She earned her Ph. Her goal as a therapist is to help people grow into their authentic selves through development of self-awareness and strategies that help them overcome difficulties to live fuller, more meaningful lives.
She works primarily with adults across the lifespan, and works with clients with anxiety including Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety, Panic Disorder , Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders including OCD, Skin-Picking, and Hair Pulling , and trauma-related disorders, including trauma related to chronic experiences of racism and discrimination.
As an Iranian-American, she is dedicated to helping people of color, who can have negative experiences in therapy if they feel their therapist is not validating their experiences of explicit discrimination and implicit microaggressions. In addition, she completes and supervises psychological evaluations, assessing for ADHD, learning disabilities, and differential diagnosis, among other issues. When she is not working, Ida enjoys spending time with her two young children and partner, listening to music, making elaborate and poorly decorated cakes, and being outdoors.
She brings nearly a decade of administrative and clinical experience to her role as Intake Coordinator at ECAS, and enjoys helping clients find compassionate, culturally responsive care to suit their unique needs and experiences.
In her free time, Gwen enjoys hiking, cycling, reading novels, listening to records, and spending time with her husband and their two guinea pigs. However, having a BS in Psychology, she always wanted to work in a behavioral health setting. Working at ECAS is a dream come true for her. As office manager, her main objective is to assist the clinic across the board⦠the admin staff, clinicians and most importantly the clients.
