Alex is an intern completing the final year of her doctoral training through a consortium placement at Peak City Psychology and The New School Montessori Center. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in School Psychology at North Carolina State University. Prior to her graduate training, Alex graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology and minors in Anthropology and Italian. She then went on to complete her M.S. in Psychology at Villanova University in 2021. Although she moved to Raleigh for graduate training, Alex has longstanding ties to the Triangle area through family.

Alex’s research and clinical interests focus on supporting resilience in children and families, particularly those navigating loss, transitions, and adversity. She is passionate about taking the time to truly understand each student, family, and larger system to help them meet their unique personal, family, and educational goals. She enjoys working with parents of all ages in group or family therapy as well as providing individual therapy and assessments for children through young adulthood. Alex integrates a range of evidence-based approaches and therapeutic modalities in her clinical work, commonly pulling from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). She is a certified Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) provider and a rostered Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) clinician in North Carolina, with additional training in the Toddler adaptation of PCIT (PCIT-T). She especially enjoys supporting co-regulation and connection in early childhood through play, emotion-regulation and executive function skill building in children and young adults, as well as students and families navigating school and special education systems.

Alex has completed practicum placements and trainings at Wake County Public Schools, Hope Services LLC, Duke’s Center for Child and Family Health, UNC’s TEACCH Autism Program, Project Enlightenment, and NCSU’s Psychoeducational Clinic. Alex served as an academic advisor to undergraduate psychology students for three years at NC State before transitioning to her role as a Clinic Assistant at the university’s Psychoeducational Clinic, where she has provided evaluations, therapy, and parenting support for the past two years. She also works part-time as a Clinical Research Assessor for the UNC School of Medicine, providing psychological and developmental assessments in support of longitudinal public health research.