Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate.
Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate.
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Ochsner is committed to a clinically-integrated research program with the ultimate goal of improving the health and wellness of our patients and communities. And as the largest academic medical center in Louisiana, we are training the next generation of healthcare professionals to be leaders who can meet evolving healthcare challenges.
Dr. Allison Smith is one of the OPDI co-Training Directors and oversees the Adult Track. Dr. Smith completed her undergraduate degree at Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, TN, and earned her PhD from the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, KS, an APA-Accredited doctoral program. She completed an APA-accredited doctoral internship at the James Hailey Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, FL. Upon completion of her pre-doctoral internship, Dr. Smith completed her post-doctoral fellowship in private practice at the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of New Orleans. In 2024, she joined the Ochsner Department of Psychiatry, where she provides manualized, evidence-based interventions for outpatient and partial hospitalization patients with presenting concerns such as mood disorders, anxiety, insomnia, and personality disorders. Dr. Smith is particularly passionate about improving access to dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to patients in New Orleans and supervises the DBT rotation for adult track interns. In addition to psychotherapy, Dr. Smith conducts pre-surgical psychological assessments.
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Dr. Yelena Johnson is a licensed clinical psychologist at Ochsner Health. She completed her undergraduate degree at Tulane University in New Orleans and earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. She completed her doctoral internship in pediatric psychology at Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory School of Medicine/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Johnson started at Ochsner in 2020 and later completed her Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Currently, Dr. Johnson provides consultation-liaison services in pediatric primary care clinics in the greater New Orleans area (Southshore). She specializes in conducting focused consultations and providing brief solutions-focused interventions for psychological and developmental concerns in children and adolescents. She is committed to providing evidence-based interventions and has a strong background in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Dr. Johnson enjoys working with patients of all ages and cultural identities.
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