Dr. Falconer aims to create a safe space to collaboratively explore your concerns. Her approach is to partner with you in establishing a foundation for healthy patterns and experiences, processing trauma, integrating strengths, and navigating challenges within yourself and in your relationships with others.

Before becoming a psychotherapist, she worked as a neuroscientist, and her therapy approaches are informed by her expertise in neuroscience. She studied how the brain changes with therapy in people who are struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. Her collaborative research was highlighted by the U.S. Veteran’s Affairs National Center for PTSD and U.S. Navy Medicine.

In addition, she has been a Co-Convenor for the Human Rights and Mental Health Working Group of the NGO Committee on Mental Health, a charitable organization in consultative status with the United Nations (UNESCO). She focused on the rights of the mentally ill within the criminal justice system. Related to this work, and as a part of Otsuka Digital Health, she engaged with mental health providers in South Florida to better understand the dynamics of mental healthcare and criminal justice involvement in Miami-Dade County. The work of her team led to collaboration with the White House’s Data-Driven Justice Initiative in 2016.

She completed her MSW at Columbia University in New York and her PhD in Psychology, an academic degree that focused on psychology and neuroscience research, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She also has a Postgraduate Dipl. in the Psychology of Coercive Control from the University of Salford in the UK. In addition, she has a Master of Science in Neuroscience from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Certifications & training also include*:

• Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy Integrated 2-year Trauma Training Program

• Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) Levels 1 (Healing Shock Trauma), 2 (Attachment Wounding), & 3 (Dissociative and Complex Trauma; Frank Corrigan, Ruth Lanius)

• EMDR (EMDRIA-Approved; EMDR Center of the Rockies)

• Progressive Approach to treating Dissociative Disorders with EMDR (Master Class with Dolores Mosquera)

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Trauma Level 1 (Janina Fisher, Amy Gladstone, & Lana Epstein)

• FLASH Technique

• Master Course on Attachment Wounding & Identity in Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma (Integrating EMDR with Sensorimotor Therapy and Ego State/parts work; Lana Epstein)

• Ego State Therapy Foundations (Wendy Lemke)

• American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) Level 1 (Louis Damis)

• Safe & Sound Protocol

Current Memberships:

• International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD)

• EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)

• New York City Association of Trauma Therapists (NYCATT)

• International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)

• American Psychological Association (APA)

• National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

• Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW)

For complex cult and coercive control recovery issues, she regularly consults with seasoned cult recovery psychotherapists and other experts in coercive control intervention.

She provides individual psychotherapy as a LMSW under clinical supervision at Refuge Psychotherapy, LCSW, PLLC in the West Village of New York City. She is also a RSW in Ontario, Canada.

*Some therapy methods may have foundations or associations with neurolinguistic programming (NLP), clinical hypnosis, and Ericksonian (indirect style of) hypnosis. Therapies with an NLP or hypnosis background can contain coercive elements. Dr. Falconer takes this very seriously. If any of these methods are to be used in therapy sessions, an explicit, informed consent process with you is required. Dr. Falconer abides by the ethical use of clinical hypnosis, including guidelines outlined by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH).