Dr. Wendy O’Connor is a Stanford-trained Positive Psychologist and Life Strategist for Women. She coaches women to create unparalleled success with their businesses, relationships, and confidence. Dr. O’Connor specializes in the science of happiness and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and empowers women to annihilate anxiety and stress, leave limiting beliefs and unhelpful patterns and habits behind, and create a new, fulfilling life.
Dr. O'Connor helps women overcome the barriers that have interfered with your ability to create a meaningful and purposeful life by YOUR design. She firmly believes if you change your story, beliefs, and habits you will transform your life.
Dr. O'Connor received her doctorate in psychology from the Stanford PsyD Consortium and completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Sharp Healthcare in San Diego, California. There she trained in several clinical rotations including the adolescent partial hospitalization program and the adult inpatient and intensive outpatient units.
Life coaching - Life coaching involves receiving guidance in all aspects of your world. We will take a look at your current lifestyle and explore improvement areas. Identifying and overcoming the obstacles in your way will lead to fulfillment in your life. This may also include wellness coaching and relationship coaching.
Peak performance - Addressing mental barriers to realizing full potential; overcoming performance anxiety and self-doubt to reach personal and professional goals
Anxiety and stress - Become aware of the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and identify the thoughts that trigger your anxiety. Learn effective coping techniques for reducing anxiety and stress. Master your anxiety by challenging your trigger thoughts and live a more peaceful, relaxed life.
Balancing school, work, personal life - Finding balance amidst competing priorities
Life transitions - Adjusting to college, new relationships, career transitions and direction; mid-life existential, relationship, and career challenges; losing one’s drive or burn out; learning self-care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Using CBT to incorporate mood-elevating behaviors into daily routine; restructuring and replacing negative thoughts with reality-based thoughts
Wendy O'Connor is not in-network with any insurances.
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Salt + Slate Wellness, LLC, Positive Psychologist + Life Strategist for Women, 2016 - Present
East Greenwich Psychology, Clinical Psychologist, 2013 - Present
Providence Psychology Services, Clinical Psychologist, 2009 - 2013
Palo Alto University-Stanford PsyD Consortium, PsyD, Clinical Psychology, 2008
University of Vermont, BS, Psychology, 2001
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