Dr. Cassandra Sanchez is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in autism and neurodevelopmental assessments for young children. She is the founder of TRAIN: Therapeutic and Remedial Assessment and Intervention for Neurodevelopment, where she is dedicated to providing comprehensive, therapeutic, and collaborative evaluations to support children and their families.

Dr. Sanchez is also the Director of Clinical Training at a pediatric neuropsychology clinic within UCSF, leading supervision of doctoral candidates in neurodevelopmental evaluation and autism assessment. She is academic faculty at the UCSF School of Medicine, where she trains future clinicians in evidence-based assessment practices. While she is committed to her work at UCSF, her primary focus is TRAIN and ensuring that families receive the highest quality care through her private practice.

A Latina psychologist and Spanish speaker, Dr. Sanchez is passionate about increasing access to culturally responsive neurodevelopmental evaluations. She takes a child-centered, neurodiversity-affirming approach, collaborating closely with families and schools to develop tailored strategies that honor each child’s strengths and challenges.

Dr. Sanchez earned her Bachelor of Science (BS) in Psychology and Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Spanish from Santa Clara University, followed by a Master of Arts in Clinicaly Psychology (MA) and Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) from the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University. Her clinical training took place at UCSF and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), where she also completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship specializing in autism, neurodevelopmental, and neuropsychological evaluations for young children..

Outside of her clinical work, Dr. Sanchez enjoys reading, knitting, and baking. She and her husband share their lives with two corgis, and she is currently training one of them for animal-assisted therapy to further support children in her practice.