Our Team of Experts

Dr. Khasho is CHC’s Chief Clinical Officer and Director of Clinical Services for Sand Hill School. Dr. Khasho has over 20 years experience evaluating and treating children, teens and families. He specializes in pediatric anxiety and depression, ADHD, autism, forensic assessment and family therapy. Dr. Khasho explains, “Our specialists work together to bring all their knowledge and points of view to the table to discover what’s really going on with each child. Our highly-trained expert staff includes licensed psychologists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, educational specialists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists–all right here and ready to help.”

Dr. Baran is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at CHC. She has over 20 years experience working with young children in a variety of settings. Her expertise includes infant and young child assessment, autism spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities. Dr. Baran speaks both English and Spanish. She is passionate about serving underserved populations and has been committed to this cause throughout her career. She believes in supporting and respecting families and building from childrens’ strengths.

Dr. Pardis Khosravi specializes in conducting comprehensive psychological evaluations and providing evidence-based psychotherapy to children, adolescents and transitional aged youth. Dr. Khosravi has training in multiple evidence-based therapies and integrates interventions and approaches from various modalities, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). She is passionate about psychological assessment as a tool to best understand each child’s strengths and weaknesses, to empower the child and their family to utilize their strengths to increase resiliency and optimize academic, social and emotional functioning.

Dr. Flasher directs mental health training programs at CHC and is director of the APA-approved, Stanford-affiliated Doctoral Psychology Internship consortium. Her clinical specialties include psychological assessment in school age children and adolescents, cultural and family diversity, cognitive behavior therapy, interpersonal therapy, disruptive behavior, anxiety and mood disorders. She also enjoys working with parents to promote children’s healthy psychosocial development and recovery from trauma and other stressful events and changes. She is a strong believer in fostering healthy lifestyles and physical fitness in children as essential ingredients in psychological well-being and happiness.

Dr. Krishnan brings a wealth of clinical experience to her role at CHC. She believes in a comprehensive approach to mental health issues and aims for a collaborative approach to care with a strong emphasis on therapeutic interventions to complement the use of medications. She works to build a team of caregivers with common goals, frequently involving multiple stakeholders with an aim to utilize the various resources available in the community. She is passionate about the importance of improved access to mental health services and strives to work in diminishing the stigma surrounding mental illness at the individual, family and community level.

Rachel is thrilled to join CHC. She brings over 20 years of non profit leadership experience with her including positions at the East Bay SPCA and Guide Dogs for the Blind. Her most recent role was with Discover Hope Behavioral Solutions, an ABA company dedicated to helping children diagnosed with ASD. Rachel has undergraduate degrees in Math and Economics and an MBA with a concentration in non profit management from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. In her spare time, she is very involved in Bay Area theater and usually sees one to three musicals a week! She lives in the East Bay with her three teens, husband and endless parade of foster animals.

Dr. Hsu attended the University of Washington for her undergraduate degree in Psychology. After working for a year as a residential treatment counselor and in a genetics lab, she attended the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology at Palo Alto University to obtain her PhD in Clinical Psychology with emphases in Child & Family and Health Psychology. Dr. Hsu’s passion for working with children and families with Autism Spectrum Disorder and developmental disabilities started during a practicum at Children’s Hospital Oakland at the Children’s Hospital Autism Intervention (CHAI). She completed her postdoctoral residency at the Kaiser Permanente Autism Spectrum Disorder Center in San Jose. She worked there for four years in diagnoses, research, supervision, and training. Dr. Hsu currently continues to work part-time at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research with the Autism Research Project (ARP) as the clinical lead for several research studies, including SEED (Study to Explore Early Development), EARLI (Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation), ECHO (Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes) in the ELEGANT (Early Life Exposures and Child Growth, Adiposity, and Neurodevelopment) and ASD-ER (Autism Spectrum Disorder Enriched Risk) cohorts, PETALS (Pregnancy Environment and Lifestyle Study), and ELM (Early Life Exposures and Development).