About Dr. Therese

 
“My mission is to help people love their lives so they never want to leave them.”

Dr. Therese Mascardo, Psy.D., a California native and UC Berkeley grad, is not your typical psychologist—she's an author, a speaker, and a beacon of positivity who feels more like a friend.

She openly shares her journey as a Filipina-American, including navigating her own mental health challenges and coping with the loss of her brother to suicide in 2009.

From encouraging people to go to therapy to sharing her passion for food, travel, and hospitality, she's dedicated herself to a singular mission: helping people love their lives so they never want to leave them. 

Whether collaborating with Vice, HuffPost, Women's Health, the American Psychological Association, or the National Alliance on Mental Health, teaching to Medcircle’s 1.5 million YouTube followers as a featured doctor, or connecting with her own community on social media, Dr. Therese radiates a commitment to living a healthy, free, and connected life.

Her infectious inspiration encourages everyone to not just exist but to embrace a life they truly adore, and serves as a reminder that self-care is a journey worth taking.

Excitingly, Dr. Therese has just unveiled her debut 'Love The Journey' Workbook & Journal in collaboration with Ban.do. This full-color workbook features purposeful prompts and exercises straight from the therapy room to help you appreciate the everyday moments better and build a life you don’t need a vacation from. She is based in Lisbon and Los Angeles.

 

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Want to know more? Here are 15 fun facts about me ...

  1. I cannot: Watch scary movies. Period.

  2. My 3 main fuel sources: Mexican food, chocolate (Cadbury Mini Eggs, anyone?), and tea lattes (preferably Earl Grey or lavender).

  3. The famous people I’d love to be friends with: Gwen Stefani, Oprah, and Chrissy Teigen.

  4. My uniform if I could only wear one thing for the rest of my life: yoga pants.

  5. Popular things I’d be fine living without: drinking coffee regularly, elaborate nail art, & cats.

  6. Favorite travel memory: Hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia, Turkey.

  7. My special skills/secret party tricks: doing the moonwalk, making pesto from scratch.

  8. Best inventions ever: seat warmers in cars, the wireless cell phone charger, Japanese toilets (if you know, you know.)

  9. My favorite things to do on a Sunday: Sleep in, farmers market, brunch, maybe go to the beach, read, meal prep, and plan the week.

  10. I would go into mourning if: all the Targets in the world disappeared.

  11. I’m never not in the mood for: a little Bruno Mars.

  12. Best life hack: a toss up between white noise machines and audio books.

  13. If I wasn’t a psychologist, I would be: a host for a cooking show or running a non-profit.

  14. Favorite Disney Movie: Moana (because we have the same hair and love for the ocean.)

  15. Songs that pump me up/boost my mood: “The Climb” and “Party in the USA” by Miley Cyrus,“Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift, “This is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan.