Maria Elena Lara

About Maria Elena Lara

Provide psychological services, including psychological testing, individual and parenting therapy to children, teenagers, and adults; also conduct custody and forensic evaluations. Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, etc. Additionally, I offer home visits, marathon sessions, and intensive daily therapy if desired or needed. Free initial 30 minute consultation available!

Experience

1. Director of Clinical Services

   Habit Design

   Jan 2012 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Habit Design® is the only clinically validated, evidence-based habit training program, developed by licensed, certified, published clinical psychologists from Yale, the University of Washington, and Kaiser Permanente. Over 500 companies & people have applied Habit Design\'s neuroscience training to create over 1 Million new daily habits, generating 180% return-on-investment for their employers. Recipient of the prestigious B.F. Skinner Award for Organizational Behavior Management, Habit Design\'s work was featured in The New York Times bestseller, The Power of Habit, and we have been called \"a leading authority in how organizations create sustainable Behavior Change\" by The New York Times bestselling author Jim Collins. We\'ve also been featured by The White House, The World Bank, The New York Times, Apple, CNN, Fast Company, ABC News, BBC News, TEDMED, Harvard Business School, Stanford Medical School, Stanford Institute of Design (\"d.school\"​), IDEO, The Society of Behavioral Medicine, American Journal of Health Promotion, and many others. Our previous work at XBox LIVE, Twitter, Kaiser Permanente, Nike+, Amazon, and UnitedHealthcare have reached over 100 Million users. We were selected as a YCombinator finalist (among the top 2% of global applicants).

Education

• Stony Brook University

  Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

  1993 — 1998

• Yale University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Self-Esteem
• Motivational Interviewing
• Behavioral Health
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Psychological Assessment
• Counseling
• Treatment
• Coaching
• Parenting Issues
• Habit Design and Development
• Clinical Research
• Stress Reduction
• Psychotherapy
• Working with Children
• Cognition
• Psychiatry
• Clinical
• Interventions
• Life Transitions
• Grief Counseling
• Clinical Supervision
• Phobias
• Cbt
• Personality
• Forensic Psychology
• Behavioral Medicine
• Adolescents
• Intervention
• Health Psychology
• Parents
• Stress
• Child Development
• Young Adults
• Mental Health Counseling
• Emotional
• Teaching
• Personal Development
• Mindfulness
• Stress Management
• Anger Management