After graduating from New York University, Dr. Gonzalez attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City.  She completed a 3 year residency in Pediatric medicine at Children's Hospital of Oakland prior to completing a 4 year residency in Psychiatric medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Gonzalez is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She completed a fellowship in psychodynamic psychotherapy followed by a course in Adult Psychoanalytic Thinking at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, in Houston, TX. 

 

Dr. Gonzalez served on the faculty at the Baylor College of Medicine for over a decade and is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, TX. Her career has been marked by treating those severely impacted by mental illness.  She has experience treating college students, post graduate students struggling to fully launch, professionals who may be in the midst of personal or career crises, those impacted by trauma  and people in various stages of life's transitions. In 2019 Dr. Gonzalez was voted one of Houston's top docs by Houstonia Magazine.

 

Her interests include psychodynamic psychotherapy,  evidence based medication management, group therapy, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, life transitions, the somatic (physical) expression of feelings and trauma related illnesses. She is specially trained in psychoanalytically informed psychodynamic therapy.