Annalise Perricone, PhD

Written By Dawn Johnson

Areas of Specialization

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Chronic pain and chronic illness

  • Relationship problems and couples counseling

  • Self-confidence and identity

  • Academic and career concerns

You may be feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck, despite how hard you’re working. Perhaps you feel unseen in your relationships, worn out by conflict, limited by an invisible disability, or disconnected from your sense of self. You might be questioning your academic or professional path, even while others see you as high-achieving and successful.

My goal is to help you feel seen and understood, while building the confidence, motivation, and self-compassion needed to achieve your goals without feeling miserable. I aim for our sessions to feel warm, collaborative, and proactive, creating a safe, nonjudgmental space while also gently challenging you toward growth.

My approach combines structured, evidence-based methods (CBT, DBT, ACT) with insight-oriented, psychodynamic understanding. This allows us to work on gaining immediate tools to help you feel better, while also building a deeper understanding of your challenges.

I work with college students through established adults who are experiencing a wide variety of stressors and symptoms, especially anxiety and depression. I have specialized training in CBT for chronic pain, and I particularly enjoy helping clients reconnect with their identity beyond their physical distress, rediscovering joy, purpose, and balance in daily life. I also frequently work with clients struggling with academic or career stress, including burnout, work–life balance, imposter syndrome, and perfectionism, as well as graduate applications, career changes, and relationship strain due to professional and academic demands.

I also offer couples counseling, specializing in helping couples navigate conflict, disconnection, and relationship strain. Using an Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy (IBCT) approach, I help partners understand problematic patterns of interaction, foster empathy, and develop healthy communication skills that promote mutual respect.

I hold a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale University, where my research focused on factors influencing the effectiveness of treatment for biologically based depression. This training informs my evidence-based, compassionate, and results-driven approach to therapy.

Psychology Associate in Washington, DC and Virginia
under the clinical supervision of Dr. J. Dawn Johnson and Dr. Sydney Rosen

PhD in Clinical Psychology, Yale University
BA, Columbia University


Offering in-person and telehealth sessions to clients based in: Washington, DC

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Our providers

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Ayden Ferstenberg, PsyD
Ayden Ferstenberg, PsyD

Ayden offers individual therapy, sex therapy and couples therapy, including evening sessions. Her style is active, trauma-informed, and grounded in evidence-based therapies, helping clients understand and change longstanding patterns while building greater self-trust, connection, and resilience. Ayden works with individuals, couples, and families seeking deeper relationships, improved communication, emotional healing, and a more satisfying and authentic life.

Ashley Alderette, PsyD
Ashley Alderette, PsyD

Ashley’s approach emphasizes the use of specific tools and strategies to help adolescents and adults reduce distress, develop more flexible thinking, feel more connected in relationships, and address tendencies towards perfectionism and rigidity. She has a warm, collaborative and empowering therapeutic style, with expertise in anxiety, depression, relationships, life transitions, work/life balance, perfectionism and eating disorders.

Amy Goldfrank, LICSW
Amy Goldfrank, LICSW

Amy strives for clients to feel supported and guided as they work towards growth and change. She specializes in anxiety, depression, relationships, self-criticism, perfectionism, and life transitions (e.g., graduation, parenthood and career changes).  Amy's style blends tangible tools with broader insight, all while strengthening a sense of agency so that clients can feel empowered to make and sustain meaningful change.

Sydney Rosen, PsyD
Sydney Rosen, PsyD

Sydney works from an attachment perspective, helping clients to better understand themselves and their relationships. She combines insight-oriented approaches with CBT/DBT skills, and has expertise in anxiety and depression, life transitions, family of origin conflict, identity development, body image, self-esteem and relationships, including non-monogamy.

Sharon Schonteich, PhD
Sharon Schonteich, PhD

Sharon specializes in supporting professionals navigating high-pressure careers, leadership demands, life transitions, and relationship challenges. Her clinical approach blends skill-building with emotional insight in a solutions-focused, strengths-based, and gently challenging style. Sharon helps clients to reduce overwhelm, clarify priorities, and move forward with confidence, and has particular expertise in working with global professionals, infertility, the perinatal period, and parenting while sustaining demanding careers.

Annalise Perricone, PhD
Annalise Perricone, PhD

Annalise integrates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and insight-oriented approaches to help clients feel seen, valued, and supported as they work toward meaningful growth and change. She provides therapy for college students and adults, with a focus on those navigating demanding academic, professional, and military environments. Annalise specializes in therapy for anxiety, depression, relationship issues, low self-esteem and imposter syndrome. She is also trained in CBT for pain management and has extensive experience working with clients living with chronic illness and chronic pain.

Mandy Thompson, PsyD, ABPP
Mandy Thompson, PsyD, ABPP

Mandy brings a warm, collaborative and highly practical approach to therapy. She specializes in anxiety, including stress related to challenging work and academic environments, social anxiety and health anxiety. Mandy has particular expertise in the treatment of OCD and phobias, including fear of needles, vomiting (emetophobia), flying, heights, illness or contamination, using CBT and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to help clients work towards their goals without feeling overwhelmed. She offers convenient morning and evening sessions via telehealth to clients in all 40+ PSYPACT states.

Dawn Johnson, PsyD
Dawn Johnson, PsyD

Dawn is the founder of our practice and has an engaging, interactive therapy style. Her approach blends concrete behavior change with a deep curiosity around the origins of your concerns so that we can understand how they developed and actively craft healthier patterns going forward. She has particular expertise in anxiety, disordered eating, career/academic stress, healthy relationship boundaries, and life transitions.

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