Clinical Expertise

Dr. Feigon is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of experience in the delivery of evidence based therapies for anxiety disorders, including social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and specific phobias. She also treats obsessive compulsive disorder, illness anxiety disorder, mood disorders, grief, and other conditions in adults and late adolescents. She utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP), progressive relaxation training, and other empirically supported approaches. She incorporates skills from acceptance-based therapies, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Dr. Feigon tailors her methods to the unique preferences, attributes, and values of her patients. She aims for a warm, collaborative and empathetic style. Dr. Feigon prides herself on her genuineness and is often described by patients she has helped as “real” and approachable.

Dr. Feigon is a senior clinician 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. Feigon has worked with people of diverse backgrounds with respect to ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nationality, immigration status, religion, gender identity, sexuality, neurodivergence, and disability. She strives to explore how patients’ unique identities may impact their experience of mental health symptoms, as well as the process of therapy. She works collaboratively with her patients to explore and understand experiences and stressors that may be tied to their unique identities and how therapy can best be tailored to address their unique needs.

Training

Dr. Feigon earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at Emory University, where her graduate research focused on understanding the genetic and environmental underpinnings of anxiety and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents. Her internship at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston included a 6-month elective in an anxiety disorders specialty clinic that served patients with anxiety disorders, traumatic stress, and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Her postdoctoral fellowship in the Emory University Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program allowed her to gain additional experience delivering CBT for social anxiety disorder in a group format.

Prior to joining CPG, Dr. Feigon served as staff psychologist at the Emory University Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program and later at UMass Memorial Medical Center, where she developed and ran group programs for social anxiety disorder, other anxiety disorders, and depression. Subsequently, Dr. Feigon founded her own practice, where she focused on evidence-based therapies for anxiety disorders in adults and late adolescents.

Supervision and Teaching

In her role as staff psychologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center, Dr. Feigon presented seminars to medical residents and clinical staff focused on empirically supported approaches for anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder. She also supervised medical residents and psychology interns in the delivery of group cognitive behavioral treatments for social anxiety disorder, other anxiety disorders, and depression.

Education

• Brown University, BA
• Emory University, PhD in Clinical Psychology
• University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Predoctoral Internship
• Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, Postdoctoral Fellowship

Hobbies

Dr. Feigon enjoys listening to her eclectic music collection (favoring the 1960’s to early 2000’s), enjoying Boston area restaurants, making gemstone and pearl jewelry, and spending time with family and friends.