Edna Foa

Edna Foa is an Israeli professor of clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she serves as the director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety.

[1] Foa is an internationally renowned authority in the field of psychopathology and treatment of anxiety.

In that same year she completed her PhD in clinical psychology and personality at the University of Missouri.

[3] Her research, aimed at determining causes and treatments of anxiety disorders, has been highly influential.

The program she has developed for rape survivors is considered to be one of the most effective therapies for PTSD.