Dr. Carmen Lynas earned her Ph.D. from Palo Alto University and completed her clinical internship at Northwestern University Medical School’s Stone Institute of Psychiatry. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Shared Vision Psychological Services in both their pediatric and adult departments. Dr. Lynas provides evidence-based exposure therapy treating children, adolescents, and adults, specializing in social anxiety, selective mutism, separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and related issues, including OCD. Outpatient 1-hr treatments as well as intensive (3-6 hour treatments) are delivered in the clinic, home, school, or community setting. For example, for those coping with social anxiety, the longer sessions allow time for in-vivo exposure therapy to community locations that maximize the exposure and deepen fear extinction. Intensive doses also allow those traveling from further distances to space out their treatment doses without losing momentum. Validated approaches used by Dr. Lynas and her team include exposure and response prevention (ERP), cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), and modified PCIT for selective mutism (PCIT-SM). Dr. Lynas is a member of the Anxiety Association of America (ADAA), the Selective Mutism Association (SMA), The National Register of Health Service Psychologists, and the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) where she also completed the Behavioral Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) program for treating OCD. Additional services include parent guidance, school consultations, school observations, and school in-service trainings.
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