Meet Dr. Romano, PsyD

A Season for Change, A Time for Mastery

Dr. Romano is a licensed psychologist (Immaculata University, 1996) with nearly three decades of experience helping individuals cultivate life mastery, emotional regulation, and sustainable success. She specializes in supporting high-functioning, high-achieving, and high-profile professionals who face challenges such as perfectionism, burnout, imposter syndrome, and executive functioning difficulties including ADHD and concentration challenges.

Grounded in trauma-informed care, Dr. Romano integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Trauma Informed – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and person-centered approaches to foster resilience and emotional balance. Her work emphasizes the four foundational DBT skills—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—helping clients manage intense emotions, navigate stress, and maintain healthy relationships while pursuing excellence.

Dr. Romano is experienced in working with both “big T” and “little t” trauma—the former referring to acute or life-threatening events such as abuse, accidents, or loss, and the latter to the chronic, cumulative impact of experiences like invalidation, neglect, or persistent stress. She recognizes that both forms of trauma can shape identity, self-worth, and behavior, and integrates gentle, evidence-based interventions to promote healing and reconnection with a sense of safety and self-trust.

Her therapeutic approach is integrative, drawing from humanistic, psychodynamic, cognitive, and behavioral frameworks. She tailors treatment to the unique needs of each client, supporting those managing life transitions that require harnessing our energy and recovering from overthinking, anxiety, ADHD or difficulty focusing, mood disruption, depression, and the emotional demands of high-performance lifestyles.  Clients who work with Dr. Romano gain greater self-awareness, emotional agility, and psychological flexibility while overcoming the complexities of hardships faced. Through her compassionate and strategic use of DBT and TF-CBT techniques, she helps clients quiet the inner critic, enhance executive functioning, and cultivate resilience in both work and life. Her work moves beyond symptom relief—guiding clients toward authentic growth, emotional mastery, and a grounded, values-driven life that integrates success with genuine well-being.

Dr. Romano is here to help you find your unique path to healing and to provide you with the tools you need to navigate life’s challenges with confidence, peace, and a renewed sense of purpose. She is warm with a polished sensibility of helping her clients see the light in the darkest of chapters; in her presence you feel held and capable all at once.

She is now accepting clients in North Carolina, click here to book a session or contact us.

For a snapshot of overcoming maladaptive perfectionism, see this positive psychology resource.