Michael Fresé, Ph.D.

Dr. Michael Fresé is a Clinical Psychologist (license # PSY23493) specializing in geropsychology and military psychology.

He is the Staff Psychologist at the 396-bed California State Veterans Home (CalVet) in West Los Angeles, where he provides all of the psychological evaluations, psychological assessment/testing, and psychotherapy services to resident Veterans and their spouses. In addition to his medical staff appointment at CalVet, Dr. Fresé is also a Psychologist at UCLA in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, where he is part of an expert team of clinicians providing cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) at the UCLA Insomnia Clinic. When he isn’t providing direct patient care, Dr. Fresé offers staff consultation and in-house trainings at various skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities throughout the greater Los Angeles area, identifying ways to address and implement non-pharmacological behavioral interventions for dementia care as well as teaching coping strategies to address compassion fatigue and grief among nursing and social services staff members.

Dr. Fresé is an active member of the American Psychological Association, California Psychological Association, and Psychologists in Long Term Care.