CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Dr. Cole specializes in the treatment of trauma and chronic illness/pain. She utilizes an integrated therapy approach that includes Cognitive Behavioral therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She assists clients in understanding how past traumas, hurts, and relationships are impacting them today while providing tools for coping. Dr. Cole’s expertise is in working with the following conditions:

• Chronic Illness/Pain

• Anxiety

• Trauma

• Aging

• Depression

• LGBTQ+

• Relationship Concerns

• Men’s Issues

Dr. Cole earned her doctoral and master’s degree from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During her training, Dr. Cole worked in community mental health, outpatient counseling, college counseling, and spent two years in a hospital setting where she was chief psychology student. She was trained in mindfulness, DBT, ACT, psychodynamic therapy, and family systems. In addition, Dr. Cole has extensive experience providing culturally informed treatment and working with LGBTQ+.

Outside of providing counseling, Dr. Cole has a sweet toddler and a dog who also believes he is a human baby.

Dr. Cobb is a psychologist, prevention scientist and mental health researcher at Texas A&M University. He specializes in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) with adolescents and adults for the treatment of depression and its related conditions.

Dr. Cobb utilizes CBT to help clients restructure their thought patterns in a healthy way, identify negative thinking and ways to reframe it, and gain important problem-solving and behavioral skills to prevent future relapse. Dr. Cobb is bilingual and offers therapy in both English and Spanish. Along with depression, his clinical expertise includes helping clients navigate difficult life transitions and men’s issues in the family context.

Dr. Cobb received his PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Central Arkansas and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Prevention Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His clinical experience has encompassed diverse settings, including Arkansas State Hospital, Birch Tree Communities for the severely mentally ill, Arkansas Pediatrics, and the Department of Rehabilitation. Dr. Cobb’s training and clinical expertise involved applying CBT to treat a wide arrange of mental health challenges with emphasis on depression. Dr. Cobb also received specialized training in CBT for depression from the renowned Beck’s Institute.

As a mental health researcher, Dr. Cobb has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading psychology journals, an advanced textbook for graduate students in clinical psychology, numerous book chapters and encyclopedia entries, and currently leads a research study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Throughout this scholarship, the emphasis has been on the etiology and treatment of mental and behavioral health challenges.

In his free time, Dr. Cobb enjoys spending time with his children and his wife who is from Mexico, playing the blues on guitar, and bass fishing. He also likes to spend time in nature when the Texas sun is not too hot.

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST & DIRECTOR

Dr. Croft-Caderao specializes in treatment of Anxiety and OCD. Her therapy approach is Cognitive Behavioral, with a focus in exposure therapies such as Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD. She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a guiding framework to her work, which involves learning to become better at experiencing all the thoughts and feelings that life can throw at us while focusing on living meaningful lives.

Dr. Croft-Caderao earned her doctoral and master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology from Southern Methodist University, where her training focused on CBT for adults with anxiety, OCD, depression, and trauma. Along with exposure therapy and ACT, Dr. Croft-Caderao’s clinical interests include exercise for mood and anxiety, mindfulness, and multiculturalism and social justice issues within the field of psychology.

In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Croft-Caderao teaches CBT at UT Southwestern and provides supervision in CBT at SMU. She completed specialized training in Exposure and Response Prevention and Prolonged Exposure and trained within a variety of institutions including SMU’s Anxiety Research & Treatment Program, Parkland Hospital Psychiatry Consult Liaison Team, and several college counseling centers.

Dr. Croft-Caderao is from South Texas and is mother to a precious toddler and two not-so-well-behaved dogs.

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST & DIRECTOR

Dr. Holland specializes in treatment of children, adolescents, and adults struggling with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders. His work is heavily focused on confronting feared situations, improving coping skills, reducing avoidance behaviors, and moving towards maintenance and recovery.

Dr. Holland earned his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Southern Methodist University after receiving a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. During doctoral training, he spent significant time learning and implementing CBT in the treatment of anxiety disorders with adults and children, posttraumatic stress in adults and children, depression in children, and behavioral problems in children.

He completed clinical training at a variety of sites, including SMU’s Anxiety Research & Treatment Program, Children’s Medical Center, and UC Davis’ Children’s Hospital. In addition to this clinical experience, Dr. Holland conducted research and taught undergraduate courses at SMU, and currently teaches graduate-level courses in CBT in UT Southwestern’s Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Program.

Dr. Holland has been working with kids and adolescents in some capacity since he began teaching swimming lessons at 15. He has an adorable and rambunctious toddler who he tries to keep up with, and a partner pursuing her own graduate degree in neuroscience.