Practice Philosophy:
Dr. Ryan C.T. DeLapp is a child, adolescent, and adult psychologist who treats anxiety, depression, and cultural stress. Dr. DeLapp centers treatment around an individual’s values and strengths, and then explores how psychotherapy can support them in learning to navigate any barriers to achieving important life goals. Engaging and compassionate, Dr. DeLapp creates a comfortable setting for patients to share their personal experiences and relates easily to young people. When working with children, Dr. DeLapp includes parents in consultation and shares strategies so that parents can more effectively support their child. Patients develop greater self-confidence and learn to expand their sense of agency in pursuing their goals and living the life they desire. He helps individuals explore and foster acceptance towards the complexities within their identity, and promotes healing from the cognitive and emotional impacts of stressors within their lives.
Areas of Expertise:
Dr. DeLapp specializes in treating individuals struggling with anxiety, phobias, panic disorder, ADHD, racial trauma and depression. He draws from evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Dr DeLapp is widely recognized for his expertise in supporting minority individuals with healing from and learning to navigate cultural stressors within their lives and has developed a novel program called REACH (Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Healing). The REACH Program adapts CBT and ACT treatments to help BIPOC individuals embrace and respect their cultural backgrounds and seeks to help teens and adults develop protective skills to alleviate the impact of cultural and racial stressors.
Experience and Training:
Dr. DeLapp earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Louisville and is a licensed psychologist in New York, Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. He received specialized training in CBT, DBT, and ACT during his pre-doctoral internship at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY and further specialization in CBT and ACT as a staff psychologist in clinical practice. He completed additional training in CBT through an APA-approved CBT Training Institute. Dr. DeLapp has practiced in a variety of clinical settings including private practice, university clinics, and hospital-based clinics. He was an assistant professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, attending psychologist at Montefiore’s Child/Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Division, and worked at Einstein’s Student Mental Health Center. He has lectured for master’s and doctoral level students, and supervised the clinical services provided by psychology and psychiatry trainees.
Dr. DeLapp is publishing a workbook based on the concepts of REACH, titled Empower Yourself Against Racial and Cultural Stress: Using Skills from the REACH Program to Heal, Cope, and Thrive, set to be published in March of 2025. He uses his training and expertise to promote the empowerment, self-acceptance, and healing of the patients he serves.
Dr. DeLapp is meeting with children, teens and adults virtually from New York, Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia.
Watch Dr. DeLapp describe the REACH program below, and learn more about the REACH program here,
Email Dr. DeLapp at: REACH@rosscenter.com
Blog Posts and Events:
- Facilitator: Empowered Living: A Culturally-Informed, Strengths-based CBT Approach – Webinar Series
- News: Dr. DeLapp quoted in Washington Post Story on Racism and Depression in Black Adolescents
- Facilitator: Supporting Young People of Color – 10 Hour CE Training
- Blog Post/Video: Talking to Parents about Anxiety in Teens: VIDEO
- Blog Post and Podcast: Social Media and Video Gaming: What should parents be concerned about and what can they do?
- News: Dr. DeLapp on how Religious Institutions can Support BIPOC Youth
- News: Ryan DeLapp quoted in Washington Post and CNN news articles
- Professional Development Webinar: Promoting Empowerment in Therapy: A New Model for Culturally Responsive Assessment & Treatment Planning
- News: Dr. DeLapp featured in 2 Podcasts
- Professional Development Webinar: Racial Ethnic, and Cultural Healing: Cognitive Behavioral Assessment and Treatment Approaches for Racism-related Stress
- Blog Post: Introduction to the REACH Program at The Ross Center
