Dr. Protti is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in behavioral medicine, with a focus on pre-surgical psychological evaluations for bariatric, pain management, solid organ transplant, and bone marrow transplant procedures.

She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Mississippi, where her dissertation examined emotion regulation in migraine. She completed her pre-doctoral internship, post-doctoral fellowship, and now serves as a staff psychologist in Pain and Rehabilitation Psychology at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, where she was named VA Psychologist of the Quarter in 2025.

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Dr. Protti’s clinical background spans community mental health, academic medical centers, pain clinics, and palliative care, with ongoing collaboration across medicine, physical therapy, and social work. She provides evidence-based care using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for chronic pain, migraine and headache disorders, neurological conditions, and general mental health concerns.

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Her research on psychological factors in migraine and chronic pain has been published in journals including Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain and the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. 

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She is an active member of the American Headache Society (AHS), Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM), and Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), where she currently serves as Communications Director for the ACT in Pain Special Interest Group.

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Affective Motion serves patients and referring providers across Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, with virtual evaluation options available.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​