Aprilia West

Aprilia West, PsyD, MT, is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in treating anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and trauma. She first became interested in the concept of emotion efficacy working as a former advisor, organizational consultant, mediator, and executive coach to members of Congress, Fortune 500 companies, entertainment industry professionals, and international advocacy campaigns, where she observed the impact of emotion reactivity and dysregulation on performance and quality of life. During her doctoral training, West developed emotion efficacy therapy (EET) with Matthew McKay, PhD, as a way to provide clients struggling with low emotion efficacy with affordable access to rapid change. West holds a PsyD in clinical psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, and a master’s degree in teaching from the University of Virginia.