Dr. Rubin Khoddam
Clinical Psychologist and Founder of COPE Psychological Center
Rubin Khoddam, PhD (he/him) is a Clinical Psychologist and Founder of COPE Psychological Center, an evidence-based mental health treatment center based in Los Angeles and providing care across California. Dr. Rubin has a particular specialty in building resiliency for individuals dealing with addiction, trauma, depression and/or anxiety.
Dr. Rubin earned his doctorate from the University of Southern California, has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse for his work in addiction, and has published 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Currently, in addition to seeing clients at COPE, Dr. Rubin is also the Team Lead for a residential rehabilitation treatment program for veterans struggling with addiction and homelessness at the West Los Angeles VA and is on faculty in UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
More personally, Dr. Rubin is the youngest of four children and raised by immigrant Persian parents. As a result of his upbringing, he recognizes the unique cultural identities that have shaped our personalities. Many of us have faced hardships throughout life that were endemic to the specific family we were raised in and some of us have experienced more pervasive oppression as a result of systematic, sociopolitical forces. Unfortunately, some of us have experienced both. Dr. Rubin strives to integrate all these factors and facets in one’s identity in helping to foster a sense of resiliency within his clients.
