Bio
Kim Bullock is a clinician and researcher at Stanford University's Virtual Reality and Immersive Technology Clinic, where she leads the development and application of immersive technologies—primarily virtual reality (VR)—for the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders. Her work includes designing and implementing VR-based interventions for conditions such as functional neurological disorder, depression, eating disorders, hoarding disorder, and other psychiatric illnesses, often augmenting traditional therapies with immersive experiences to improve clinical outcomes, patient engagement, and skills acquisition. Dr. Bullock also concentrates on group interventions for neuropsychiatric illnesses and has developed and reported on the adaptation of group dialectical behavior therapy skills training (DBT-ST) as a specific therapeutic method for adults with functional neurological disorders such as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES).
Dr. Bullock received her undergraduate degree with honors and distinction in physiology and psychology from the University of California, San Diego, Revelle College and her medical degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC. She completed an internship in internal medicine at Washington Hospital in D.C. and a psychiatry residency at Stanford University. She is a diplomat in the subspecialties of Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry and Lifestyle Medicine. She is currently appointed Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within Stanford’s School of Medicine. She has published many peer-reviewed articles and is a Cambridge and Oxford Press author.
Dr. Bullock takes a holistic, nonjudgmental, customized, and personal approach to each patient and encourages family and community involvement.
https://stanfordvrit.org/
https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/patient_care/vrit.html
https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/psychiatry/documents/clinical/fnd/SHCDBT4FND.pdf
