I am proud to be serving my home, Pittsburgh, as a psychologist. I've been in the field since 2010 and founded WPS in 2020. WPS contracted with additional therapists in 2024, becoming a group practice.

While I consider myself a general practitioner, I have several areas of specialized experience:

• Bipolar Disorder: 7-years working in Bipolar research and treatment utilizing Interpersonal Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) at UPMC's Depression and Manic Depression Prevention Program (DMDPP) and Light Therapy for Bipolar Disorder at UPMC's Women's Behavioral Health Program.

• Trauma and Personality Disorders: during supervised training during my doctorate at UPMC's Adult Trauma Inpatient Recovery Program and later serving as a covering director of the program. During this time, I also received supervised training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Seeking Safety trauma informed treatment.

• Eating Disorders (Anorexia) and Feeding Disorders (ARFID - Avoidant / Restrictive Food Intake Disorder): As a senior program director at UPMC's Western Psychiatric Hospital, among other programs, I served the inpatient eating disorders treatment program. During this time, I updated the DBT treatment, added an Eating and the Self psychodynamic group therapy manual (based upon Focal Dynamic Therapy), and developed a site-specific CBT-E manual including treatment of ARFID as it occurs within the presentation of anorexia.

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My approach to therapy is integrative, perceiving psychology through a relational dynamic lens: our problems, personality and symptoms can and should be understood within an interpersonal context. We are social beings, and must be understood in our social context. This also means we must take a person-first perspective: understanding the person-first, as an individual to understand the symptoms rather than focusing on symptoms-first. This drives interventions, whether psychodynamic or cognitive behavioral. Additionally, I believe our internal, intrapsychic, world is made of parts seeking homeostasis, and my work often incorporates parts-work - exploring ambivalence or mixed feelings, and seeking new, more sustainable homeostasis as part of therapy.

*Dr. Weingarden is currently only accepting self-pay clients and evaluations or specialized skills training, new supervisees and group therapy practitioners, and requests for lectures and consultation. If you wish to use insurance, please schedule with one of Dr. Weingarden's colleagues under the "team" drop-down. The session fee is $250 for a 50-minute session.