AMY VAN ARSDALE, PHD

Amy Van Arsdale, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with over 15 years of clinical experience. In her private practice, she provides individual therapy, couples therapy, and career counseling. She identifies as an integrative practitioner and specializes in perinatal mental health and vocational psychology. CBT is the foundation of her practice, which she routinely integrates with approaches such as interpersonal, Schema, and multicultural therapy. In her career, Dr. Van Arsdale has worked successfully with patients on a range of concerns including relationship issues, pregnancy and perinatal mental health, career problems, adjustment issues, trauma, mood/anxiety disorders, and other matters.

Dr. Van Arsdale earned a PhD in Counseling Psychology rom the University of Florida and received post-graduate clinical training in Perinatal Mental Health at the Postpartum Stress Center in Rosemont, PA. Active in the psychology community, Dr. Van Arsdale currently serves on the Board of Directors of Division 42 (Independent Practice) of the American Psychological Association and has presented at over twenty national and international conferences. Her work has been published in Practice Innovations, Psychotherapy Research, and The Counseling Psychologist, among others, and she is in the process of co-authoring a chapter in the forthcoming International Handbook of Perinatal Mental Health Disorders.

In addition to clinical work, Dr. Van Arsdale enjoys teaching. A former professor at Marymount University, she currently provides clinical supervision to doctoral students at the University of Denver Graduate School of Professional Psychology and trains therapists, psychologists and psychiatric residents in Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. She has been a PESI speaker since 2016.