About Us

Depression is debilitating in every aspect of life. Our founders have professionally and personally witnessed how depression can rob patients from enjoying their lives. Basic daily functions become monumental, if not impossible. If you are able to work, or even attend a social event, it is often akin to just moving the through the motions in a thick fog.

As clinicians, it often takes extensive management to weed through nuances to help patients with depression. As a friend or family member, it becomes personal, sometimes eliciting anger and frustration; it can make your heart explode when you watch the person you care about dwindle to the shell of a person. We understand.

We understand how rapid, caring treatment is urgently needed for patients.

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Raul Lopez, MD

  • Dr. Lopez is a board certified with the American Board of Emergency Medicine, working for over 35 years as an emergency room physician, with the past 12 years as the Quality Assurance Director. Additionally, he is a medical expert with the Superior Court of Los Angeles.

  • Dr. Lopez pursued his undergraduate degree in Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz while also devoting his summers to health and research fellowship programs at Harvard University, Indiana University, and Cornell. After graduating with his medical degree from UCLA, Dr. Lopez completed his emergency medicine residency at USC.

  • Dr. Lopez has been touched professionally and personally with

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Hillary Mennella, DNP, FNP-BC

  • Dr. Mennella is an ANCC board certified family nurse practitioner with 20+ years of clinical experience in private practice, emergency medicine, and college health.

  • Hillary pursued her undergraduate degree in Biology & Community Health at Virginia Tech, moving on to nursing degrees from Johns Hopkins University and California State University, Long Beach. Her past work includes utilization management, hospital auditing and quality assurance, legal compliance consulting, clinical teaching, and over 10 years writing clinical skills and guidelines for an allied health professions international database. 

    The profound and common mental health issues she encountered in her clinical work and people closest to her led her led her to Duke University for her doctorate degree in an evidence-based quality improvement programming to screen for mental health disorders and explore attitudes about alternative based treatments such as yoga.

  • Hillary wants patients to know that depression it isn’t your fault. That “losing” the battle to recovery also isn’t your fault. You have tried.

    Depression casts heavy shadows on every part of your life, stealing your ability to function and experience joy.