Dr. Nakia Hamlett

I received my doctorate in clinical psychology from The University at Albany, State University of New York. I completed pre-and postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine on a clinical team treating children, families, and young adults experiencing serious psychiatric impairment in the context of complex trauma, poverty, parental substance abuse, domestic violence, and other intense psychosocial stressors. I also hold a Master’s Degree in Special Education, specializing in Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, from the University at Maryland, College Park.

Over the span of two decades, fourteen years of which I’ve been working as a licensed clinical psychologist. I have developed expertise in the treatment of complex psychiatric problems, child development, complex trauma, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy, personality, and psychological assessment. 

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