Dr. El Behadli works with children, adolescents, and young adults struggling with anxiety, OCD, chronic illness or pain, and suicidality or self-harm. She also providers parent consultation for parents of children and adolescents with various emotional and behavioral difficulties.

Prior to co-founding Clear Mind Collective Psychology Group, Dr. El-Behadli was a pediatric psychologist at Dell Children’s Medical Center and an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UT Austin’s Dell Medical School. Since transitioning to private practice, Dr. El-Behadli has remained actively involved in consultation, training, and research. She holds a courtesy medical staff appointment at Dell Children’s Medical Center where she provides consultation to the psychiatric intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs (IOP/PHP). She also serves as Affiliate Faculty in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UT Austin’s Dell Medical School where she provides clinical supervision and training to psychology and psychiatry trainees.

As part of her commitment to evidence-based care, Dr. El-Behadli continues to be involved in academic research. Dr. El-Behadli is a co-investigator on a national, multi-site study funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. El-Behadli has published her research in peer-reviewed journals and presented at professional conferences nationwide, receiving recognition at a national level.

Dr. El-Behadli received her PhD in clinical psychology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she also completed her APA-accredited predoctoral internship. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her educational background also includes a master’s degree in Child and Human Development from Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Rice University. Dr. El-Behadli has trained and worked at some of the top academic medical centers in the country including Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital/Stanford University School of Medicine and Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Dr. El-Behadli is licensed to practice in the State of Texas (PSY 38524).