Dr. Brittany Speed
About me
I am a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State. I established Hudson Valley Psychology to provide greater access to gold-standard evidence-based psychotherapy.
I have specific expertise in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, traumatic stress reactions, insomnia, and functional gastrointestinal disorders. I also have extensive experience treating depression and interpersonal difficulties.
My therapeutic style is warm, compassionate and genuine. While I utilize evidence-based interventions, our treatment approach is flexible and tailored to meet your specific needs and goals.
Education, Training & Experience
I completed my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of British Columbia. I earned my M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University, where I received rigorous training on evidence-based treatments for a wide range of problems. It was during this time that I developed a passion for helping people overcome their anxiety and take back their lives from OCD and trauma.
I completed my clinical psychology predoctoral internship at Stony Brook University Consortium Internship Program, where I continued broadening my clinical training abilities in outpatient mental health and emergency services. I completed my clinical postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where I received intensive training treating anxiety, OCD and trauma as a provider in the Anxiety Disorders Service, and specialized training treating sleep problems and gastrointestinal disorders as a provider in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
I continue to be an active member of the research community, with a focus on evaluating the efficacy of short-term interventions for co-occurring mental and physical health issues. In addition, I am interested in investigating evidence-based strategies to tailor treatment to an individual’s specific needs and increasing access to high-quality care.
Stony Brook University, Department of Psychology, Affiliate Appointment - Clinical Supervisor, Instructor, Community Outreach
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Anxiety Disorders Service and Behavioral Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry and Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Stony Brook University Consortium Internship Program, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Predoctoral Internship
Stony Brook University, M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
University of British Columbia, B.A. in Psychology
Selected Publications and Presentations
Salwen-Dermer, J. K., & Speed, B. C. (2020). Comment on: Incidence of adverse psychiatric events during the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease with biologic therapies: A systematic review. Crohn’s & Colitis 360, 2(1).
Speed, B. C., & Hajcak, G. (2020). Event-related potentials and emotion dysregulation. In T. P. Beauchaine & S. E. Crowell (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotion Dysregulation. Oxford University Press.
Speed, B. C., Goldstein, B. L., & Goldfried, M. R. (2018). Assertiveness training: A forgotten evidence based treatment. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 25(1), 1-20. doi: 10.1111/cpsp.12216
Speed, B. C., Nelson, B. D., Auerbach, R. P., Klein, D. N., & Hajcak, G. (2016). Depression risk and electrocortical reactivity during self-referential emotional processing in 8 to 14 year-old girls. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(6), 607-619.
Speed, B. C., Nelson, B. D., Perlman, G., Klein, D. N., Kotov, R., & Hajcak, G. (2015). Personality and emotional processing: A relationship between extraversion and the late positive potential in adolescence. Psychophysiology, 52(8), 1039-1047. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12436
Fedoroff, I., Blackwell, E., Speed, B. (2014). Evaluation of group and individual change in a multidisciplinary pain management program. Clinical Journal of Pain, 30(5), 399-408