Nicole Banks
Nicole Banks is a seasoned healthcare executive. She’s bilingual and has multiple degrees with emphasis in Business, Math, Biology, and Chemistry. With fifteen years of management experience in different
industries, Nicole brings a broad skillset, resourcefulness, determination, and unfettered optimism to meet every challenge. She is passionate about relationship building and has a can do attitude. She believes that we are only as successful as the people we know and strives to help Silver Lake Psychology broaden our impact in the communities we serve. She loves mentoring employees and collaborates with them to improve their performance and efficiency, inspire their successes, and gives them a voice to help create improvements for each position. Nicole Banks is also a wife, freelance writer, aspiring polyglot, pianist, dog mom, and self-described crazy plant lady. In her free time, she’s an amateur genealogist and loves spending time with her husband, nieces, and nephews. To contact Nicole directly, Email at: nicole@silverlakepsychology.comChristen Ortiz
Christen Ortiz was born and raised in Los Angeles. After growing up in competitive gymnastics, and coaching for almost 20 years, she moved into veterinary medicine where she spent 14-years before deciding to follow one of her dreams and move to Hawaii. By 2016, she had learned that if she could pick up and move to an island by herself, she could do anything and moved back to LA to pursue her passion for mental health. In the final year of earning her BA in Psychology, which she completed in 2019, she found Silver Lake Psychology where she signed on as an intake coordinator before being promoted to Practice Director. Thanks in large part to her caring nature, it has been a fantastic fit for both her and the practice and she's proud to call SLP her professional home. When she's not caring for clients, helping guide our coordinators, or helping grow the business, Christen loves going to movies, concerts, spending time with friends and family, and being near the ocean. She's also a proud dog mom and habitual animal lover.
To contact Christen directly, Email at: christen@silverlakepsychology.comMekha Thomas |
To contact Mekha directly, Email at: mekha@silverlakepsychology.com
Samantha Paul
Samantha is our Outreach and Staffing Coordinator. With years of experience as a child and adolescent therapist, she is excited to live out her passion for mental health in a different way. Driven by her background in social work, she takes pride in providing the best level of care to our current community partners while building relationships to create future partnerships. In addition, Samantha works with the staffing team to recruit and onboard quality therapists for Silver Lake. When she is not working, Samantha enjoys cooking (mostly eating), traveling, and spending quality time with her husband, daughter, and two dogs.