Dr Barnett has over 30 years of experience in evaluation and treatment of various psychological conditions.

Her services include evaluation and treatment of the following:

Attention Deficit Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorders and co-occurring Disorders
Child Attachement issues
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Adjustment difficulties, Grieving
Marital/ relationship confilcts – Couples Therapy

Accepted insurances: Aetna, Atlantis, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Anthem BS, Cigna, GHI-HIP-Emblem Health, Healthnet, Oxford, United Healthcare

self pay fee for uninsured: $125 per 1 hour session

Appointments

Child psychology appointments: Upper East Side: Saturdays 3 pm – 8 pm
Adult psychology appointments: Columbus Circle: Fridays 7:30pm – 10pm, Sundays 3pm – 8pm

Educational background:
Bronx High School of Science
Bachelor of Art, New York University, College of Arts and Science
Master of Science, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science
Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience (“Experimental Neurocognition”)-Clinical Psychology
Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy track, certificate program
Postdoctoral fellowship, Autism and Developmental Disabilities, New York State OMRDD, New York University Medical Center-Bellevue Hospital Center

Interests:
 Confluence of cognitive factors and personality dynamics developing leadership.
 Chromosomal translocations and deletion errors expressing neurodevelopmental delay and theircognitive markers.
 Early psychosis, structural brain changes, neurological signs, and executive/memory impairments genomics.
 Neuromodulatory agents involved in affiliation, bonding, social perception, and intentionality: hormonal cofactors in attachment disorders.
 Neuroprotective and plasticity enhancement interventions in chronic schizophrenia and in prodromal or early detections of basal forebrain and temporal-hippocampal networks acquired injury / deteriorative conditions.
 Behavior change in limbic system drive-incentive dysmodulation and affective correlates mediating drug tolerance and dependence.
 Cognitive remediation protocol design individualized to executive, attention, and spatial integration deficits secondary to traumatic brain injury, mild cognitive impairment with age, and difficulties affecting attention-working memory in epilepsy.
 Psychotherapy attuned to early adversity and impoverishment, individualized to young children, adolescents, adults, couples, and older individuals.
 Inhibition and conformity as factors mediating interpersonal discord.
 Pathogeneses occurring during pregnancy and birth as etiologic to autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder.