Dr. Renee Ortega

Renee Ortega, PhD BC-DMT LCAT COTA/L

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Dr. Renee Ortega holds a PhD in International Psychology with a trauma concentration. She is a Board-Certified Dance Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT), and a Certified Occupational Therapy (COTA) practitioner with over 17 years of experience working with clients and families across the lifespan.

Over the course of her years in practice, she has worked with the adult and pediatric populations in both professions. Dr. Ortega is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). She utilized this inventory in her dissertation, researching how intercultural communication and competency of health care professionals impact mental health care in São Paulo, Brazil, in marginalized communities.

Dr. Ortega has become certified, specialized, and trained in the areas of Sensory Integration and Praxis Testing (SIPT), applied behavioral analysis (ABA), interactive metronome (IM), Wilbarger protocol, and Stanley Greenspan's Floortime, in addition to other therapeutic techniques and approaches. She has educated, trained, and supervised students and treated clients, pairing techniques and tools from both professions. She strives to apply the tools of OT, DMT, and the IDI along with her personal and diverse cultural experiences in her postdoctoral practice and research.

Her private practice work focuses on a family systems approach with consideration to multicultural and critical social factors and the impact that it can have on each client as an individual, weaving in a multimodal lens to treatment.

Renee practices in our New York City office.