Mental Health Practice – Jacob’s Ladder Therapies
Jacob’s Ladder Therapies is a multi-clinician mental health practice headquartered in San Jose, California, with in-person locations in San Jose, Hayward, and Vallejo, and virtual telehealth services extending to clients in California, Indiana, Massachusetts, Colorado, and New Jersey. The practice is led by CEO Tametra Johnson, LCSW, CASDCS. The clinical team includes Maritza Noriega-Chicas, LMFT (Clinical Manager); Dr. Angelica Maulucci, DSW, LCSW (Operations Manager); Jacqueline Leong-Abad, LMFT; Emmylou Chua Cancino, LMFT; Miatta Watkins, LMFT; Michele Brister, LPCC; Susan Curry Sykes, LMFT; Juhyang Seo, LMHC; Vivian D. Brown Johnson, LMFT; and Arti Patel, AMFT. Services are available in English, Spanish, Korean, and Persian.
The practice offers individual therapy for youth and teens, family therapy, group therapy for elementary, middle, and high school students, and dedicated services for transitional-age youth ages 18 to 25. Additional programming includes parent education and coaching, mental health support for schools, employee incident response, and workplace mediation. Walk-and-talk sessions are available alongside standard in-person and telehealth appointments.
Therapeutic modalities in use include Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Play Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, and Trauma-Focused CBT. Specialty areas addressed include depression, anxiety, academic stress, trauma, ADHD, low motivation, parent-child conflict, co-parenting concerns, life transitions, social-emotional intelligence, and executive functioning.
Insurance networks accepted include Lyra, Modern Health, BHS, Aetna, United Healthcare (Optum), Oxford (Optum), Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey, and TriWest. Superbills are provided for out-of-network reimbursement. Session fees are $225 for individual, $275 for family or couples, and $175 for group sessions. The practice can be reached at (408) 471-4261 or info@jacobsladdertherapies.com.