Psychologists

Patrick J. Nisco, II, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Director

Dr. Nisco is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and adults, addressing concerns such as ADHD, Autism and Asperger's, depression and anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, personality disorders, and addictions. He provides psychological testing to help clarify diagnoses, assist with medication considerations, and offer treatment recommendations.

Dr. Nisco received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Pacific Graduate School in Palo Alto, California, and obtained both his Masters in Clinical Psychology and Bachelors in Psychology from Loyola University in Maryland. He has trained at the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Menlo Park, CA, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Veteran Administration (VA) Hospitals in Palo Alto, CA and Baltimore, MD; providing psychological evaluations, and individual and group psychotherapy. He completed his internship at the Spring Grove Hospital Center working with adolescent and adult inpatients conducting psychological evaluations for admission and forensic wards. His postdoctoral residency with the Patuxent Institution minimum security prison included administering psychological evaluations and group psychotherapy with inmates addressing anger management, developing positive social skills, and substance abuse treatment.

Prior to joining SBHS, Dr. Nisco has been on staff as a psychotherapist with outpatient community mental health centers providing psychological testing, individual, family, and couples psychotherapy with all ages, addressing communication skills, behavioral concerns, addictions, and serious mental illnesses. In private practice, Dr. Nisco uses an approach based primarily on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and will also utilize other styles of treatment to include a client centered, strength based, solution focused approach.

Roy Wilensky, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Wilensky was born and raised in Philadelphia, where he graduated from an experimental high school, played percussion in a community orchestra, and attended an arts camp on scholarship. He came to the Washington area to attend George Washington University; during his undergraduate years there he joined an archaeological team in Ecuador and eventually received a BA in anthropology. Since then he has traveled and studied extensively in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, and his encounters with diverse peoples along the way has inspired him to seek a more direct application of his social-science and natural-science backgrounds. He has therefore continued on to receive an MSW degree, a Psy.D. degree in clinical psychology, and a postdoctoral MS degree in clinical psychopharmacology while also gaining fluency in Spanish.

As a doctoral student, Dr. Wilensky completed advanced coursework in forensic psychology and in family and couples psychotherapy. He has also completed advanced training in clinical hypnosis. He was chief psychology intern at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute in Salt Lake City, and completed his post-doctoral training with Forensic Health Services, Inc., in Washington, DC. Having worked in outpatient, inpatient, partial-hospitalization, correctional, and court settings, he offers psychological testing for children, adolescents, and adults; individual, family, and couples therapy for adolescents and adults; and forensic and disability evaluations of juveniles and adults. He currently works, on a pro-bono basis, with the Washington-based Torture Abolition and Survivors and Support Coalition (TASSC) and Healthright International (formerly Doctors of the World), providing evaluations and documentation for asylum seekers alleging a history of torture and other human-rights abuses in their home countries. Dr. Wilensky has received media recognition as well as several awards and honors for his work, including one from the Commonwealth of Virginia for his grant-funded work developing and implementing community-based assessment and stress-management programs in the aftermath of September 11 and related events. Dr. Wilensky is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association and the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.