About Us

Little Love Warriors is a psychologist- and woman-owned evaluation practice with 20+ years of clinical and research experience helping children and parents thrive in the face of adversity. We are committed to understanding the needs of children, parents, and families throughout Virginia.

Our work is science-based, relationship-focused, family-centered, and culturally informed.

We specialize in conducting evidence-based psychological evaluations with children and caregivers involved in the child welfare system. Our goals are to help families heal from trauma and loss, strengthen the child-parent relationship, and build community partnerships.

Our Team


  • Founder & Clinical Director

    Dr. Gilbert is a child and family clinical psychologist, teacher, and clinician-researcher. She has expertise in the areas of attachment, parenting, child-parent interactions, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

    The idea behind Little Love Warriors was inspired by both motherhood and her clinical work at the Mary D. Ainsworth Child-Parent Attachment Clinic. There, she developed expertise providing evidence-based evaluations and intervention planning for children and caregivers experiencing disruptions in care due to parental separation, divorce, abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption.

    Dr. Gilbert has 20 years of evaluation expertise combining traditional clinical procedures with a range of procedures developed in the basic science research areas of child-parent attachment, adult attachment, child and adult trauma, and parent-child relationship research.

    In addition to Little Love Warriors, Dr. Gilbert is a professor and clinician-researcher of Family Medicine and Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).

    She is mom to a fierce 11-year old little love warrior and this practice is dedicated to her.

Little Love Warriors is committed to training the next generation of clinical psychologists.

Meet Our Current Students:

  • Sydney is a current 5th year doctoral student in clinical psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. She completed her undergraduate education at Spelman College as a Psychology major. Following graduation, she dedicated two years to teaching English Language Arts at Detroit Achievement Academy in Detroit, MI. Her research interests center around identifying risk and protective factors for African American youth exhibiting externalizing behaviors, with a specific focus on enhancing their engagement with mental health services. Her master's thesis focused on examining the parenting behaviors between Black mothers of children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Her clinical interests revolve around working with and engaging underserved youth and their caregivers in evidence-based therapeutic interventions.

  • Taylor is a 4th-year doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at the University of Virginia. Clinically, she is interested in anxiety, depression, trauma, and family of origin challenges and has experience working with teens, emerging adults, and adults with these concerns. She is passionate about using evidence-based evaluation to understand and support individuals and families. Her research focuses on the use of mobile technologies (i.e., smartphones, wearable sensors) as a way to better understand emotional disorders such as anxiety and depression and as an avenue to increase access to care for these conditions.