Dr. Buffington has an interest in providing psychological services to underserved communities. She specializes in completing psychological evaluations, consultation and therapy services to children and adolescents. She combines cognitive behavioral, solution-focused and person-centered approaches to provide support in the areas of trauma, executive functioning difficulties, depression and anxiety.
Dr. Buffington has extensive experience serving children, adolescents and young adults across a variety of settings. Some of her supervised training included completing psychological evaluations and trauma therapy services to youth in foster care at Devereux Treatment Network in Kennesaw, Georgia, and consultation, pain management and short-term therapy services to patients in the AFLAC Cancer and Blood Disorders Department of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. In Texas, she has provided crisis management, risk assessments and short-term therapy services to students in Houston Independent School District (ISD) and completed psychoeducational evaluations in the Spring ISD.