About Dr. Thomas

Dr. Thomas received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2016. She was awarded the prestigious NIH National Research Service Award in 2013 based on her dissertation study examining maternal stress reactivity and parenting children with ADHD. She completed pre-doctoral internship at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Consortium, a postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and practicum training in outpatient pediatric neuropsychology at KKI and Children’s National Center for Autism and Related Disorders. Dr. Thomas provides evidenced-based interventions for individuals, family, and group therapy, interdisciplinary and school consultation, and psychological assessment to preschoolers, children, adolescents, and young adults. Dr. Thomas has extensive research experience and clinical training and developed her expertise in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), executive functioning deficits, learning disabilities, disruptive behavior disorders, anxiety in preschool and school children, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and autism spectrum disorders in addition to work with parents with depression, ADHD, and anxiety. Interventions include behavioral parent training, cognitive-behavioral therapy, social skills training, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), executive skills training, and special education services consultation.