About
Meet DR. Snyder
A mindful and compassionate approach to therapy
My approach to therapy is to provide you with an opportunity to slow down and attend to underlying emotions, thoughts, and patterns. I offer a calming space, along with gentle, honest feedback and guidance that allows you to look more deeply at what is holding you back from healing, living fully, and loving well.
Our aim is to help illuminate how your current and past relationships and life events, mental illness, cultural challenges, transitions, and/or relationships are impacting your thoughts, feelings, body, behaviors, and personal connections today. Together, we will identify what keeps you stuck and unfulfilled, so that you can recognize and act on alternative choices. In therapy, you can activate self-compassion, insight, empathy and renewed energy to integrate healthier behaviors into your life and live with more fulfillment, meaning, authenticity, and connectedness.
Current Faculty Appointments:
- Faculty for Couples Therapy Training Program, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
- Faculty & Steering Committee Member for Center for Couple and Family Studies, Washington School of Psychiatry
Professional Affiliations:
Credentials
I am a compassionate clinician in private practice since 2006. I earned a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at The George Washington University. As part of my doctoral training, I completed an internship at American University Counseling Center as well as externships at Georgetown University Counseling Center and a low-fee mental health clinic.
My background includes working as a clinician at an eating disorder center, and with elementary and middle school children and families at a school-based community health center. I have provided short-term and long-term counseling services, crisis intervention, outreach, psychological testing, and consultation. Currently, I serve on the faculty of The George Washington University as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, where I supervise students in training. I have previously taught graduate and undergraduate courses at The George Washington University and Trinity Washington University.
Specialty Training
I regularly engage in personal and professional development so as to provide the best services possible.
Certifications:
- Couples Training Program, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
- Level I Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Sensorimotory Psychotherapy Institute
- Supervision Training Program, Washington School of Psychiatry
- MoneyHarmony with Olivia Mellon
Before beginning my psychology career, I earned a Master’s degree in International Communication and worked in international education, providing cross-cultural communication training, consultations, and programming for students, faculty, and professionals from all over the world. I speak Spanish and continue to work with immigrants, international students, and first-generation U.S. citizens as a psychologist.
