Sam Birkenholz, Psy.D.

Sam Birkenholz, Psy.D. is a postdoctoral fellow at The Reeds Center specializing in the treatment of OCD and anxiety-related disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults. She has extensive experience utilizing evidence-based interventions, including cognitive-behavioral treatments (CBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and other acceptance-based treatments (ACT).

She has received specialized training in the treatment of feeding and eating disorders using CBT-E, family-based treatment (FBT), and perceptual retraining (mirror exposure).

Sam received her doctorate in Combined School-Clinical Psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She has trained across a wide variety of treatment settings, including public schools, outpatient mental health clinics, intensive outpatient and day treatment programs, and both acute and state inpatient hospitals. Sam completed her predoctoral internship at New York City Children’s Center-Queens, a facility for children and teens facing severe mental health concerns. Her dissertation focused on exploring the status of graduate-level education in exposure-based interventions and identifying educational, training, and supervisory factors that make future clinicians more likely to utilize exposure in practice.