Dr. Clark prioritizes building a strong therapist-client relationship to ensure that clients and their families feel comfortable in therapy. She pulls from a variety of evidence-based methods to create a personalized approach. She regularly checks in with clients to ensure that they feel heard and feel therapy is effective for them. Dr. Clark believes therapy should never happen “to” a client, but rather “with” a client, in a collaborative, dynamic approach. She takes a strengths-based approach to therapy. She approaches her work with openness, humor, and warmth.

Dr. Clark has training across Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), CAMS-care, CAMS-4Teens, behavioral management training, and Motivational Interviewing (MI). She also has extensive background in psychological assessment, including neuropsychological and psychoeducational testing experience. She is therefore able to pull from a range of evidence-based therapies to create an approach that works for the individual client. She highly values collaboration with care teams, including with psychiatrists and physicians, school personnel, and other treatment providers.

Dr. Clark earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, graduating summa cum laude and with honors in major. She then worked as a research assistant at Stanford University in the social psychology department, managing large research projects and working on educational interventions. She attended the University of New Orleans, from which she received her Master of Science degree in Applied Developmental Psychology. She then moved on to Louisiana State University, earning her PhD in Clinical Psychology, with a focus on child psychology. Her APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship was at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute (now called the Huntsman Mental Health Institute) in Salt Lake City, where she worked with children, adolescents, and adults hospitalized for psychiatric concerns. She completed two years of postdoctoral fellowship through Morrissey-Compton Educational Center in Redwood City, California, where she received extensive training in comprehensive psychoeducational and psychological assessments, co-led child groups, and saw clients for individual therapy and parent coaching.

Dr. Clark has worked across a range of settings, client ages, and presenting concerns throughout her years as a clinician. The settings in which she has worked include: an outpatient medical pediatric clinic, an outpatient assessment clinic, a day treatment summer camp for children with ADHD, multiple inpatient psychiatric hospitals, a partial hospitalization program, an outpatient nonprofit educational and psychological clinic, an outpatient organization contracted with DFPS to provide services for children in the foster care system, and a group private practice.