Sally Winston, PsyD
Dr. Winston is founder and executive director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland, which is an independent center located on the campus of Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore. She has been working in the field of anxiety disorders and OCD for four decades and was nationally recognized with the inaugural Jerilyn Ross Award of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) in 2011. She is co-author (with Dr Martin Seif) of What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Anxiety Disorders, Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts (which has been translated into nine languages), and Needing to Know for Sure. Their current book (in press) is Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety. She has a blog called Living with a Sticky Mind at PsychologyToday.com. Her workshops present her evidence-informed integrative approach to anxiety disorders and OCD. She was recently honored by the Maryland Psychological Association with an award for outstanding contribution to the education and training of psychologists. She still maintains an active clinical practice.
Dr. Winston was born and brought up in Montreal, Canada. She has three adult daughters who live in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. and two granddaughters. Her late husband Morton Winston was an acclaimed international human rights scholar and activist.
