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INSPIRE 360

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INSPIRE 360 is a grant-funded pilot program offering multidisciplinary, wrap-around care for individuals experiencing early psychosis and their natural supports. As an expansion of the existing INSPIRE Clinic, the program focuses on supporting individuals in their recovery journey to return to meaningful life roles and reducing the long-term impacts of illness.


Eligible participants must:

  • Be between ages 16–65
  • Have private insurance, Medicare A & B, or self-pay
  • Be within 5 years of onset of psychosis
  • Reside within a 30-minute drive of the INSPIRE Clinic (401 Quarry Road, Palo Alto, CA)

INSPIRE 360 is expected to launch this summer with limited capacity.

To learn more or make a referral, please contact the INSPIRE Clinic at 650-498-9111 option 2.

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Meet the Team

Apurva Bhatt
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Bio

Apurva Bhatt, M.D., is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her role spans the General Adult Psychiatry Division, Child Psychiatry Division, and Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing. Dr. Bhatt specializes in early psychosis evaluation and treatment. She is the Director of the Child INSPIRE clinic and currently provides clinical care in both the Stanford Children’s Hospital Child INSPIRE early psychosis clinic and the Stanford Health Care INSPIRE clinic and INSPIRE360 Coordinated Specialty Care/Wraparound program. She contributes to early psychosis program development in California (through EPI-CAL as the Psychiatric Provider Team Lead) and nationally (through PEPPNET). She is also co-chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Adolescent Psychiatry Committee and Early Psychosis work group. Dr. Bhatt is also a school psychiatrist, providing school clinical consultations for the Redwood City School District through the Stanford Redwood City Sequoia School Mental Health Collaborative. She also provides clinical consultations to schools in the Los Altos School district, and supervises child and adolescent psychiatry fellows providing consultation to Los Altos, Redwood City, and Mountain View schools. Dr. Bhatt’s research interests include Asian American and South Asian youth mental health and prevention of youth suicide. She enjoys teaching and mentoring students and trainees, and currently is a mentor through the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Salvador Castro
Case Manager, INSPIRE 360

Bio

Salvador Castro is a Case Manager with the INSPIRE 360 Team, where he supports individuals experiencing significant mental health challenges through a compassionate, strengths-based approach. With several years of experience in community-based mental health care, Salvador is committed to walking alongside clients as they work toward stability, recovery, and personal goals that matter most to them. Salvador brings a unique perspective from his background in the criminal justice field, allowing him to better understand and support individuals navigating complex systems. He values dignity, trust, and cultural humility in his work, and believes in meeting people where they are. 

Nuriya Ruth Hefron
Program Manager, INSPIRE 360

Bio

Nuriya (Nuri) Hefron, MS, OTR/L (she/her), is a licensed occupational therapist with expertise in early psychosis care and program development. She is passionate about holistic recovery-oriented approaches that center meaningful daily engagement, community integration, and well-being. As the program manager for INSPIRE 360, Nuri is especially interested in evaluating the use of psychosocial interventions and integrating lived experience into both research and service delivery. She values interdisciplinary collaboration and believes diverse teams are essential to building responsive, effective programs. Her work focuses on improving access to care and expanding opportunities for affirming, culturally sensitive services, particularly for individuals and communities who have been historically underserved. At the heart of her work, Nuri believes that mental health care should meet people where they are, respecting their stories, values, and goals for recovery.
Meg Latt, MS, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist

Bio

Meg Latt, MS, OTR/L is a licensed and registered Occupational Therapist (OT) with eight years of experience supporting the well-being of individuals in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She focuses on working with people experiencing psychosis, using recovery-oriented and trauma-informed approaches to guide care. Meg draws from a wide range of tools—like cognitive strategies, movement and sensory-based activities, and mindfulness—to support each person in building a meaningful life and exploring what helps them feel present, connected, and comfortable. She believes in everyone’s potential and is committed to partnering with you on the goals that matter most to you.

Barbara Naden
INSPIRE 360 Family Advocate

Bio

Barbara Naden is an engineering manager by training, but one of her most important roles has been supporting a loved one through psychosis for the past 20 years. After 15 years of struggling, she took training in how families can best support someone experiencing psychosis, and she saw firsthand how much of a difference it made in her loved one’s recovery. For the last three years, Barbara has been sharing what she’s learned by coaching other families. She believes that with the right tools, families can not only ease their own stress but also play a meaningful part in their loved one’s healing journey.

Mary Pacheco, MA, (she/her)
Supported Education and Employment Specialist, INSPIRE 360

Bio

Mary Pacheco (she/her) supports INSPIRE 360 participants as they take steps towards school, work, or whatever comes next. She believes in meeting people where they are, walking alongside them through uncertainty, and celebrating progress in all forms. With a background in community psychology, crisis support, and trauma-informed care, Mary focuses on helping people reconnect with their strengths, navigate systems, and build lives that feel meaningful to them. She firmly believes that the smallest changes often lead to the biggest transformations. In her free time, Mary loves reading, seeing movies in the theater, and practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Jenae Aesha Richardson
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Bio

Dr. Jenae Richardson is a Clinical Assistant Professor and a CA Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the INSPIRE Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She also works in the acute psychiatric inpatient units at Stanford Hospital. She specializes in utilizing evidence-based treatments (EBTs) to treat individuals with psychosis and has worked with this population across inpatient and outpatient settings. She is passionate about improving the dissemination and implementation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp), and at the INSPIRE Clinic, she leads CBTp trainings for mental health professionals and provides CBTp to individuals with psychosis. Dr. Richardson completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Arizona’s Early Psychosis Intervention Center and her postdoctoral fellowship at Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. She obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology from Long Island University Post and conducted research exploring barriers to implementing CBTp in the United States.
Natalie Rutherford
Peer Support Specialist, INSPIRE 360

Bio

Natalie Rutherford is a Peer Support Specialist with the Inspire 360 program for participants experiencing early psychosis. As a peer support specialist, Natalie uses her lived experience navigating mental health challenges to connect with others from a place of empathy, trust, and mutual understanding. Natalie's background is in youth development, caregiving, and community-based support. Her journey through recovery has shaped her commitment to creating safe and judgement free spaces where individuals feel free to express themselves and their struggles openly. Outside of her role, Natalie enjoys one of her many hobbies including sewing, crochet, hiking, or listening to music.

Khalid Salaheldin, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Bio

Khalid Salaheldin, MD, holds the position of Clinical Associate Professor and serves as an interventional psychiatrist within the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. His expertise lies in the specialized care of individuals who present with early psychosis. At Stanford, Dr. Salaheldin's current responsibilities encompass a range of clinical activities, including evaluating patients with early psychosis at the INSPIRE clinic, where is is also part of the expansion team for INSPIRE 360. He provides care on the inpatient psychiatric unit and interventional psychiatry services as well. In addition to his clinical work, he is actively engaged in teaching, conducting research, and fostering collaborative learning among his patients and colleagues. His treatment philosophy is a recovery oriented and compassionate approach evaluating vital underlying factors alongside pharmacotherapy & neuromodulatory interventions including: sleep, exercise, nutrition, mindfulness, therapy integration, underlying medical issues, substance use, psychosocial history, and importantly patients’ current relationships (including pets of course!). His approach focuses on meeting patients where they are at in their health journey, aligning treatment with their personal goals, and being actively present in their management. Dr. Salaheldin’s research interests include early psychosis interventions, underlying medical causes of psychiatric symptoms, neuromodulation, community/global mental health, spirituality and mental health, novel psychiatric therapeutics, mental health parity & policy, and healthcare worker wellness through minimizing coding and documentation burden. Before joining Stanford, Dr. Salaheldin served as the academic chief resident at Northwell Health, where his focus centered on designing a consult liaison service for patients experiencing a first episode of psychosis. This pioneering initiative aimed to provide compassionate support to patients and their families from the moment they arrived at the emergency room, throughout their inpatient stay, and during their transition to the outpatient setting. He hopes to continue this work on a local and global scale. “True compassion means not only feeling another's pain, but also being moved to help relieve it. ” —Daniel Goleman
Lénie Torregrossa, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Bio

Dr. Lénie Torregrossa is a clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. At Stanford, she works on the inpatient psychiatric units and the INSPIRE clinic. Dr. Torregrossa was previously a research psychologist in the brain imaging and EEG lab at the University of San Francisco (UCSF). She specializes in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, psychosis, and serious mental illness. Her approach to treatment is person centered and recovery focused, grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and informed by acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). She emphasizes collaboration, values-based living, and meaningful functional goals. Dr. Torregrossa's research focuses on risk and protective factors for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, self-disturbances in schizophrenia, and improving treatments for psychosis. She has published articles in many peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA Network Open, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, and Frontiers in Psychiatry. She has presented to her peers at international, national, and regional meetings, including the European Conference on Schizophrenia Research, the International Consortium for Schizotypy Research, the Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. Dr. Torregrossa is a member of the Schizophrenia International Research Society, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the American Psychological Association, and the North America CBT for Psychosis Network.