Dr. Abigail Wang earned her medical degree from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her general psychiatry residency at the University of Virginia. She has a particular enthusiasm for providing trauma-informed mental health care and integrating psychodynamic principles into her approach to medication management. At UVA, she was the first physician in the Department of Psychiatry to complete training in Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE), an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She enjoys working with patients within the frameworks of PE, psychodynamic therapy, and parts work to collaboratively overcome symptoms and patterns rooted in both single-event and complex trauma. She is also experienced in group therapy, having led UVA’s outpatient psychodynamic Men’s Therapy Group and facilitated skills-based groups in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP). In addition, she completed training in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.
Dr. Wang has a strong interest in cross-cultural psychiatry– the exploration of how systems of meaning around health and illness are shaped by sociocultural context. As a graduate from UVA’s Global Health Leadership Track, she provided psychiatric care to refugees and asylees at UVA’s International Family Medicine Clinic and conducted evaluations at the Indian Health Service’s Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico. These experiences further deepened her commitment to working with patients who carry complex cultural narratives and have survived historical and intergenerational adversity.
Her academic background includes conducting translational neuroscience research investigating the neurocircuitry of obsessive-compulsive disorder at the University of Pittsburgh and performing qualitative research examining the experiences of LGBTQ+ youth at Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health (now the Impact Institute). Her interest in mental health and psychiatry began while she was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, and she enjoys working in her favorite city with the Nexus Group team and providing care to the broader Pittsburgh community.
In her free time, Dr. Wang enjoys caring for and fostering cats, playing music, and experimenting with new artistic mediums.
Dr. Abigail Wang earned her medical degree from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her general psychiatry residency at the University of Virginia. She has a particular enthusiasm for providing trauma-informed mental health care and integrating psychodynamic principles into her approach to medication management. At UVA, she was the first physician in the Department of Psychiatry to complete training in Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE), an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She enjoys working with patients within the frameworks of PE, psychodynamic therapy, and parts work to collaboratively overcome symptoms and patterns rooted in both single-event and complex trauma. She is also experienced in group therapy, having led UVA’s outpatient psychodynamic Men’s Therapy Group and facilitated skills-based groups in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP). In addition, she completed training in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.
Dr. Wang has a strong interest in cross-cultural psychiatry– the exploration of how systems of meaning around health and illness are shaped by sociocultural context. As a graduate from UVA’s Global Health Leadership Track, she provided psychiatric care to refugees and asylees at UVA’s International Family Medicine Clinic and conducted evaluations at the Indian Health Service’s Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico. These experiences further deepened her commitment to working with patients who carry complex cultural narratives and have survived historical and intergenerational adversity.
Her academic background includes conducting translational neuroscience research investigating the neurocircuitry of obsessive-compulsive disorder at the University of Pittsburgh and performing qualitative research examining the experiences of LGBTQ+ youth at Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health (now the Impact Institute). Her interest in mental health and psychiatry began while she was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, and she enjoys working in her favorite city with the Nexus Group team and providing care to the broader Pittsburgh community.
In her free time, Dr. Wang enjoys caring for and fostering cats, playing music, and experimenting with new artistic mediums.
