Our Staff

Dr. Carolyn Bahoh earned her bachelors degree in Psychology from California State University, Chico. Following this she obtained her Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco. Her graduate studies emphasized women’s issues, health psychology, and the mind-body connection with her dissertation focusing on the psychological impact of illegal abortions pre Roe v. Wade. Dr. Bahoh completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral residency at the University of California, Davis Academic and Staff Assistance Program.

Dr. Bahoh’s experience encompasses providing brief and long-term individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy to culturally diverse adolescents and adults. Her work has included utilizing evidenced based interventions and best practice guidelines in addressing the needs of individuals with mild to severe mental illness and co-occurring disorders. As the Clinical Director of Turning Point Community Programs Regional Support Team in Sacramento, CA, Dr. Bahoh provided an array of treatment to consumers as well as clinical supervision, management, and assisted in developing and streamlining clinical services. Additionally, Dr. Bahoh has extensive experience with crisis intervention, consultation, and debriefing, and has helped create and facilitate a multitude of presentations and trainings.

Dr. Bahoh approaches clinical work from a holistic standpoint and integrates different modalities and techniques in providing individualized treatment. Her training includes Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic, Humanistic-Existentialism, and Solution-Focused Therapy. She has extensive work facilitating the treatment of depression, anxiety, trauma, substance abuse issues, and relationship difficulties, as well as helping individuals overcome life challenges and create lasting change. Dr. Bahoh’s areas of emphasis include mindfulness, women’s issues, life transitions, health and wellness. She has specific training and interest in working with individuals who have cancer and their loved ones. Dr. Bahoh is a member of the American Psychological Association and the California Psychological Association.

Summer Nipomnick, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been involved in the treatment of eating disorders for over a decade. She returns to New Dawn Treatment Centers after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center where she was actively engaged in the Body Image Therapy and Research Program. Dr. Nipomnick earned a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy from John F. Kennedy University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of California Davis Medical Center and received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Graduate University.

Dr. Nipomnick’s experience includes individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy with pediatric, adolescent and adult inpatients and outpatients. She worked as a therapist with the Association of Professionals Treating Eating Disorders in San Francisco, CA where she helped develop and implement a low-fee outpatient therapy clinic for adults and adolescents with eating disorders. Dr. Nipomnick helped launch La Ventana Eating Disorder Programs San Francisco-based partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient treatment programs. She formerly worked at New Dawn Treatment Centers in their intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization and residential treatment programs.

Dr. Nipomnick has extensive training in the eating disorder field, as well as crisis intervention, and work with patients who have co-morbid medical and psychiatric conditions. Her research has focused on psychological control and recovery from anorexia nervosa along with body image and behavioral health interventions and outcomes. She has presented research at national and international conferences and has published articles in these fields. She is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders and the American Psychological Association.