Adella Nikitiades is a clinical psychologist, practicing in private practice in New York City. She is a psychoanalytic candidate at NYU postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Dr. Nikitiades completed her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, specializing on attachment science. She proceeded to complete her postdoctoral training at Montefiore Medical Center where she worked as an attending psychologist for three years, offering psychotherapy services to adults and children, supervising psychology and psychiatry trainees and lecturing on Trauma Informed Treatment, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Mentalization Based Treatment. She is an adjunct professor at John Jay College for Criminal Justice, where she has taught psychopathology, advanced supervision in victimology, and theories of personality.