Dr. Brigid Cahill

Brigid Cahill, Ph.D., CGP

Dr. Brigid Cahill received her bachelor's degree in psychology at St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1994, graduating magna cum laude. Prior to continuing her education, she worked first as a preprofessional trainee with the Devereux Foundation near Philadelphia, PA, and then as a research assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. While in graduate school, she pursued research in treatment outcomes and in successful aging. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology at the University of South Carolina in 2002, after completing her predoctoral internship through the University of Rochester Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship here at the University of Rochester's Counseling Center, she joined the faculty.

Brigid's clinical specialty areas include working with survivors of trauma (especially childhood abuse and sexual assault) and with anxiety disorders. She enjoys leading and supervising group therapies including interpersonal process groups, trauma groups, and DBT skills groups. She teaches workshops for the training group on DBT, professional development, and outreach/consultation. She especially enjoys supervising therapists in training. Additionally, she currently has a small private practice.