoughtfully matched me with Rose City Center because my educational background and practice area are in organizational psychology, a complementary fit for the Center’s services. I’m excited to contribute to the implementation of the strategic plan they developed last year as a member of their Governance Committee.”
“Rose City is devoted to the community and California, offering affordable services by highly trained and skilled psychotherapists,” he says. “It also trains its practitioners to learn and grow, including a dedicated process for newer psychoanalysts. The Center clearly cares about improving not only mental health outcomes, but its practitioners’ skills as well.”
Thanks to volunteer Linda Taubenreuther for writing this blog post!