Dr. Alexandra Shaker is a licensed clinical psychologist and a writer with a background across inpatient and outpatient treatment settings. Dr. Shaker’s writing is an interdisciplinary exploration of the human condition: she integrates psychology, literature, history, anthropology, and language to speak to the meaning and vitality we find in the stories we tell one another and ourselves. Dr. Shaker received her PhD in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research and conducted her doctoral research at the Brief Psychotherapy Research Program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She completed her clinical training at Columbia University Medical Center. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in perinatal mental health at The Motherhood Center of New York, where she held a position as a clinical psychologist and is now a clinical consultant.
Dr. Shaker’s book, The Narrowing: A Journey Through Anxiety and the Body, is available to order here.
