Anxiety Related Content

Staff Profile: Matthew Schrock, PhD

Matthew Schrock, PhD, specializes in providing evidence-based treatment in a flexible, personalized manner. Specifically, he focuses on cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mentalization-based approaches for adults...

Staff Profile: Mariola Magovcevic, PhD

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...

Staff Profile: Alex Jordan, PhD

Alex Jordan, PhD, is a clinical psychologist providing behavioral case formulation and therapy for individuals with a wide range of psychiatric conditions at The Pavilion. Dr. Jordan’s treatment approach is science-based, and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, published...

Staff Profile: Stephanie Best, PhD

Stephanie Best, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with expertise in providing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. Best has a special interest in training and supervising clinical staff, students, and early career psychologists in the effective delivery of CBT to...

Staff Profile: Ying Cao, MD, MEng

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...

Staff Profile: Paulina Loo, MD, MPH

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...

Staff Profile: Argyro Caminis, MD, MPH

Argyro (Argo) Caminis MD, MPH, is a psychiatrist working primarily with late adolescents and adults in general practice. Dr. Caminis formerly worked on the Short Term Unit, one of the general inpatient psychiatric units at McLean, as well as in McLean’s Clinical Evaluation Center. She has a private...

Staff Profile: Nikolaos P. Daskalakis, MD, PhD

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 assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also an affiliate...

Staff Profile: Allison R. Foilb, PhD

Allison R. Foilb, PhD, focuses her research at the intersection of stress and learning. She began her research while an undergraduate at Barnard College where she studied the development of the hormonal stress response. As a graduate student at Boston College, Dr. Foilb studied the neural mechanisms...

Staff Profile: Michael Grocki, MA, BSN

Michael Grocki, MA, BSN, is the nurse director of the Short Term Unit, where he supervises the inpatient nursing care of adults with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, including mood disorders. He specializes in the nursing care of adults with depression, anxiety, and personality disorders in an...

Staff Profile: Emily L. Newman, PhD

Emily L. Newman, PhD, is a post-doctoral research fellow with Dr. Kerry Ressler in the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory. Her work focuses on the neurocircuitry and molecular mechanisms that underlie stress and fear-related disorders. She uses highly translational models of social stress combined with...

Staff Profile: Brittany Jordan-Arthur, PhD

Brittany Jordan-Arthur, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in evidence-based treatment for anxiety, mood, and related disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults. Dr. Jordan-Arthur is experienced with interventions promoting coping and adjustment for youth and families with...

Staff Profile: Jennie M. Kuckertz, PhD

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...

Staff Profile: Michelle Silverman, PhD

Michelle Silverman, PhD, is a staff psychologist who works with children, teens, and parents in the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP). She specializes in providing evidence-based treatments, including cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP) to youth...

Staff Profile: Rachel B. Weiss, PhD

Rachel B. Weiss, PhD, is a senior staff psychologist at McLean’s Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program (BHP), with expertise in proven treatments for mood, anxiety, and personality disorders. She is also the associate director of Psychology Training for the McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical...

Staff Profile: Laura M. Diaz, PsyD

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...

Staff Profile: Karmen Koesterer, PsyD

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...

Staff Profile: Ellen S. Gillespie, LICSW

Ellen S. Gillespie, LICSW, is a clinical social worker in the Department of Social Work at McLean Hospital. She completed a one year fellowship in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 2016 and is currently a student in the...

Staff Profile: Nate Gruner, LICSW

Nate Gruner, LICSW, received his MSW from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. He completed a post-graduate fellowship at McLean Hospital’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute, and is currently working there as a staff behavioral therapist. Mr. Gruner has a particular interest in...

Staff Profile: Rebecca Jeans, MSW, LICSW

Rebecca Jeans, LICSW, is the director of admissions at the Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program where she has worked since 2010. She also provides supervision to social workers preparing for their LICSW, and sits on McLean’s Patient and Family Advisory Council. From 2006 to 2010, Ms. Jeans was...