Jennifer Hugg, PhD

Dr. Jennifer Hugg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Boston Child Study Center. She specializes in psychotherapy with adolescents, young adults, and their families using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT). She is also extensively trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). She delivers flexible, trauma-informed, and integrative evidence-based treatment. She is deeply committed to providing culturally-affirming and gender-affirming care, and aims to administer services facilitating empowerment for those with marginalized dimensions of identity.

Dr. Hugg completed her undergraduate studies at Amherst College, where she majored in Psychology and Anthropology. She also studied Experimental Psychology and Human Sciences as a visiting student at St. Catherine’s College at Oxford University. Dr. Hugg worked as milieu staff and a skills coach and trainer with the McLean Hospital 3East DBT continuum before pursuing graduate training. She received her M.A. and then her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maine, where she focused on the Clinical Child Psychology emphasis. She completed her doctoral internship with the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System at the Worcester Community-Based Outpatient Clinic. Dr. Hugg’s doctoral research and dissertation focused on dyadic emotional intimacy, RO DBT skills training, and treatment dissemination with overcontrolled college-aged adolescents.