Dr. Dhruve is a postdoctoral psychology fellow in the VA Palo Alto Health Care System's (VAPAHCS) Behavioral Medicine (BMed) program where she provides clinical services to Veteran's with a wide range of presenting problems. Dr. Dhruve serves in the Pulmonary Sleep Clinic, treating insomnia and PAP adherence. She also provides individual treatment for pain, weight management, sleep disturbances, and assessment for pre-transplant evaluations. Dr. Dhruve is currently working toward her clinical psychology license.
Prior to this, Dr. Dhruve was a doctoral resident at VAPAHCS in the BMed track. Dr. Dhruve completed rotations in BMed (Pain, bariatric surgery, pulmonary sleep, and hematology/oncology focus clinics, and BMed outpatient clinic), Inpatient Psychiatry, and Addiction Treatment Services. During internship, she became a CPT certified provider.
Dr. Dhruve was a Magnolia Scholar in Integrated Behavioral Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) Children's Cancer Clinic. In her training, she worked within an integrated pediatric team to provide mental health services to children diagnosed with cancer and blood-related disorders. She provided therapeutic interventions to pediatric patients. She also assessed the cognitive and emotional functioning of pediatric patients using neuropsychological assessments.
Dr. Dhruve was a graduate student clinician at the Mississippi State University (MSU) Psychology Clinic. She trained in various empirically supported treatments, including cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavioral, and acceptance and commitment therapies. Dr. Dhruve also administered, scored, and interpreted empirically supported psychodiagnostic and neuropsychological assessments.
Through the MSU Psychology Clinic, Dr. Dhruve worked with court-referred youth and families of varying background, histories, and presenting problems (e.g., anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, abuse, neglect, truancy, oppositional-defiant/conduct behaviors, medical comorbidities). She also provided telehealth services through a state-funded grant for children and adolescents with a varying range of psychological problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She served as a graduate assistant at the MSU psychology clinic for three semesters. During this time she managed clinic calls, completed phone screenings, updated clinic waitlists, provided individual and group therapy to meet clinic needs, provided oversight of junior graduate clinicians, and established telehealth policies and procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic.