Dr Aldea received a master’s degree in clinical psychology and then a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2007. She completed a pre-doctoral internship at the University Counseling Center at Florida State University and a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Florida, Obsessive-Compulsive Program. She continued as an assistant professor at the University of South Florida, Department of Pediatrics, Rothman Center of Neuropsychiatry where she conducted clinical research and individual and family evidence-based therapy with adults, adolescents, and children suffering from obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, and other conditions.

During her tenure at the Bay Pines VA Medical Center, Dr. Aldea founded and managed a program focused on the assessment and treatment of OCD, anxiety disorders, and comorbid conditions in veterans. She served as the Chief of the Collaborative Addictions Recovery Services (CARS) at Providence VA and Clinical Director at Rogers Behavioral Health, where she was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the clinical operations, including patient care, staff supervision and training, and quality insurance.

In addition to direct clinical services, Dr. Aldea is passionate about clinical research, and training and supervision of peers and younger colleagues in evidence-based treatments. She served in various consultant and subject matter expert roles, including for the Veterans Health Administration National Evidence Based Psychotherapy Program and the VA Center of Innovation. Dr. Aldea has a strong background in academic research and scholarly writing, including contributions to professional books, peer-reviewed journal publications, presentations, invited talks, and conference proceeding.

With close to 20 years of experience, Dr. Aldea is trained and well-versed in a range of evidence-based psychotherapies and interventions for different mental health concerns and developmental impasses across the lifespan. She specializes in the evaluation and evidence-based treatment of OCD, anxiety-spectrum disorders (e.g., social anxiety, phobias, panic disorder), health anxiety, trichotillomania, excoriation disorder, trauma, and co-occurring conditions in adults, children and adolescents. The evidence-based interventions she offers include exposure and response prevention (ERP), prolonged exposure (PE), general and specialized cognitive behavioral therapies, habit reversal training (HRT), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

Dr. Aldea provides highly individualized evidence-based treatment to meet the unique needs and specific presenting concerns of each person she works with. Dr. Aldea has a strong background in outcome-informed treatment. Throughout the course of treatment, she elicits feedback from clients and utilizes standardized measures to monitor each client’s treatment response; this feedback loop informs clinical decisions and allows to tailor and optimize practice approaches and treatment planning to the individual needs of each client.

Dr. Aldea enjoys traveling, hiking, reading, making fancy cakes, and she is an avid pickleball player.