Clinical Expertise

Dr. Peters is a clinical psychologist who uses a strengths-based approach grounded in evidence-based treatments including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She works with adults who feel stuck, are experiencing depression, anxiety, life transitions, or seemingly unsurmountable challenges. Dr. Peters’ authenticity, ability to empathize, encourage, and challenge her clients creates a safe, welcoming space, where her clients learn new skills, explore, and grow. Dr. Peters combines evidenced-based treatment with a creative, culturally sensitive, collaborative, person-centered approach. Her goal for each client is to help them create and live their best life.

Dr. Peters is an exposure therapist for the Intensive CBT Program for Anxiety and OCD, a 2-week accelerated treatment program that provides concentrated individual CBT and exposure therapy to adults and adolescents with OCD, social anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, health anxiety, and specific phobias.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Dr. Peters has experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds. She brings curiosity and an evolving awareness of our multiple identities, intersectionality, and how experiences and culture shape who we are, how we think, and how we experience our inner and external relationships. She has worked with underserved and disadvantaged individuals both professionally and personally. Dr. Peters has spent much of her adult life in community service, working with agencies and non-profit organizations, with the goal of changing the world one person at a time. Her lifelong commitment to this goal is what incentivized her to become a psychologist. Dr. Peters is committed to ongoing self-reflection and learning about differences and similarities that shape and inform her work with clients.

Training

Dr. Peters received her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from William James College. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Brattleboro Retreat (Brattleboro, VT) and her postdoctoral fellowship through Brown University’s Clinical Psychology Program at the Alpert Medical School. Her training at Brown included working at the Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center with rotations in Psychosocial Rehabilitation, the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team, Early Episode Psychosis Program, and Veterans Justice Outreach Program. She was also a member of the Suicide Prevention and Intervention Group (SPRING) research team. At the Brattleboro Retreat, Dr. Peters provided care for an acute population in the Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP).

Research and Teaching

Dr. Peters’ research has been printed in peer reviewed publications and presented at national and international conferences. Her research has focused on older adults with dependent adult children, the use of technology in mental health treatment, personality disorders in older age, resilience, life after divorce, suicide, and dysfunctional family dynamics. Dr. Peters was a research assistant for Erlene Rosowsky, Ph.D. and a teaching assistant for Natalie Cort, Ph.D.

Education

• University of Massachusetts at Amherst, BA
• Suffolk University, MBA
• William James College, PsyD in Clinical Psychology
• Brattleboro Retreat, Predoctoral Internship
• Clinical Psychology Program at the Alpert Medical School of Brown, Postdoctoral Fellowship