Dr. Price currently works as the Assistant Training Director at the Navy’s largest training site for psychologists. In this role, Dr. Price assists the Training Director in recruiting, training, program development, data collection and analysis, as well as maintaining APA accreditation for both the Navy Internship program and the Navy Postdoctoral Fellowship program. She also supervises psychology interns and all of the Navy’s psychology postdoctoral fellows as well as treats patients with a wide range of psychiatric diagnoses.
Dr. Price graduated Summa cum Laude from Baruch College in New York City with her Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance. She then went on to receive her Masters in Psychology from the University of Richmond, followed by her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University’s Post Campus in 2003. While at Post, Dr. Price defended her dissertation entitled “Depression in Chinese Immigrants in the United States: A Look at How It is Affected by Acculturative Stress, Social Anxiety and Demographic Factors.”
Dr. Price did her psychology internship at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Brockton, Massachusetts, working in the inpatient psychiatric unit and the domiciliary for homeless veterans, as well as in the PTSD outpatient clinic.
After graduating from Long Island University’s Doctoral program in Clinical Psychology in 2003, Dr. Price joined the Navy in 2004 as a Navy Psychologist to join her husband who was a physician in the Navy. Dr. Price was deployed on a USS naval ship within months of putting on the uniform for the first time, leaving a 3-year-old and an 18-month-old home. While this was very difficult on a personal level, Dr. Price found it extremely gratifying on a professional level. During her tour of duty, Dr. Price was able to do things civilian psychologists would rarely if ever do such as wearing gas masks, going from ship to ship via helicopters to see patients, and shooting guns on a flight deck.
Dr. Price served as an active duty Navy psychologist with the Expeditionary Strike Group 5 in the Persian Gulf. During her time on active duty, Dr. Price provided mental health evaluations, individual therapy, and conducted therapy groups. In addition to giving sailors and Marines immediate access to mental health, she also provided consultation to other medical providers and collaborated with the Chaplains onboard. In addition to clinical duties, Dr. Price also provided mental health education to Navy corpsmen, presented on Traumatic Stress in the Humanitarian Medical Assistance class, conducted a lecture on Combat Stress Control for medical personnel stationed at Bahrain, taught Baby Psychology to new dads onboard the ship, and developed the Combat Stress Brief for sailors and Marines as part of the Return and Reunion process. During her deployment, Dr. Price earned the Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer pin. After her active duty service, Dr. Price has been working for the Department of the Navy as a civil service employee. Dr. Price truly loves serving those who serve our country as well as her current job training future Navy psychologists.