Cynthia Ramirez, Ph.D.
Dr. Cynthia Ramirez works with adolescents and young adults struggling with emotion dysregulation, depression, anxiety, and/or trauma.
- Works with
- Adolescents and young adults
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Areas of focus
- Emotion dysregulation
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma
Education & training
- Undergraduate degree, Duke University
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan
- Postdoctoral fellowship, Emory University School of Medicine
- Former Assistant Professor and Director of the DBT Program, Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
About Dr. Ramirez
She completed her undergraduate degree at Duke University and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan.
Following her internship, Dr. Ramirez served as a clinical psychologist and professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Quito, Ecuador, where she lived for five years before moving to Atlanta, GA.
She then completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Emory University School of Medicine, where she was a therapist at the Child and Adolescent Mood Program (CAMP), a CBT research therapist for a NIMH funded study of predictors of treatment outcome for depressed Latinx adults, and a research therapist for studies with adolescents suffering from major depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder.
In 2011, she joined the faculty at Emory University as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University where she was the director of the DBT program.
In 2016, Dr. Ramirez decided to leave Emory University and start her private practice in order to devote more time to her professional passion of providing evidence-based clinical care to individuals.
