Dr. Peter is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California. She was a professor of psychology for eight years at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, where she directed the graduate program in psychology. She earned her Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley and completed postdoctoral fellowships in social and clinical psychology at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA and at the Devereaux Foundation, a residential facility near the University of California at Santa Barbara. She also conducted research at RAND, a think tank in Santa Monica, California, in the areas of counter-terrorism and computer-mediated education.

Dr. Peter is certified in Homeland Security by the American Board of Psychological Specialties, is a volunteer for Disaster Mental Health at Red Cross, and is on the Disaster Response committee of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association. Dr. Peter works primarily with a clinical population suffering a range of anxiety manifestations, from simple and mild anxieties to traumatized reactions. She has helped restabilize survivors and witnesses of 9/11, Iranian refugees, and Israeli victims of terrorist attacks. Recently, she has developed a passion for the neuropsychological sciences and has received certification in Applied Neuroscience from Cambridge College. In her practice she is experimenting with the fusion of latest technological and ancient yogic treatments for anxiety

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