Feminist Psychotherapy and Attachment Trauma Consultant
Nia Project
Senior Associate Consultant of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, AZ
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Biography
She/Her/Hers
Shweta Kapoor, MD, PhD, serves as a Senior Associate Consultant of Psychiatry and the Associate Director of Psychiatry Clerkship at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University. Additionally, she is a Research Consultant at The Menninger Clinic in Houston, TX. Dr. Kapoor has completed graduate training in both Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology. She received a medical degree from India and a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from The University of Alabama, followed by internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. She went on to complete a psychiatry residency at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston as a research track resident. Dr. Kapoor’s research and clinical interests are focused on feminist psychology, attachment trauma, emotional pain, suicidality, chronic pain, complex trauma, health disparities, and psycho-oncology. Dr. Kapoor has an existential therapeutic approach focusing on meaning-centered therapy work and death anxiety in the context of complex childhood trauma and suffering in adulthood. Dr. Kapoor has a background in working with disadvantaged patient populations, particularly indigent women, and empirically evaluating how inequities are maintained and perpetuated in mental healthcare delivery.