Mona Potter, MD

Mona Potter, MD, is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. She has played multiple roles over the course of her time at McLean and currently supports the McLean School Consultation Service and the MGH/McLean Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. During her previous role as the medical director of McLean’s Child and Adolescent Outpatient Services, Dr. Potter was integral in building the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP) and the McLean School Consultation Service. Passionate about incorporating cutting-edge technologies into treatment, she also served on the executive committee for the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, through which she spearheaded the use of virtual reality for exposure therapy at MAMP.

Dr. Potter is extensively trained in a range of evidence-based therapies, including medication evaluation and management, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and motivational interviewing (MI).