Inclusive Minds Foundation Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Rahimeh Andalibian, known to most simply as “Dr. A”, founded the Inclusive Minds Foundation out of a vision she has carried throughout her 25+ year career: to create a world where neurodivergent individuals and their families can access affirming, culturally sensitive, trauma-informed support without navigating financial or systemic barriers.
As a clinical psychologist licensed in New York, California, and Maine, and a PsyPact provider, Dr. A has spent decades working at the intersection of neurodivergence, trauma, family systems, and culture. Across her career, she has led multidisciplinary teams, conducted hundreds of comprehensive neuropsychological and forensic evaluations, and provided therapy for individuals, couples, and families navigating complex emotional, relational, and developmental needs.
Through both her clinical work and her personal story of displacement and trauma – told in her memoir The Rose Hotel – Dr. A has seen how deeply people suffer when the systems meant to support them fall short. Over years of leading Spectrum Services, her private multidisciplinary practice, she witnessed many individuals and families who needed affirming, specialized care but could not access it due to cost, limited availability, or lack of providers trained in neurodivergence and trauma. She founded Inclusive Minds Foundation to change that, expanding access, reducing financial barriers, training the next generation of affirming clinicians, and developing programs that traditional private practice alone cannot sustain.
As President and Clinical Director of IMF, Dr. A provides clinical supervision and consultation for complex cases, guides the evaluation program, and shapes the therapeutic philosophy across all IMF offerings. She oversees the development of our services – retreats, groups, educational programs, and specialty tracks for all neurotypes, including autistic, ADHD, OCD, and trauma-impacted individuals – ensuring that the organization’s approach remains neurodivergence-affirming, culturally attuned, and deeply human. Her background in EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, trauma-focused CBT, family systems, mindfulness, and psychedelic harm reduction informs her supervision and supports clinicians across a wide range of needs.
Spectrum Services, Dr. A’s long-standing private practice, continues as her personal clinical home for therapy and evaluations. As Spectrum transitions its community-facing work into the nonprofit, Dr. A maintains continuity and leadership, providing the clinical oversight that connects the two entities. Spectrum Services now serves as her clinical arm, while Inclusive Minds Foundation expands reach through our carefully curated team.
Dr. A’s career has spanned private practice, forensic evaluation, trauma treatment, cognitive learning centers, graduate-level teaching, and comprehensive supervision of developing clinicians. Across all of these spaces, her driving force has remained the same: to honor people’s stories, reduce barriers to care, and build systems that truly see and support neurodivergent individuals and their families. Her leadership of Inclusive Minds Foundation is the natural continuation of that mission.
To contact Dr. A, please reach out on her website at spectrumservicesnyc.com.
