Meet Dr. Yoni Cohen in Bala Cynwyd, PA & Online

Licensed Psychologist

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Dr. Cohen is a licensed psychologist with nine years of experience treating anxiety and panic, OCD, trauma, depression, and insomnia. They also specialize in supporting trans, queer, and neurodivergent clients. Dr. Cohen works with teenagers and adults.

Dr. Cohen believes each client has inherent worth and unique strengths, and that you are the best knower of yourself. They provide cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for symptom relief while honoring clients’ identity and lived experiences.

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Anxiety and OCD: Dr. Cohen specializes in CBT for anxiety and panic, and in exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP) for OCD. They enjoy helping clients find relief from intrusive thoughts, fears, and compulsions. Dr. Cohen has completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA) specializing in ERP for OCD, and they are certified in this treatment. 

Painful and traumatic experiences: Dr. Cohen has extensive experience as a trauma therapist, including supporting clients with sexual harm, intimate partner violence, pregnancy loss and birth trauma, medical trauma and chronic illness, community and identity-based violence, the death or loss of a loved one, and traumatic invalidation or rejection. They are highly skilled in treating PTSD, and in supporting clients when trauma responses include painful emotions, anger, self-harm, and suicidality. Dr. Cohen offers cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and prolonged exposure therapy (PE) for C/PTSD, and cognitive therapy for depression.

Mind and body: Dr. Cohen is skilled in addressing ways that anxiety and stress can interact with gastrointestinal and autoimmune conditions. They also provide CBT for insomnia (CBT-I) for treating primary insomnia.

Located in our Bala Cynwyd, PA office & for Online Therapy

My Qualifications & Training

Qualifications:

  • Licensed Psychologist in the state of Pennsylvania (Licensure Name: Rivka Cohen)

  • Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT), Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT) Commission

  • Certification in Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP) for OCD from the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at University of Pennsylvania

  • Certification in Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE) for PTSD from the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at University of Pennsylvania

  • Certification in providing Consultation/Supervision in Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE) from the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at University of Pennsylvania

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

  • B.A. in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Training:

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship: Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, Penn Medicine

  • Predoctoral Internship: Cpl. Michael J. Crescenz (Philadelphia) VA Medical Center

  • Externship: Cognitive Therapy Clinic for Depression at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Externship: Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, Penn Medicine

  • Therapist, Penn Sleep Center, Penn Medicine

  • Externship: Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic, Penn Medicine

  • Externship: Penn Anxiety Program at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Externship: Penn Assessment Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania