Meet Our Providers

Dr. Katy Higgins Neyland (she/her)

Dr. Higgins Neyland (she/her) works therapeutically with adolescents and adults. She completed her internship in Women’s Mental Health at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. During this internship, she conducted individual and group therapy with males and females with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder in inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient settings through the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders. She also received specialized training in the treatment of reproductive mood disorders and provided inpatient treatment to women in the nation’s first perinatal psychiatry inpatient unit as part of UNC’s Center for Women’s Mood Disorders.

Dr. Higgins Neyland was intensively trained in DBT by the Behavioral Tech/Linehan Institute in November 2016. She received her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, which has been ranked among the top graduate programs in clinical psychology by U.S. News and World Report, and is accredited by the American Psychological Association and the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System.

From 2019 to 2022, Dr. Higgins Neyland worked at the Uniformed Services University (USU) as an Assistant Professor and Clinical Scientist leading and supervising groups aimed at reducing disordered eating and anxiety among adolescents as part of two different randomized controlled trials. She has authored or co-authored more than twenty peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, co-authored two book chapters, and has presented her research at national and international conferences, as well as before Congressional staff.

Dr. Higgins Neyland was awarded an NIH Diversity Supplement to conduct her dissertation research and received an honorable mention for the Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation on two occasions.

We understand that therapy is hard work, time-consuming, and expensive. We want to make sure that you are getting your money's worth and that you are making concrete progress towards your goals. In order to do this, Dr. Higgins Neyland collaboratively sets concrete goals at the outset of treatment and uses these goals to track progress with her patients. She works with her patients to identify the function of their problematic behavior(s). This helps to reduce shame around the behavior(s) and encourages acceptance of oneself that unblocks patients and leads to change. Dr. Higgins Neyland teaches her patients value-congruent coping skills to use in place of the problematic behavior(s). This enables her patients to reach their goals and build a life worth living. Her goal is to teach patients to become their own therapist and views herself as a coach in this way. As a result, patients should expect weekly "homework" outside of sessions to practice everything they are learning in therapy.

Dr. Higgins Neyland strongly believes in using evidence-based therapeutic approaches and regularly attends scientific conferences in order to remain current on treatment advances.