My hope is to provide a warm, non-judgmental, safe therapeutic space that allows you to give voice to what has been difficult to face.

 

I am an LGBTQI+ affirming, inclusive therapist. I take an intersectional approach to understand how your various identities (e.g., culture, sex, gender, race, class, religion) interact and influence your relationship to power structures and ideologies.

 

I have training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, specifically Object Relations, Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman Method (Level 1) for couples. I practice from an integrative framework, combining deep insight and understanding into patterns in your relationships with directive skills to affect change in your daily life. I am currently in a two-year certificate program at the Object Relations Institute.

 

I have experience working with depression, anxiety, women's health, trauma, relationship conflict, identity concerns, grief/loss, transitional life phases, and career/academic stress.

 

I have speciality interests working with birthing parents and their partners through pregnancy and postpartum as well as couples of all ages and backgrounds experiencing relationship distress.

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Training:

I earned my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium. My doctoral research focused on establishing a time-limited group therapy for parents of preterm infants born in the neonatal intensive care unit. During my clinical training, I worked at Palo Alto VA, Stanford Psychiatry, Partnerships for Trauma Recovery--a community mental health clinic serving asylum seekers and refugees--, San Francisco VA, Sepulveda VA, and The Motherhood Center of NY.

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I previously worked as a clinical psychologist at The Motherhood Center of NY, which serves birthing parents and their partners experiencing a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD) and a clinical supervisor at Pace University.

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Relevant publications:

 

Shaw, R.J., Moreyra, A., Simon, S., Wharton, E., Dowtin, L.L., Armer, E., Wallace Goldman, L., Borkovi, T., Neri, E., Jo, B., Hintz, S., Van Meurs, K., Horwitz, S.M. (2023). Group trauma focused cognitive behavior therapy for parents of premature infants compared to individual therapy intervention. Early Human Development, 181. 

 

Simon, S., Moreyra, A., Wharton, E., Downtin, L.L., Borkovi, T.C., Armer, E. & Shaw, R.J. (2021). Prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in mothers of preterm infants using trauma-focused group therapy: Manual development and evaluation. Early Human Development, 154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105282.

 

Moreyra, A., Simon, S., Wharton, E., Borkovi, T.C., Shaw, R.J. (2021). Group-based trauma intervention for mothers of premature infants. In Treatment of Psychological Distress in Parents of Premature Infants (p. 247-77). Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

 

Moreyra, A., Downtin, L.L., Ocampo, M., Perez, E., Borkovi, T.C., Wharton, E., Simon, S., Armer, E.G., & Shaw, R.J. (2021). Implementing a standardized screening protocol for parental depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Early Human Development, 154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105279