Karina Powell, PhD

Much of my train­ing has been in reha­bil­i­ta­tion neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy, and it is from the tenets of this method­ol­o­gy that I aim to encour­age and sup­port opti­mal func­tion­al inde­pen­dence and qual­i­ty of life for all my patients. I approach clin­i­cal prac­tice with a strong belief in the impor­tance of indi­vid­u­al­ized treat­ment and care tai­lored to each patient’s needs. Shared deci­sion mak­ing plays a cen­tral role in my clin­i­cal per­spec­tive. That is, in any inter­ac­tion between a patient and provider, there are two experts in the room; the provider, who brings knowl­edge regard­ing their med­ical spe­cial­ty and best prac­tices with­in their field, and the patient, who is the expert in their own expe­ri­ences, lifestyle, and per­son­al val­ues. It is my phi­los­o­phy that the jour­ney through neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal assess­ment is enhanced with col­lab­o­ra­tion and active par­tic­i­pa­tion in a shared deci­sion mak­ing approach.