Linnea Mavrides (She/her)

Dr. Mavrides's Practice

Dr. Linnea Mavrides is a New York State-licensed psychologist with a private practice office in Park Slope, Brooklyn. She has been successfully practicing individual, couples, and group psychotherapy since receiving her doctoral degree in clinical psychology in 2010.

Education

Dr. Mavrides earned her M.S. and Psy.D. degrees in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University-C.W. Post in Brookville, New York. While there, she received awards for excelling as a "second career" student and for maintaining the highest GPA in her graduating class. Prior to graduate school in psychology, Dr. Mavrides received her BA from Amherst College, graduating magna cum laude, and was an editor and writer for magazines and Web sites.

Pre-doctoral Training

Dr. Mavrides received clinical training, experience, and supervision at the C.W. Post Psychological Services Center in Brookville, NY; Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY; the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services Pride of Judea Clinic in Douglaston, NY; and the Brooklyn Veterans Affairs Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, where she completed her APA-accredited clinical internship. While working primarily with adults in individual and group therapy in these settings, she additionally saw children, adolescents, couples, and families and provided psychological assessment and neuropsychological testing. She received training in inpatient and outpatient settings, as well as on psychiatric emergency and medical units. She treated individuals with conditions ranging from adjustment disorder, depression, and anxiety to alcohol and drug abuse, terminal cancer, Hepatitis-C, HIV, dementia, PTSD, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders, among others.

Additional Training

Dr. Mavrides is a trained childbirth doula, CD(DONA), the certification for which she completed in 2007. While she no longer practices as a labor doula, her experience in this field certainly informs her work with pregnant women and mothers, as well as their partners. While working as a doula, she integrated her psychological training and her childbirth training to provide women and their partners with holistic evaluation and care during the pre-natal, labor, and post-partum periods. Since becoming a psychologist, she has taken additionally training focused on pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, and loss at Seleni in New York City, at the Postpartum Stress Center in Bryn Mawr, PA, and with Postpartum Support Internataional (PSI). She is certified in Perinatal Mental Health through PSI. Additionally, she completed an externship with the Ackerman Institute in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples.

Previous Clinical Work Experience

Prior to opening her private practice, Dr. Mavrides worked at the Staten Island Community-based Outpatient Clinic, part of the New York Harbor Veterans Affairs system. There she provided psychological evaluation and treatment for individuals, couples, and groups dealing with PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic medical conditions, bereavement, alcohol and drug abuse, bariatric surgery, dementia, bipolar disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, schizophrenia, and more. As a member of the Patient-aligned Care Team (PACT), she participated in trainings and presentations in the region concerning this medical model. She also provided supervision to interns and externs and served on the Brooklyn VA's Training Committee.

Teaching

Dr. Mavrides has served as an adjust associate professor or associate professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at Long Island University-Post (LIU-Post) in Brookville, NY since 2011. There she taught courses in the History and Systems of Psychology, Group Psychotherapy, Psychoeducational Groups, Individual Psychotherapy, Clinical Research, Interviewing, Clinical Competency Preparation, and Internship Preparation. She has additionally served on numerous LIU-Post students' dissertation committees and Clinical Competency Examination panels. She also previously taught a course on women and mental health at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Research and Writing

Dr. Mavrides has conducted research on attachment, borderline personality disorder, countertransference, and psychotherapy with children. While much of the research that she mentors at LIU-Post is related to perinatal concerns, she has chaired and sat on committees for research regarding a diverse array of topics. Other topics she has chaired include eating disorder recovery and social media, developing clinical competency in discussing patients' sexual experiences, using table top role-playing games in group therapy, black clinical psychology graduate students' experiences, intimate partner violence in early adulthood, men's experiences with dating in Orthodox Jewish communities, and more. As a former editor and writer for magazines and Web sites, Dr. Mavrides enjoys writing and appreciates the role writing plays in assisting individuals in developing their thoughts and feelings about events and aspects of their lives. A freelance writer prior to her graduate training, she remains available for writing assignments related to mental health.

Associations

Dr. Mavrides is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA), Postpartum Support International (PSI), and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). She belongs to APA Division 35: Society for the Psychology of Women, Division 12: Clinical Psychology, and Division 38: Health Psychology.