Mikaela Bernthaler, Psy.D., MS.Ed, M.B.A
Psychological Resident

Dr. Bernthaler earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the George Washington University. She also completed a one year fellowship at the Washington-Baltimore Institute for Psychoanalysis. Throughout her training, she worked primarily in residential and inpatient settings with chronic, multi-problem, under-served and culturally diverse adults and their families. In these settings, she provided individual therapy, psycho diagnostic assessments and co-led groups . Dr. Bernthaler completed an APA accredited internship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Bronx Psychiatric Center, a state inpatient facility specialized in the psychodynamic treatment of chronically mentally ill and forensic clients, where, in addition to working with adults, their families and co-leading groups, she also received training in Emergency Room intervention, psycho diagnostic assessment of children as well as neuropsychological assessment. Dr. Bernthaler also holds a Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Miami and provided couples and family therapy from structural and strategic systems perspectives. She also worked with children and was a volunteer in the Guardian ad Litem Program at the 11th Judicial Circuit in Florida. She has considerable experience working with the Hispanic community and is a bilingual therapist. She is a member of the APA Division of Psychoanalysis. Prior to turning to the field of psychology, Dr. Bernthaler worked for a multinational corporation throughout Europe and South America in various managerial capacities. Her primary interests are in the role of language in the structuring of internal and external experience, as well as the interweaving influences of trauma, gender and culture to human development.

E-mail Dr. Bernthaler at mbernthaler@cornerstonebh.com