Kristina DanielsPsyD

Kristina is a licensed clinical psychologist and one of the clinical supervisors at BIPS. Her own practice is psychoanalytic and psychodynamic: she is interested in what sits underneath a symptom, and in the patterns people carry into every room they walk into.

She holds a PsyD from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, an APA-accredited program, and completed an APPIC pre-doctoral internship followed by two postdoctoral fellowships, one at the Karen Horney Clinic. Her training there was in the Horneyian psychoanalytic tradition — close study of Karen Horney and other psychodynamic theorists. She also holds Level 1 EMDR training and training in biofeedback.

Before her doctorate, Kristina earned an MA in Africana Studies from the University at Albany, SUNY, including study abroad in Ghana, West Africa, looking at culture, agriculture and language. That background shapes how she thinks about identity, acculturation and context in clinical work.

At BIPS she supervises clinicians and offers workshops and clinical training. She built the practice's clinical writing course and trains staff in it, so that psychodiagnostic interviews, psychotherapy notes and treatment plans meet a consistent professional standard across the practice.

Alongside this work she is a Supervising Psychologist at the CUNY Graduate Center Wellness Center, and a supervisor at the Karen Horney Clinic and Anchor Counseling. Her clinical experience spans substance use, eating disorders, depression, PTSD, anxiety, identity and sexuality, acculturation, grief, and self-destructive behavior.