Seoka Salstrom, PhD

Seoka Salstrom, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who previously specialized in mindfulness and acceptance-based CBTs for the treatment of anxiety, OCD, and depression for 20 years.

Dr. Salstrom received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2006 from the University of Georgia. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Durham VA Medical Center/Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC and post-doctoral fellowship in health psychology at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, WI. She then served as the clinical coordinator of the Anxiety and OCD Treatment and Research Program at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS) and practiced at the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center in Chicago, IL.

In 2010, Dr. Salstrom co-founded the Chicago CBT Center whose mission was to practice and train evidence-based therapies. Before her departure, the center had four locations and ten clinicians. She maintained adjunct faculty positions at RFUMS and the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine while co-directing the Chicago CBT Center. She is the former president of the Mindfulness and Acceptance Special Interest Group within the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) as well as a founding member, 2014 annual conference co-chair, and former Vice President of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Chicago Chapter.

Dr. Salstrom moved to the Upper Valley in the fall of 2015. In January of 2017, she started Hanover CBT. In the last few years, she acted as a consulting psychologist for Mountain Valley Treatment Center, co-created the Upper Valley OCD Support Group, and served as Grand Rounds and seminar speaker, CHAD Youth Summit facilitator, and therapy supervisor for the chief child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at DHMC. She is on the executive board of IOCDF Affiliate OCD New Hampshire and is a current member of APA, ABCT, ACBS, and IOCDF.

Dr. Salstrom has given presentations at national and international conferences, recent local and national print media interviews related to anxiety in youth, and provided workshops to professionals and consumers on topics within the CBTs such as ACT and ERP, Process-Based Therapy, gut-brain connection, mindful parenting, OCD, and anxiety in children and adolescents. She has taught and supervised graduate students, interns, postdoctoral fellows, residents, psychiatrists, and social workers in mindfulness and acceptance-based CBTs.

*no longer conducting clinical work