Remuda Ranch

A. David Wall, PhD, is the Corporate Director of Psychology and Anxiety Programs at Remuda. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and completed his pre-doctoral internship at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Wall completed a weeklong anxiety workshop with David Barlow. Dr. Wall served as a family therapist at a hospital-based inpatient substance abuse program in Central California. His experience also includes treatment of chronic pain, including the use of biofeedback. Dr. Wall assisted in the development of the California School of Professional Psychology Anxiety and Stress Disorder Treatment Center in Fresno, CA. This program primarily treated Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and OCD spectrum disorders, utilizing exposure with response prevention (ERP). In addition to treating patients directly, he supervised interns in the behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders.

Upon joining the staff at Remuda, he provided education and training to clinical staff on the use of ERP with eating disorder patients who had comorbid OCD and/or whose eating disorder had strong obsessive compulsive components. He has presented on the topic of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders at the Symposium of the International Association of Eating Disorders. His presentations have included discussion of eating disorders as an OC Spectrum Disorder with treatment implications involving ERP. Dr. Wall has authored peer-reviewed journal articles and presented at many professional conferences on eating and anxiety disorder topics. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs discussing eating and anxiety disorders. His primary professional interest is OCD in eating disorders.