About Us

Stratus Mental Health Center originally opened in 2018 as the Los Angeles outpost of the Boston Child Study Center (BCSC), founded by psychologist Dr. Ryan Madigan. In early 2020, Dr. Fleisher joined BCSC, becoming the psychiatrist and medical director. This grew into a full-time role when he left UCLA in 2022. Then, in 2026, when Dr. Madigan had to step away from managing the practice from across the country, Dr. Fleisher stepped in and Stratus was born.

 

First as BCSC and now as Stratus, our core values remain the same. We believe that everyone deserves exceptional mental health care. Thus, our vision is clear, if ambitious:  to provide the best mental health care in the country in a way that everyone can access.

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Our initial premise was simple:  bring the excellence of academic medical centers to private practice. At the top mental health institutions in the world, access to treatment was clogged by bureaucracy and jumbled priorities. We also saw how excellence could be portable. In other words, private clinics could and should bring training and research outside the ivory tower. And by doing so while maintaining clinical care as the number one priority, we avoid the impersonal fragmentation of universities, whose main priorities (budgets, staffing, fundraising, etc.) are not the people who seek care.

 

In doing so, we established a unique and powerful model of excellence in private practice. This model starts by bringing together great people with sharp clinical minds and shared values, trained to provide cutting-edge treatment. Second, we hold ourselves accountable with objective data, enhanced by a culture of mastery and innovation. Third, we maintain a singluar focus:  caring for you and your family.​
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