Lisa Coyne, PhD

Lisa Coyne, PhD, is the Founder of the McLean OCD Institute for Children and Adolescents at McLean Hospital, and is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She also founded and directs the New England Center for OCD and Anxiety (NECOA), and is on the faculty of the Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) of the International OCD Foundation. She is also a licensed psychologist and an internationally recognized peer-reviewed ACT trainer. She has written extensively about applying acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with children and adolescents. Her titles include The Joy of Parenting, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Adolescent Anxiety and OCD: A Family-Based Approach, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician’s Guide to Supporting Parents, and Stuff That’s Loud: A Teen’s Guide to Unspiralling When OCD Gets Noisy.

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