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INSPIRE Clinic
Our Mission
INSPIRE is a person-centered program providing interdisciplinary and evidence-based care for people experiencing psychosis. We work with individuals, and their families, to achieve meaningful recovery from psychosis. We are also training a new generation of professionals and advancing knowledge through research.
We provide recovery-oriented care for people experiencing early psychosis, including:
- Medication management
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBT-p) in both group and individual format
- Social work support
- Vocational/Educational support
- Clinical trials
For information about accessing care, please call our Intake department to self-refer at 650-498-9111 option 2.
If high school age or younger, please call 650-723-5511
If you are in crisis:
Call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room if you need help immediately.
Crisis Text Line: Text “START” TO 741-741. Free, confidential, 24/7
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1‑800‑273‑TALK (8255), 24/7
Resources and Helpful Information
This website and its contents are designed for informational purposes only and should not be substituted for professional care.
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Who We Are
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Charles is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been working in the INSPIRE Clinic since 2021. Charles offers individual and group support to patients and their families trying to navigate the recovery process. Before his current role, he worked in social services and the mental health field since 2013, in a variety of settings with diverse populations. Most notably he has worked in residential treatment, crisis hotlines, school-based, primary care and community-based mental health programs. Charles holds a double master’s in social work and marriage and family therapy (MSW/MFT) from Syracuse University in Upstate New York. Charles also is a Registered Yoga Teacher.
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Karen Sugarman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who received her Masters in Social Work at NYU Silver School of Social Work. Karen currently works as a therapist at the INSPIRE Clinic, Dual Diagnosis clinic, and Assessment and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy clinic at Stanford. Karen has worked as a social worker and therapist for over 20 years in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and medical settings providing crisis intervention, case management, individual therapy, and group therapy. Karen is trained in CBT for psychosis, CBT, DBT, EMDR, and CPT. Karen takes a holistic approach to working with patients and focuses on “meeting them where they are at” and tailors the treatment accordingly. Karen has a particular interest in trauma focused modalities and continues to pursue further training and education in trauma focused therapy. Karen also has a lot of experience working with individuals with chronic pain having spent close to seven years as a complex care case manager at the Stanford Pain Management Clinic doing case management, crisis intervention, supportive therapy and group therapy. Karen continues to use her skills set working with patients that have chronic pain and comorbid medical conditions at all 3 clinics she is part of at Stanford Outpatient Psychiatry.
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Support our Work
Your support of the INSPIRE Clinic's important work is deeply appreciated.
Online Donation
To make a donation online, please go to medicalgiving.stanford.edu
Click on the "make a gift" blue gift icon on the upper right.
In the special instructions box indicate “This gift is intended to support the work of the INSPIRE Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences"
Donation by Check
To make your donation by check, make the check payable to Stanford University. In the memo line, include INSPIRE Clinic-Psychiatry. In an accompanying letter, note: "This donation is intended to support the work of the INSPIRE Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.”
Stanford University
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P.O. Box 20466
Stanford, CA 94309