Dr. Candela Bonaccorso, PSYD
Dr. Bonaccorso completed a doctorate in Clinical Psychology at The George Washington University in 2007. She is a licensed clinical psychologist who garnered her experience working in large, metropolitan, city hospitals as well as smaller clinics, agencies, and schools starting in the year 2000. She has worked with World Trade Center survivors at Bellevue Hospital, people struggling with addictions and emotional problems, people with cancer, people with severe mental illness, people with personality disorders, and people struggling with weight loss. She provides therapy both in Spanish and in English. Dr. Bonaccorso has specialized training in working with survivors of trauma, in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, and in relational psychodynamic psychotherapy. Her approach is psychodynamic and interpersonal, which focuses on the highly individualized treatment of the whole person, and which is not just symptom-focused.