About
Dr. Jose Quezada Cardenas has been a licensed clinical psychologist since 1988, and he is the CEO of Luminarias Institute Inc., which he founded in 2014. Luminarias is a community mental health treatment, training, and research agency based in the San Fernando Valley with a mission to de-stigmatize mental health and train future culturally competent therapists. Dr. Cardenas earned his PsyD degree from Baylor University in Texas and was an intern and minority teaching fellow at Boston University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry-Psychology. Recognized for his previous work with school-based and community mental health programs, Dr. Cardenas has presented and published his research on the needs of immigrant children, school violence, and child sexual abuse. Dr. Cardenas also appeared as a mental health expert on Spanish-language television.