Dr. Norah Wallace, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
About Norah
Norah Wallace, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist at CBT for Better Living. She specializes in the treatment of individuals across the lifespan, with a particular emphasis on working with children, adolescents, and young adults.
She has expertise in using evidence-based treatments for OCD and the obsessive compulsive spectrum, body focused repetitive behaviors, and anxiety disorders among all ages. She also has extensive training and experience in working with the full spectrum of eating disorders. Finally, Norah also has expertise and experience in working with individuals across the lifespan who have experienced multiple forms of trauma.
Through her work with children, adolescents, and adults with a variety of diagnoses and presenting problems, Norah uses a range of cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT), including exposure and response prevention (ERP), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) informed treatments. She has a profound respect and understanding of the science behind evidence-based treatments, as well as an appreciation for the complexities of the human experience, and how therapy is both an art and a science, requiring a clinician to think flexibly and meet a client where they are.
Norah has received feedback from clients that she is warm, nonjudgmental, and down to earth.
Clinical Training
Dr. Wallace completed her predoctoral internship at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) in their child and adolescent training program. At UBHC in Newark, she worked extensively with children, adolescents, and adults who had experienced trauma, as well as a variety of other presenting problems such as depression, OCD, eating disorders, and behavioral issues. She participated in multiple levels of care at UBHC, working in the partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient program, as well as outpatient department. Dr. Wallace completed her postdoctoral training at a group private practice specializing in the treatment of OCD. There, she received further specialized training in ERP, the gold standard, evidence-based treatment for OCD spectrum disorders while continuing to gain experience with eating disorders, anxiety, and trauma work.
Dr. Wallace completed externships throughout graduate school at Newark Beth Israel’s Regional Diagnostic Treatment Center (RDTC) serving child victims of physical and sexual assault, Fairleigh Dickinson’s Center for Psychological Services working with individuals across the lifespan with a variety of presenting problems, and Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Children’s Day Unit, a partial hospitalization program for high school students struggling with school refusal and significant mental health issues. Throughout her graduate program, Dr. Wallace also participated in a comprehensive training program for eating disorders led by a leader in the eating disorder’s field. She was trained in enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-E) and family based treatment (FBT) for the full spectrum of eating and feeding disorders. She has also developed expertise in utilizing ACT and features of DBT for eating and feeding concerns. Dr. Wallace is passionate about helping individuals of all body sizes in their struggles with eating disorders and disordered eating alike, and operates from a health at every size (HAES) perspective, with a commitment to combating anti-fat biases in her practice.
Education & Research
Dr. Wallace received her BA from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She obtained both her MA and PhD from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Clinical Psychology Program. Her research interests include investigating factors of resiliency such as character strengths that can help protect individuals exposed to trauma or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) from developing pathology related to these experiences. Dr. Wallace is a member of the NYC-CBT Association.
Contact
Phone
Location
Virtual Sessions
Virtual sessions anywhere in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Florida