Tamara L. Hartl, PhD

Tamara L. Hartl, PhD, is a clinical instructor at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and a staff psychologist in the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She also has an independent clinical practice in Saratoga, California. Hartl has coauthored several seminal publications on hoarding behavior, including a cognitive-behavioral model of compulsive hoarding that she cocreated in 1996 and later published in Behavior Research and Therapy. Hartl specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and sexual dysfunction as well as compulsive hoarding.