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Durham, NC
Dr. Neacsiu is a clinical psychologist with a primary interest in outpatient interventions for difficulties managing emotional experiences that interfere with well-being.
She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Stimulation Research Center at Duke University. She completed her doctoral work at the University of Washington under the mentorship of Dr. Marsha Linehan and is a past President of the International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (ISITDBT). She has also been appointed as Director of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Mental Health Residency Program at Duke.
As a clinician, she specializes in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for complex and difficult-to-treat cases, such as cases where there are multiple comorbidities, cases combining psychological and medical problems, and BPD cases. As an educator, she trains clinicians nationally and teaches graduate students and psychology and psychiatry residents how to effectively apply CBT and DBT in their clinical work. As a researcher, she has received funding from several federal and private foundations, and her research focuses on optimizing psychotherapy and developing neuroscience-informed treatments for emotion dysregulation and misophonia.
