Omar Canosa, MD is board-certified in child/adolescent psychiatry, and adult psychiatry. Dr. Canosa is also trained in medical acupuncture, and uses the framework of Traditional Chinese Medicine to understand his patients more fully, with efforts to balance excess and deficiency informing all aspects of his practice. In May 2015, Dr. Canosa completed a rigorous, six-month intensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an evidence based treatment that combines effective therapy techniques (behavioral, cognitive) with mindfulness and acceptance practices adapted from the Zen buddhist tradition. By virtue of his unique training, and guided by his personal and professional philosphy, Dr. Canosa is dedicated to both addressing  symptoms and problems, as well as to maximizing each client's capacity for experiencing and sustaining wellbeing, in all areas of life.

Dr. Canosa was born and raised in Miami, FL, and is fluent in both English and Spanish. He attended medical school in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, graduating with a doctorate in medicine from Universidad Central del Este in 1999. General psychiatry residency training was at Temple University School of Medicine (2002-2006), and child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Drexel University College of Medicine (2006-2008). 
From 2008 to 2014, Dr. Canosa was the adolescent psychiatrist at the Eating Disorders Program at Atlantic Health (Overlook Medical Center; Summit, NJ). As an eating disorders expert on a multidisciplinary team, Dr. Canosa provided care to adolescents and young adults suffering with eating disorders. His intellectual leadership contributed to this program's evolution towards evidence based eating disorders practice, and the incorporation of emerging psychotherapies meant to improve treatment outcomes.

In his spare time, Dr. Canosa enjoys practicing martial arts and mindfulness meditation, playing guitar (badly) and latin percussion (a little less badly), writing and spending time with his family.