Krista Regedanz, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Founder and Director of Palo Alto Smart Therapy

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Krista Regedanz, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist who works with high achievers and other Type A clients in private practice in Palo Alto, California. She is the founder and director of Palo Alto Smart Therapy. Seventeen years ago, Dr. Regedanz was a technology and strategy consultant at a data warehousing and business strategy firm based in Chicago and Boston working with knowledge management and strategy. She became a Psychologist after a life-changing job burnout experience. Dr. Regedanz earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology where she learned a holistic, strength-based way of partnering with her clients in psychotherapy. Her academic research has focused on how people successfully recover from job burnout. Her clinical work is heavily informed by Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Existential-Humanistic Psychology, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Brene Brown’s work focused on healing from shame and perfectionism. Today she is the kind of action-oriented therapist she tried to find 15 years ago.