SD Psychology founder Dr. Stamatia Daroglou on three decades of clinical work, the mental health surge she didn’t expect, and why she believes the real work of therapy only begins once the crisis is over.
When the pandemic overwhelmed San Diego’s medical community in 2020, the calls started coming in from an unexpected direction. Physicians. Nurses. Psychologists. Mental health professionals who were themselves drowning in the demand for care — and who needed someone to talk to.
Dr. Stamatia Daroglou took those calls. She had been a Behavioral Health Consultant at Naval Medical Center San Diego for five years. She knew physicians. She understood the particular weight of a job where the stakes are other people’s survival. And so, the same way her work with cancer patients had begun — one referral, then another, then word spreading through the medical community — her practice with healthcare professionals took shape…