Barbara Pavlova

Dr. Barbara Pavlova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine. She holds appointments at the Mood Disorders Program within the Nova Scotia Health Authority. Her research focuses on anxiety disorders in individuals with mood disorders, early interventions, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) applications. She leads a pilot study on CBT for social anxiety disorder in bipolar disorder patients and collaborates on youth mental health prevention projects.

• Education:
• MA (Palacky University, Czech Republic)
• PhD (Charles University, Prague)
• DClinPsy (King’s College London)
• Postgraduate Diploma in CBT (King’s College London)

Her research interests emphasize identifying comorbidity patterns between mood and anxiety disorders, childhood behavioral inhibition’s role in anxiety development, and familial risk factors in major depressive disorder. She has contributed to high-impact studies in JAMA Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, and Lancet Psychiatry.

Dr. Pavlova teaches psychological therapies for mood disorders and supervises CBT trainees. She is affiliated with the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies and the Canadian Psychological Association.