PROVIDER
Brittany Rudy, Ph.D.
Dr. Rudy, a licensed clinical psychologist, completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in anxiety disorders from Louisiana State University (LSU). Prior to her doctoral training, Dr. Rudy, a native to Greenville, SC, completed her undergraduate studies in psychology and communication at Clemson University. During her time at LSU, Dr. Rudy completed her training with emphasis on the assessment and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special concentration in pediatric anxiety. She also completed a secondary specialty concentration in assessment and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. Following her doctoral training, Dr. Rudy completed a child focused clinical internship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. She then completed a specialty postdoctoral fellowship at the University of South Florida’s Rothman Center for Pediatric Neuropsychiatry in association with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Rudy’s fellowship concentration was primarily in assessment and treatment obsessive-compulsive disorder in intensive and non-intensive formats with adults and children.
In addition, Dr. Rudy has received specialty training in Exposure with Response Prevention and other empirically supported behavioral and cognitive-behavioral techniques for treating anxiety and related disorders. She also has specific training in the assessment and treatment of anxiety and behavior problems in young children, below the age of 8 years. Dr. Rudy has been heavily involved in research of evidence based treatment techniques for young children with anxiety, augmentation and individualization of established practices to enhance treatment of anxiety disorders, and the intersection of anxiety and autism, and she is committed to dissemination of empirically supported techniques across her local community.
In their spare time, Dr. Rudy and her husband enjoy an active lifestyle of outdoors and adventure activities, attending sporting events, and sending time with friends and family. The Rudys welcomed their first child in December 2015 and are excited to watch their family grow.