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Roshnee Vázquez, PhD is a licensed psychologist with over 10 years experience. Dr. Vázquez is licensed to provide psychological services in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. She is able to provide telehealth services in the state of Florida. Dr. Vázquez has special interest and expertise in perinatal mental health, women's health, life transitions, severe depression, mood disorders, managing intense emotions, recovery/sobriety, and LGBTQ+ mental health. She has specialized training around multiculturalism and social justice issues as they pertain to mental health. She approaches her work from a strengths based perspective with the aim of empowering individuals while they tackle areas they want to change or improve.

Dr. Vázquez received her bachelor’s degree from The College of New Jersey and her doctorate from Columbia University. She began her career with a predoctoral internship at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital where she had specialized training in personality disorders, bipolar illness, and psychotic illness. She moved on to a postdoctoral fellowship in university mental health at Montclair State University. She worked at several major New York City hospitals, with specific focuses on substance abuse treatment, LGBTQ+ mental health, and Dialectical Behavioral treatment. Additionally, Dr. Vázquez developed expertise in maternal mental health and the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She brings this myriad of experiences to her private practice.

During Dr. Vázquez’s career she has worked to ensure she provides individuals with the most sustainable and high-quality care. In that pursuit, she considers flexibility in approach to be a key ingredient in committing to the work and remaining in treatment. This has been particularly important when working with individuals employed in high-stress, high-demands professions and with complex lifestyles.

Highlights:

Licensed in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Florida

PhD from Columbia University

Bilingual (English and Spanish)

Special expertise and training: Perinatal mental health - perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, postpartum psychosis, pregnancy loss, terminating pregnancies, selective reduction of multiples, infant loss, IVF pregnancies, trying to conceive, birth trauma, ambivalence around pregnancy, care after psychiatric inpatient hospitalization.

Specific training: social justice/multicultural issues - including LGBTQ health, substance use/recovery

Former faculty appointment at Columbia University

Former Clinical Supervisor at Teachers College, Columbia University and City College of New York

Women’s Mental Health Consortium, member

Psychology Today verified

Notable experience:

• expertise in perinatal mental health

• transitioning into parenthood

• working with individuals discharged from partial hospital programs (PHP)

• navigating identity differences in relationships, raising multiracial/biracial children

• working with individuals with high pressure/stress careers (such as attorneys, physicians, finance, top-level executives)

• working with individuals managing significant life changes/transitions

• supporting individuals in their sobriety

• brief and long-term dynamic therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy

Certificate training:

• 10 Core Principles for Effective Couples Therapy (Gottman)

• Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) Certification

• Certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy