ABOUT Amy L. Sheinberg, Ph.D.
Experienced Licensed Psychologist
Statement About My Practice:
“It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change." –Charles Darwin. Learning how to adapt, improvise, and manage when things don’t go your way are essential building blocks to developing resilience and bolstering our physical and emotional well-being.
Description of treatment approach:
Dr. Amy Sheinberg is a psychodynamically oriented and integrative professional psychologist who is known for having a well-rounded, robust, up-to-date, and evidence-based clinical mastery of practical, solution-oriented, and grounded approaches and practices, including training and expertise in using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Attachment Theory, and other evidence-based theories and techniques.
She has over 30 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families with a variety of issues, including but not limited to adjustment disorders, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, ADHD, eating disorders, expected and unexpected life and career transitions, including failure to launch and maturation impasses, communication failures, executive functioning deficits, and moving those in their mid-life into new chapters in late adulthood and/or the retirement phase. She skillfully guides and helps her patients to navigate complex situations, circumstances, chronic, persistent, long-standing frustrations, and discontent through active listening, inquisitiveness, and well-considered, practical, and strategic questioning. She focuses on bringing her patients new insights, fresh insights, and empowered, elevated, and optimized mindsets to find unexplored pathways toward lasting, meaningful, and consequential shifts and changes.
She is interested in what led them to seek out therapy at this junction and their desired outcomes while ensuring her patients are aware of their strengths, leverage, resiliencies, and “grit,” helping them to identify unnoticed blindspots, road bumps, and obstacles, while also strengthening or extinguishing known or newly identified shortcomings. By better understanding how their past intersects with their present and, in turn, creates their future, she hopes to help her patients develop self-awareness and introspection to empower them to accept what they cannot control and focus on what they can. To create healthy, adaptive, and practical strategies that are realistic, attainable, and within the individual’s control, she helps them to recognize what may be long-standing, maladaptively entrenched patterns that lead to self-defeating thoughts, self-sabotaging actions, and/or stagnating their successes, leaving them stuck in enduring, confused, perpetual, and unhelpful frameworks and fixed mindsets. Moreover, she makes a point to highlight how powerful even the simplest tweaks and adjustments can make immense differences, significant transformations, and powerful changes by reminding them of the bigger picture. Bringing her patients greater satisfaction, lasting revisions, and more fulfilling and meaningful relationships with themselves and others in the future, Dr. Sheinberg believes that “life begins at the edge of one’s comfort zone,” emphasizing that consequential learning, personal growth, and true fulfillment only come by stepping outside the familiar and comfortable, facing and overcoming fear, and embracing new experiences and opportunities.
Education:
- Post Doctoral Fellowship, Timberlawn Hospital, 1993-1994
- Licensed as a Psychologist in Texas, 1993, #25047
- Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas, 1993
(3500 supervised clinical internship hours were built into the program completed at Juvenile Detention Center, Terrell State Hospital, Scottish Rite Hospital, and the University of Texas-Arlington, Student Mental Health Center as well as Parkland Emergency Room rotation and Southwestern Adult Psychotherapy training practicum)
Professional Experience:
- Private Practice, Dallas, TX, 1997-present
- Green Oaks, Outpatient Department, 1996-1997
- Timberlawn Mental Health System, Outpatient Department, 1994-1996
Professional Affiliations:
- American Psychological Association
- Texas Psychological Association
- Dallas Psychological Association
- National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
- National Eating Disorders Association
- Academy for Eating Disorders