Background and training:

Dr. Roman earned her Psy.D in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. Prior to attending Rutgers, she graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in Psychology. She completed her APA-accredited pre-doctoral clinical internship at UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services and her postdoctoral fellowship at CBT/DBT Associates.

Since the beginning of her training as a psychologist, Dr. Roman has valued evidence-based approaches to therapy and has sought out experiences to develop expertise in these treatments. During a graduate school placement at the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA), she completed specialized training in exposure therapy for anxiety disorders and trauma, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD and Prolonged Exposure (PE) for PTSD. Through her role as a therapist in an eating disorders research study at Rutgers University, she learned how to implement CBT for binge eating disorder and bulimia (CBT-E), and she continues to provide this therapy today.

During graduate school, Dr. Roman was involved in clinical work and research at the Rutgers University Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Clinic under the mentorship of Dr. Shireen Rizvi. It was there that she began learning DBT and working with adults with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and college students with emotion regulation difficulties. She was also intensively trained in DBT through Behavioral Tech, the gold standard of DBT training.

Dr. Roman became aware of her passion for working with young adult clients throughout her time training in various college counseling centers. Prior to founding Elevate CBT, she served as the Director of the Young Adult program at CBT/DBT Associates. Over the years, she has helped many emerging adults become more independent and navigate the unique challenges of this phase of life.

Professional Affiliations:

Outside of her work with clients, she enjoys opportunities to contribute to the CBT and DBT community, including co-authoring a book chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy on strategies for skills generalization in DBT. She supervises Mount Sinai psychiatry residents in their implementation of CBT, and is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), the New York area Women’s Mental Health Consortium, and the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). She currently serves on the leadership board for the IOCDF special interest group focused on the overlap of OCD and Eating Disorders.

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