Drs. Felicia Connor and Caitlyn Arutiunov: Mental Health and Telehealth During COVID-19

<div class="gmail_default"><strong>Dr. Felicia <span class= "il">Connor</span>’s </strong>techniques integrate mindfulness-based interventions, cognitive-behavioral therapy and solution-focused therapy into her individual and group work. Her clinical interests include therapy with a spirituality focus, culturally informed therapy and assessment and concussion across the lifespan. In her daily practice, she provides individual and group cognitive rehabilitation, psychotherapy and neuropsychological assessment to those with neurological conditions. She has been trained in traditional therapy for depression, anxiety, adjustment to disability, grief/loss; pediatric neurological issues (e.g. concussion management) and couples and family therapy. Her research interests include: multiple sclerosis, cultural considerations for treatment, and cognitive remediation. She is Board Certified in Rehabilitation Psychology and licensed in New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Her doctorate in clinical psychology is from Argosy University.</div> <div class="gmail_default"><span style= "font-family: georgia, serif;"><strong> </strong></span></div> <div class="gmail_default"><span style= "font-family: georgia, serif;"><strong>Dr. Caitlyn Arutiunov’s</strong> research focuses on identifying barriers to the neurorehabilitation process within an outpatient neurorehabilitation <wbr />population, including factors such as psychosocial, environmental, institutional, and attitudinal barriers to treatment. The goal of this research is to document these barriers to treatment to aid in improving overall quality of care for neurorehabilitation patients. In addition to conducting research, she provides psychotherapy, cognitive remediation, and group therapy on an outpatient basis to neurorehabilitation patients at Rusk. She completed her doctoral internship at Rusk. She received her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University, where she completed her dissertation on "The Ethics of Publicly