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 using evidence-based therapies to treat OCD, anxiety and mood disorders, misophonia, body-focused repetitive behaviors, and trauma; these treatments include CBT, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP), and other mindfulness-based interventions (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.