Bio:

Dr. Armer is a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of California. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UCLA and both her master’s degree and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, after completing her Child Psychology Internship at Stanford.

Throughout her training, she has utilized evidence-based practices such as cognitive-behavioral individual therapy, marital therapy, family therapy, and group therapy, as well as interpersonal individual therapy to support children and families in both community and hospital settings with a wide variety of mental health concerns.

After putting her career on hold to raise children, including a child with special needs, she returned to the field as a Postdoctoral Psychology Fellow at Stanford, helping children and their parents cope with mental conditions. In her first year as a Pediatric Psychology Fellow, she supported families with children who faced chronic and often life-threatening medical conditions.

During her second year as a NICU Psychology Fellow, she provided trauma-informed individual therapy, couples therapy, and group therapy to support parents of hospitalized infants. In this position, using a combination of supportive, interpersonal, and cognitive-behavioral therapy she also helped prenatal and postpartum mothers manage anxiety and depression while encouraging parent-infant bonding and increased confidence in their parenting roles. As a result of her training and her own parenting experiences, she developed an interest in helping women cope with unexpected aspects of pregnancy, delivery, and parenthood.