General Info

Dr. Ashlyn Parides was born and raised in Texas near the DFW metroplex. She obtained her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2021 and completed her Pre-Doctoral Internship at Children’s Health in partnership with UT Southwestern. Prior to her graduate education, Dr. Parides worked as a milieu therapist at Children’s Health in the Center of Pediatric Eating Disorders. Dr. Parides completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Austin College in 2014. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Preston Hollow Health & Wellness. Throughout her clinical training, Dr. Parides worked with individuals across the lifespan, including children, adolescents, adults and elderly patients. Dr. Parides spent two years at Children’s Health, which afforded her broad exposure to a variety of patient populations and various modalities of patient care. While at Children’s, Dr. Parides administered psychological assessments to children and also provided short-term therapy and treatment planning to patients through the consult-liaison service. During her time at Children’s, Dr. Parides was also able to partner with and serve several specialty groups at the hospital, including Eating Disorders, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Cardiology, Solid Organ Transplant, and the Sleep Center. As part of her doctoral training, Dr. Parides provided services to adults facing mental health crises, including suicidal ideation, at the Parkland Inpatient Psychiatry and Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. She also maintained a caseload of long-term therapy clients over the course of several years through the Southwest Clinic. Dr. Parides is passionate about working with individuals struggling with disordered eating patterns, body image concerns, postpartum and infertility, as well as depression, stress, and anxiety. She has a special interest in working with adolescents, young adults, new moms, and in completing psychological assessments.