Dr. Rahimeh Andalibian

Psychologist, Author, Conscious Entrepreneur (Spectrum & Trauma - NY, CA, DC)

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Dr. Rahimeh Andalibian

Psychologist, Author, Conscious Entrepreneur (Spectrum & Trauma - NY, CA, DC)

Dr. Rahimeh Andalibian (Dr. A) is a clinical psychologist licensed in New York, California, and Washington, D.C. For more than two decades, she has worked with multidisciplinary teams conducting psychological evaluations and providing therapy services for individuals, families, couples, and groups. 

Dr. A welcomes individuals, couples, and families into her practice. She holds advanced certifications in family interventions and specializes in trauma and neurodivergent profiles. Dr. A understands the family dynamics that are unique to individuals struggling with neurodivergence and trauma. She is also skilled at incorporating her understanding of culture and community with diverse populations and their unique experiences.  

Dr. A incorporates EMDR, grounding and resourcing the body with Sensorimotor psychotherapy tools, trauma-focused CBT, mindfulness, and narrative work. Her experience in systemic intervention enables her to seek solutions to problem areas based on strengths while appreciating all the effective, protective parts that have served the client. 

Dr. A has been an entrepreneur for over 15 years, and she is the owner and director of Spectrum Services NYC, where she leads a team of 8 diagnosticians who conduct comprehensive neuropsychological assessments, as well as a team of 20 therapists and life coaches who specialize in working with individuals, couples, and families with autism, ADHD, OCD, and trauma.

Dr. A has owned and operated two cognitive-based learning centers in southern California specializing in the remediation of executive functioning skills, learning disabilities, dyslexia, and cognitive deficits. In addition, she has been an adjunct professor and supervisor for graduate students.

Dr. A has also authored her memoir, The Rose Hotel, which was published in 2012 and tells the story of her family’s post-trauma resilience and healing – the experiences which became the inspiration for her decision to become a psychologist. The Rose Hotel is now being adapted into a screenplay.

“A brave, beautifully written memoir…skillfully crafts into an insightful, passionate immigrant’s story with cross-cultural resonance.”Publishers Weekly 2015

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EXPERTISE

Individuals, couples, and families

Trauma

Autism/Asperger’s

ADHD, especially in women

Family interventions

Culture, race, diversity, multigenerational and geopolitical trauma

Psychological evaluations for children and adults

OCD

THERAPY APPROACHES

Strengths-based, collaborative, mutual decision making

Trauma work

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Sensorimotor psychotherapy body oriented work, mindfulness, grounding, resourcing

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

Autism

“The impulse to heal is real and powerful and lies within the client. Our job is to evoke that healing power… and support it in its expression and development. We are not the healers. We are the context in which healing is inspired.”
- Ron Kurtz

Trauma

“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness...Trauma is about loss of connection—to ourselves, our bodies, our families, to others, and to the world around us. This disconnection is often hard to recognize because it doesn't happen all at once but rather over time.”
- Peter Levine

OCD

“A lot of people assume that having OCD means liking things organized or hating germs. It tends to be treated like a quirk or an endearing trait. But it's so much more than that. It's the one thing that prohibits me from being free of myself.” - Whitney Amazeen

ADHD

“Think of having ADHD in this way… You have a ‘Ferrari’ brain but with ‘Chevy’ brakes.”
- Jonathan Mooney