Alaina Baker, PsyD
Dr. Alaina Baker is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Youth & Family Gender Identity Program at the Boston Child Study Center. She provides direct patient care in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for adolescents and young adults with PTSD, complex trauma, co-occurring suicidal behaviors and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). She provides gender-affirming care to LGBTQIA+ […]
Eric Benson, PhD, BCBA
Dr. Eric R. Benson is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Head of Clinical Outreach at the Boston Child Study Center. Prior to coming to the Boston Child Study Center, Dr. Benson had worked in a variety of school and hospital settings. These positions have included working as the Staff Psychologist for the McLean/Franciscan Child […]
Ariel Berman, PhD
Ariel Berman is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at the Boston Child Study Center offering evidence-based treatment to children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Ariel provides dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for children and adolescents facing emotional dysregulation and a range of mood and behavior difficulties, Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT), and evidence-based group […]
Bridget Bertoldi, PhD
Dr. Bridget Bertoldi is a licensed clinical psychologist at the Boston Child Study Center. She specializes in treating children, adolescents, and adults with complex diagnostic presentations, including mood, anxiety, personality, trauma, substance use, disruptive behavior, and psychotic disorders. Dr. Bertoldi also has experience in the treatment and assessment of high-risk behaviors, including suicidal ideation and […]
Cayley Bliss, MA
Cayley Bliss (she / her) is a second-year clinical extern at the Boston Child Study Center, where she provides supervised direct patient care to children, adolescents, and their families, specializing Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), after previously receiving advanced training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and neuropsychological testing at BCSC. She holds a Bachelor of […]
Danna Bismar, PhD
Danna Bismar, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist at the Boston Child Study Center. Dr. Bismar earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Biology at Southern Methodist University and her Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at the University of North Texas. She completed her pre-doctoral internship in the Child/Adolescent Track at Rutgers […]
Jill Bloom, PhD
Dr. Jill Bloom is a licensed clinical psychologist and Senior Expert in DBT Family Therapy at the Boston Child Study Center. She has extensive experience in providing evidence-based treatment to adolescents, young adults, parents, and families. She specializes in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, PTSD, and emotion dysregulation using cognitive behavior therapy and dialectical behavior […]
Sara Boodai, MA
Sara Boodai, M.A., is a clinical extern at the Boston Child Study Center, where she provides supervised direct patient care through the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Trauma/PTSD track. She is a fifth-year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and holds master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of […]
Dana Borkum, PsyD
Dr. Dana Borkum, Psy.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at the Boston Child Study Center where she provides individual, family, and group therapy services for children and adolescents with difficulties in emotion regulation, mood and anxiety disorders, complex trauma, and co-occurring suicidal behaviors and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Dr. Borkum earned her B.S. in Psychology from […]
Pamela Buck, PhD
Dr. Pam Buck is a licensed clinical psychologist at the Boston Child Study Center, where she provides evidence-based treatments to young adults and families with mood and anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, trauma-related disorders, substance use and eating disorders, attention-related difficulties and personality disorders. She provides CBT, DBT, and evidence-based treatments for PTSD: prolonged exposure (PE), […]