Child & Adolescent Related Content

Staff Profile: Fairlee C. Fabrett, PhD

Fairlee C. Fabrett, PhD, is the director of training and staff development for McLean’s child and adolescent division. She oversees and develops psychology training programs across the division. Dr. Fabrett is the coordinator for the child and adolescent tracks of the McLean APA psychology...

Staff Profile: Perihan Esra Guvenek-Cokol, MD

Perihan Esra Guvenek-Cokol, MD, is a double board certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. She specializes in emerging mental illness in teens and young adults. Her expertise is in early stages of psychotic and bipolar disorders, along with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders. Dr...

Staff Profile: Munya Hayek, MD

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...

Staff Profile: Maris Prichett, PsyD

Maris Prichett, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in the 3East Partial Hospital Program and an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has extensive experience diagnosing and treating adolescents and young adults who experience emotion dysregulation...

Staff Profile: Sara Land, PhD

Sara Land, PhD, has been providing dialectical behavior therapy to adolescents and adults for over ten years. She specializes in treating adolescents and young adults who are struggling with emotional dysregulation, self-harm, and suicidality. Dr. Land has conducted research on the quality of the...

Staff Profile: R. Meredith Elkins, PhD

R. Meredith Elkins, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in the cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety, mood, and related disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults. She is experienced in providing evidence-based interventions through individual, group, family, and behavioral...

Staff Profile: Anna Precht, PsyD

Anna Precht, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and a senior clinical consultant at McLean’s Arlington School. She has extensive experience treating adults and adolescents using DBT in individual, group, and milieu modalities. Previously at McLean, she worked closely with colleagues to develop and...

Staff Profile: Robert L. Doyle, DDS, MD

Robert L. Doyle, DDS, MD, began his career focusing on research while maintaining an active outpatient practice at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. He spent five years working with faculty and staff at Harvard University Health Services before changing direction to primarily...

Staff Profile: Karen Monroe, MD

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...

Staff Profile: Karen Steves, MS

Karen Steves, MS, has worked at McLean since 2001. As co-director of Pathways Academy, she works to establish a safe and therapeutic environment for staff and students. Ms. Steves has been a certified trainer with the Crisis Prevention Institute since 2009 and is currently a master level certified...

Staff Profile: Michael Macht-Greenberg, PhD, MPH

Michael Macht-Greenberg, PhD, MPH, is an accomplished clinician-executive dedicated to overseeing the delivery of patient-centered, integrated care across behavioral health, primary care, medicine, and surgical services. He has had demonstrated, measurable success improving clinical outcomes, access...

Staff Profile: Tracy K. Mullare, MD

Tracy K. Mullare, MD, completed her combined pediatric, general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry residency at Brown University. She has been medical director of Walden Behavioral Care Eating Disorder Services specializing in the medical and psychiatric management of adolescents with...

Staff Profile: Meghan H. Bowsher, LICSW

Meghan H. Bowsher, LICSW, worked as a clinical team manager at the Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program at McLean Hospital since 2016. She is now clinical team manager for the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program. Ms. Bowsher provides individual, family, and group therapy to...

Staff Profile: Yudelki M. Firpo-Perretti, PhD

Yudelki Firpo-Perretti, PhD, is a staff psychologist who specializes in evidence-based treatments such as cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety, mood, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in children, adolescents, and young adults. Additionally, Dr. Firpo-Perretti is experienced in providing...

Staff Profile: Laura Murray, PhD

Laura Murray, PhD, completed her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan and her clinical psychology internship at Alpert Medical School at Brown University. Her research examines the role of reward processing in the development and persistence of externalizing psychopathology (e...

Staff Profile: Laura Payne, PhD

Laura Payne, PhD, is the director of the Clinical and Translational Pain Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital. Her research focuses on identifying neurobiological, behavioral, and psychological biomarkers related to pain, particularly menstrual pain in adolescents. Specifically, she is interested...

Staff Profile: Catherine Lopes, LICSW

Catherine Lopes, LICSW, has been interested in working with children and adolescents since the beginning of her training. Her clinical interests include trauma, mood disorders, self-injurious behaviors, anger management, and individual and family therapy. Ms. Lopes works at the McLean SouthEast...

Staff Profile: David Shalit, LICSW

David Shalit, LICSW, has been a clinical therapist/case manager at McLean SouthEast’s Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment Program since 2015. Mr. Shalit earned his MSW in 2008 and has been credentialed as an LICSW since 2011. He has dedicated his professional career to the human services field...

Staff Profile: Norman C. Gross, LICSW

Norman C. Gross, LICSW, is the clinical team manager for the McLean SouthEast Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program, as well as their partial hospital program. Mr. Gross received his master’s degree from Boston University. His postgraduate studies were conducted at The Boston...

Staff Profile: Gil G. Noam, EdD

Gil Noam, EdD, is the director of the Institute for the Study of Resilience in Youth at McLean Hospital and founder and director of PEAR Inc. (Partnerships in Education and Resilience). Dr. Noam has a strong interest in translating research and innovation to support resilience in youth in...