Dr. Falla founded Neuropsychology Consultants with a vision of bringing together outstanding clinicians offering state-of-the-art evaluation and treatment in the fields of clinical psychology and neuropsychology. She is a licensed psychologist with a specialization in Clinical Neuropsychology, focusing on the evaluation and treatment of individuals across the developmental lifespan who are experiencing cognitive, emotional, social, or behavioral difficulties. She provides services to individuals in the office on an outpatient basis and also on an inpatient basis at Medical City McKinney, including behavioral health and medical rehabilitation. In working with children and adolescents, Dr. Falla helps to enhance understanding of their functioning in several domains. With consideration of their strengths and weaknesses, she works with parents to develop a plan of intervention to help the child or adolescent fulfill their potential in multiple domains of life. Typical referral issues include ADHD, learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, other neurodevelopmental problems, and traumatic brain injury. She also helps with emotional difficulties, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and adjustment disorder. In working with adults, she conducts evaluations for neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD, emotional difficulties, and differential diagnosis of dementia and other neurologically based problems. Typical referral issues include Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia, Frontotemporal dementia, Vascular dementia due to major stroke or microvascular disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, brain tumor, seizure disorder, and traumatic brain injury. She works with individuals and families to help them work toward positive emotional adaptation to life changes associated with a family member’s decline in cognitive or physical functioning. She treats her patients with compassion and respect as they seek to understand the basis of problems they are experiencing, and discusses with them practical and accessible ways of improving their quality of life. Dr. Falla earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology (APA-accredited) and her master’s degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas. She earned her bachelor's degree in Psychology from Arizona State University, graduating summa cum laude. Prior to this, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Arizona State University. Afterward, she worked for five years as a Software Engineer for Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems, collaborating with systems engineers and hardware engineers to produce flight control (autopilot) systems for commercial aircraft. As she transitioned her analytical skills into the field of clinical psychology, she evaluated children receiving neuro-oncology services at Cook Children’s Medical Center in preparing her dissertation, “The Relationship between Executive and Psychosocial Functioning in Children Treated for a Brain Tumor.” She had a focus on neuropsychological evaluation and treatment of both children and adults during her graduate practica with the Traumatic Brain Injury Program at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas, Baylor Our Children’s House in Dallas, and Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth. She furthered her specialized clinical training on internship at the APA-accredited Oklahoma Health Consortium in Oklahoma City (including rotations at the Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Hospital, Neuropsychology Associates at the Mercy Hospital Neuroscience Institute, and the Child Study Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center). Her postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology was completed at the Center for Psychological Development in Sherman, Texas, where she conducted in- depth neuropsychological evaluations with both inpatient and outpatient populations. Inpatient settings included acute care, rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and psychiatry. Dr. Falla currently holds privileges at the Medical City McKinney where she sees patients in behavioral health and medical rehabilitation. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of North Texas. She has given presentations on many topics, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Dementia, Depression, and Coping with Stress at Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation, Raytheon, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Texas Woman's University, Wilson Jones Medical Center, Community Specialty Hospital, and several preschools, retirement communities, and hospice care facilities. She has written a book chapter on Neuropsychological Assessment in "Disability and Accommodations in Higher Education: A Handbook for Disability Advisors." She is a member of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, American Psychological Association (including Division 40: Clinical Neuropsychology), Texas Psychological Association, and Collin County Psychological Association, and a founding member of the Dallas Fort Worth Neuropsychological Association.