GreenwichPsych

 

Pamela is passionate about improving mental health in the lives of the children, adolescents, and adults that she treats. She specializes in caring for those with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and behavioral issues. She uses the latest proven techniques to address anger management, substance abuse, emotion dysregulation, overcontrol, relationship issues, trauma, and self-harm. Pamela also provides parent guidance by using behavioral parent training to help families address children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors.

Pamela’s therapeutic style is empathic and collaborative, using a strengths-based, client-centered approach. She is trained in the most sophisticated and up-to-date treatments proven to be effective. She has advanced training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Exposure-response Prevention (ERP), and Compassion-focused Therapy (CFT).

Pamela earned a PhD in Psychology and was clinically trained at Harvard and Columbia University. For her master’s in Psychology at Harvard, she focused her studies on the pathogenesis of anxiety and the neuroscience underlying obsessive-compulsive disorder. She is proud to have studied evidence-based treatments for anxiety under Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Sperling, Program Director of the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program at McLean Hospital. Pamela also earned a master’s in Social Work at Columbia, where her studies centered around evidence-based treatments for trauma and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Pamela completed a DBT internship with Suffolk DBT, where she provided individual psychotherapy and co-facilitated DBT skills training groups. Pamela practiced at the Wilkins Center in Greenwich, Connecticut. Pamela also holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern University and has helped countless individuals reach their life goals.

Pamela lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with her husband, four boys, and two dogs. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, National Association of Social Workers, and American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Pamela is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Connecticut, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts, and a Licensed Master Social Worker in New York . She offers in-person psychotherapy at the Greenwich office and remotely.