ABOUT dr. b

Dr. Bancroft completed her clinical internship training and postdoc at Yale University's School of Medicine, where she specialized in clinical health psychology; specifically sleep, substance use, and the intersection of health and mental health. She graduated from Pepperdine University's Psy.D. program and received her Master's and Undergraduate degrees from Loyola University in Maryland.

 

Dr. Bancroft's clinical approach is based on a holistic model that incorporates the sociocultural contextual factors of an individual's unique life circumstance, with the evidence-based, efficacious treatments that have been proven to help an individual heal. Her ability to combine these effective all-natural treatments with presence, compassion, and understanding help her clients to achieve successful outcomes in a positive environment. Dr. Bancroft co-creates personalized, tailored treatment plans with each and every client to assist them with their goals and values related to their sleep and lifestyle. Ultimately, she helps others improve their sleep by teaching them long-lasting and durable skills that will last a lifetime, while supporting her clients in fostering self-insight into the contexts that put them at risk of insomnia. She strongly values the idea of a client-centered, holistic treatment environment, and the importance of focusing on wellness and growth.  

 

Dr. B's clinical expertise goes well beyond insomnia and sleep wellness to include certifications and training in specialty areas of health psychology, primary care psychology, substance use, dual-diagnosis conditions, anxiety disorders, grief/loss, cultivating leadership skills, coping skills, and communication skills, affecting behavior change, motivational interviewing, stress relief, mindfulness and relaxation, and working with patients who have experienced trauma. Dr. Bancroft operates mostly from a cognitive behavioral lens, and incorporates relational and dynamic techniques when working with patients. She utilizes a social justice, liberation health, and trauma informed frameworks in her conceptualizations and approach to care, and while teaching and training medical and psychology trainees.

 

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. B trains medical residents and psychology externs, and directs a postdoctoral fellowship program in advanced primary care. Her interests and activities include advocating for marginalized populations, completing work in anti-racism, and working to eliminate health disparities. Click here to read Dr. Bancroft's position statement on anti-racism.

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