Mathena Abramson, M.A.

Mathena Abramson, M.A., is a clinical extern at the Boston Child Study Center where she provides supervised direct patient care in neuropsychology services.

Mathena earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Statistical and Data Sciences from Smith College in Northampton, MA. She went on to work as a Research Coordinator II in the Women’s Hormones and Aging Research Program in the Psychiatry Department of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MA. Mathena is currently a fourth year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Boston University. Mathena’s research broadly focuses on family influences on psychological and neuropsychological outcomes in marginalized communities across the lifespan. She is currently interested in investigating social determinants of cognitive health in older Black and Latino adults.

Mathena has received training at Boston University’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD). At CARD, Mathena conducted intakes; provided outpatient therapy to children, adolescents, emerging adults, and established adults with mood and anxiety disorders; engaged parents and caregivers in coaching sessions; and provided neuropsychological services to adolescents. She received rigorous training in the delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Selective Mutism, and experience employing the Unified Protocol for adults and adolescents in sessions.

More recently, Mathena has completed her externship at the 3 East Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Program at McLean Hospital where she worked in the outpatient and partial hospitalization units. At 3 East, Mathena co-lead weekly and daily DBT groups with adolescents and multi-family groups, offered skills tutoring and coaching to adolescents and caregivers, and skills coaching to adolescents in crisis.