SOCIAL ANXIETY THERAPY
LOS ANGELES

CLINIC REPRESENTATIVE TO NSAC:
Michelle Dexter, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Director of Training at Behavioral Associates Los Angeles. She serves on the Board of Directors for the National Social Anxiety Center and is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of evidence-based treatment for Social Anxiety Disorders. Dr. Dexter specializes in mindfulness-based, empirically-supported treatments for a variety of anxiety and mood disorders. She has experience skillfully implementing empirically-supported treatments to a broad range of clients in both group and individual settings, including Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Unified Protocol for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP).

Emanuel Maidenberg, Ph.D. is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Clinic at Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles.

He has been training mental health professionals and psychiatry residents and providing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for a variety of Anxiety Disorders and Depression for over 25 years.

Dr. Maidenberg has been frequently quoted in the media on questions related to coping with natural disasters, daily life stressors, and a preoccupation with physical appearance.

Michael Treanor, Ph.D. is a National Institute of Mental Health post-doctoral fellow in the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Research Center.

Dr. Treanor received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and completed a pre-doctoral internship at the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

He specializes in exposure-based therapy for Anxiety Disorders, and his research examines methods for enhancing exposure therapy through selective targeting of associative learning mechanisms.

Deborah Schleicher, Psy.D. is a licensed staff psychologist and clinical supervisor at UCLA’s Counseling and Psychological Services. Dr. Schleicher received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Alliant International University in San Francisco, California and her B.S. in psychology from San Diego State University.

Prior to working at UCLA, Dr. Schleicher completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Loyola Marymount University’s Student Psychological Services center and an APA-Accredited internship at Western Youth Services in Orange County, CA. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety, panic disorder and depression utilizing empirically-supported treatments including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Unified Protocol (UP), Mindfulness and Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP). Her clinical interests include issues related to emerging adulthood, transitional and adjustment issues, relational issues, family therapy, and complex trauma. Dr. Schleicher actively provides workshops and trainings throughout UCLA on prevention of and response to sexual assault.

Richard LeBeau, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher in the Anxiety and Depression Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. LeBeau was trained by world leaders in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxiety disorders. During this training, he gained expertise in several additional evidence-based interventions, including mindfulness-based stress reduction and cognitive processing therapy for PTSD. An additional area of expertise and interest is working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) clients.