Psychologists

Dana Thordarson, Ph.D., R.Psych.

Dr. Thordarson is a registered psychologist who specializes in cognitive-behaviour therapy for anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, habit disorders, stress, and depression. She enjoys helping her clients take a practical and active approach to challenging their problems and dismantling the factors that are maintaining their symptoms.

Dr. Thordarson was in intern at the Anxiety Disorders Unit at UBC Hospital and received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UBC in 2000. For her thesis she developed a new measure of obsessive compulsive disorder, the Vancouver Obsessional Compulsive Inventory, and examined the interpretation of obsessions in people with OCD.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the UBC Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Thordarson was the main therapist for a randomized trial of exposure therapy, EMDR, and relaxation training in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder, and she developed a telephone treatment program for adults with obsessive compulsive disorder. She has also worked as a psychologist for the Heart Centre at St. Paul’s Hospital, and as a research associate in behavioural genetics. She is a published researcher in anxiety disorders and behavioural genetics.

In addition to her private practice at NSSAC, Dr. Thordarson teaches in the Division of Midwifery and the Department of Psychology at UBC, and chases her three little boys.


 

Lisa Brown, Ph.D., R.Psych.

William J. Koch, Ph.D., R.Psych., ABPP

Rami Nader, Ph.D., R.Psych.