Chief Operations Officer
Andrew Noorollah, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and in addition to his role as Chief Operations Officer, he serves as API’s Patient/504 Representative, assisting patients, family members, and employees resolve concerns and grievances. Having been with API since 2003, He has served in multiple roles including Executive Director of Outpatient Services, Director of Psychology and managed outpatient psychiatric programs. His work in private practice has consisted of individual therapy, family therapy, couples therapy, psychological assessment, and behavioral and psychological consultation with patients living with intellectual and developmental disabilities. He has worked with a variety of populations ranging in diagnostic presentation and age from children to geriatric patients. His therapeutic orientation is largely cognitive behavioral and he uses family systems, humanistic, and existential theories to supplement his therapeutic approach.
Dr. Noorollah has instructed courses such as Diversity and Addiction and Advanced Psychotherapeutic Techniques of Addiction at Alliant International University. He currently serves as reader for Alliant dissertation students and since 2014, as a peer reviewer for research based journal articles submitted to Behavior Therapy journal. He is a past recipient of the San Diego County Behavioral Health Recognition Committee’s Outpatient Services Person of the Year award and Clinician of the Year award. He completed his undergraduate degree with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in religious studies at the University of Arizona. He earned his master’s and doctoral graduate degrees in Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, California. Although born in New York City, Dr. Noorollah completed high school and college in Arizona and has lived in San Diego since 1990. He currently lives in North County, where he enjoys basketball, music, watching movies, and spending time with his wife, two children, and his dog.