Anxiety Related Content

Maria G Fraire, PhD, is the program director of McLean’s Child and Adolescent OCD Institute (OCDI Jr.). She is a licensed clinical psychologist and specializes in the treatment of severe anxiety, OCD, and co-occurring disorders, specifically utilizing cognitive behavior therapy and exposure and...

Yan Li, PhD, received his PhD from the Shanghai Brain Research Institute in China. During his doctoral studies he characterized anatomical substrates of synaptic integration in hypoglossal motoneurons in rats. With the help of the NIH Fogarty International Fellowship, he continued his research in...

Andrew M. Kuller, PsyD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist with expertise in the delivery of evidence-based treatments including cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). He is a senior clinical team manager in the Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and an assistant professor of...

Jessica Goldstein, PhD, works primarily with adolescents and young adults and their families struggling with emotion dysregulation and anxiety and the impact that has on safety and functioning. At McLean, Dr. Goldstein is a school psychologist and director of training for the Arlington School, in...

Munya Hayek, MD, is triple board-certified in child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, and pediatrics. She is the associate medical director of the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and serves as associate program director of the MGH/McLean Child and Adolescent...

Jenifer M. Cullen, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in working with teens and adults struggling with anxiety disorders, OCD, and OCD spectrum disorders such as body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania and excoriation disorder. Dr. Cullen is a full-time behavioral therapist...

Sara Thomason, PsyD, is a psychologist at the McLean SouthEast Adult Psychiatric Partial Hospital Program where she serves as a clinical case manager and primary supervisor for APA pre-doctoral psychology interns.

Karen Monroe, MD, has been the medical director of McLean Hospital’s Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic since 2004. She also serves as the child and adolescent psychiatrist for the 3East DBT Outpatient Clinic at McLean. A dedicated teacher, Dr. Monroe coordinates the Child Outpatient Rotation...

Jane Eisen, MD, is a faculty development senior advisor for the Office of the Chief Academic Officer at McLean Hospital. Dr. Eisen’s clinical and research areas of interest are anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder, and she also has a longstanding interest in education, as well as...

Jacob A. Nota, PhD, ABPP, engages in a program of clinical and translational research focusing on the nature and treatment of obsessive compulsive and related disorders. His specialty is in the intersection between sleep, circadian rhythms, and anxiety disorders. Dr. Nota’s research has specifically...

Mariola Magovcevic, PhD, earned her bachelor of arts in psychology from Clark University, her master of science in counseling psychology from Northeastern University, and her doctorate in clinical psychology from Clark University. She completed both her pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training at...

Alex Jordan, PhD, provides behavioral case formulation and therapy for individuals with a wide range of complex psychiatric conditions. Dr. Jordan’s clinical approach is rooted in psychological science, and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, cited over 7000 times, and...

Ying Cao, MD, MEng, practices personalized and integrative psychiatry guided by concepts from systems engineering, developmental and cross-cultural psychology, as well as evolving paradigms of psychiatry and general medicine. Her interests include traditional mind-body medicine, modern molecular and...

Paulina Loo, MD, is the medical director at the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP). She provides evaluation and medication management for the children and adolescents who are treated at MAMP. Dr. Loo also collaborates with the clinical staff at a local high school. She has a strong interest in...

Nikolaos P. Daskalakis, MD, PhD, is the director of the Neurogenomics and Translational Bioinformatics Laboratory, part of the Advanced Bioinformatics and Computational Discovery Hub, at McLean Hospital and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also an affiliate...

Jennie M. Kuckertz, PhD, is a research psychologist at the OCD Institute and is a recent recipient of the Corneel Young Investigator Award at McLean Hospital. Her research interests are in mechanisms of treatment for OCD and anxiety disorders, including traditional interventions such as exposure and...

Michelle Silverman, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP), an intensive outpatient program for youth with primary anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and related disorders. She specializes in providing evidence-based treatment—including cognitive...

Laura M. Diaz, PsyD, is a staff psychologist at McLean Hospital’s Adult Outpatient Services. She has received extensive training in a variety of emotional and interpersonal issues, and specializes in the treatment of anxiety and perinatal/postpartum concerns. Dr. Diaz uses evidence-based treatments...

Karmen Koesterer, PsyD, obtained her undergraduate degree in special education from Grand Valley State University. She worked as a special educator before earning her master’s degree from Harvard University. She then worked in the field of autism research for several years. As a doctoral student in...

Kristin McCarthy, MSW, LICSW, began her career working with individuals and families struggling with eating disorders. She developed an interest in providing individual and group therapy and family support for those in higher levels of care. Ms. McCarthy joined the McLean Hospital social work float...