Psychologists
Lorraine Ball
Ph.D. (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 2000), Director of Psychotherapy Services, is a licensed and certified school psychologist who has been with CSI since 1995. Dr. Ball has an extensive background in early childhood education, developmental theory and research, cognitive-behavior therapy, and school psychology. She previously worked as a full time school psychologist for 6 years, both at the district and intermediate unit levels. Dr. Ball's areas of interest and expertise include individual therapy for children with ADHD, anxiety disorders, learning disabilities, and social difficulties/deficits. She works closely with parents and school systems to enhance the effectiveness of interventions. Dr. Ball also conducts comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations for children and adolescents, and leads social skills groups for children with social difficulties. Dr. Ball serves as a committee chair on the School Psychology Board of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.
Mara Erin Dixon
Ph.D. (Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College, 2007), a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist, has clinical training in assessment and in individual, family, and group therapies in school, college, and outpatient clinic settings, including Villanova University and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She has worked as a school psychologist in the Rose Tree Media and Upper Darby School Districts. Dr. Dixon has specific interest and experience treating and assessing young children (ages three through ten). Other professional areas of interest include anxiety, depression, divorce/ separation, social skill development, school consultation, and family therapy.
Timothy Edge
Ph.D. (Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College, 2005), a licensed and certified school psychologist, has received clinical training in assessment and in individual, family, and group psychotherapies at the Child Study Institute, Marple Newtown School District, St. Gabriel's System, the Princeton University Counseling Center, and the University of Pennsylvania Counseling Center. He has served as a school psychology consultant in a suburban independent school. He has been employed as a school psychologist in various Main Line public schools since 2002. His interests are in learning and emotional disorders, student development, attachment, and family systems.
Mary Eno
Ph.D. (B. A., University of Nebraska, 1972; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1983) is a licensed psychologist. She formerly taught at the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania and worked at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. She consults frequently with public and private school systems and is the consulting psychologist at Abington Friends School. Dr. Eno's interests are in marital and family therapy, families of divorce, sibling relationships, school consultation, and family-school relationships.
Ann F. Gluck
Psy.D., (Psy.D., Hahnemann University, 1988) is a licensed and school-certified psychologist who has been affiliated with CSI since 1992. Dr. Gluck does psychological and educational testing, school consultation, and therapy both at CSI and in private practice. Her interests span the range of learning, social-emotional, language, and attentional issues from preschool through adulthood.
Staci Heindel
Ph.D., (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 2003), a licensed and Pennsylvania certified school psychologist, formerly served as the Co-director of Assessment Services (2008 – 2010) and the Coordinator of School Admission Services (2004 – 2008) at Child Study Institute. At present, Dr. Heindel's primary focus of practice is in the identification and remediation of learning, behavioral, and emotional differences in children, adolescents, and young adults. Dr. Heindel has received clinical training in psychoeducational and psychological assessment, as well as individual, family, and group psychotherapies through work at Child Study Institute, Elwyn Nonpublic School Program, St Gabriel's System, and Villanova University Counseling Center. She completed her predoctoral clinical internship at The Reading Hospital and Medical Center and her postdoctoral training at Child Study Institute. She has served as a school psychology consultant in inner-city and suburban independent school settings. Dr. Heindel taught the year-long Introduction to Assessment course in the Bryn Mawr College Clinical Developmental Doctoral Psychology Program (2009 – 2011).
Roberta Krauss
Ph.D. (Ph.D., 1996, M.Ed., 1991, Temple University) is a licensed and school-certified psychologist. Prior to joining the staff at CSI, Dr. Krauss worked in the public school system (Delaware County Intermediate Unit) with children from preschool through high school providing psychological evaluations, designing special education programming, consulting with parents and teachers, and providing crisis intervention services. She was Adjunct Professor in Special Education at St. Joseph's University where she taught courses in educational assessment and instructional strategies. Dr. Krauss specializes in early childhood development. She has provided developmental assessments and designed intervention programming for infants, toddlers and preschoolers in local early Intervention programs, Head Start centers, and hospital settings.
Jennifer Mirak Leach
Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College, 1999) is a certified school psychologist and Director of CSI’s Student Support Services. Dr. Leach has received training is assessment and individual psychotherapy with children and adolescents at the Children's Seashore House, Northwestern Human Services in Philadelphia, and the Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU). She also worked for the CCIU for six years at the Elementary School level and in Early Intervention. At CSI, she provides executive skill coaching to high school and college students. Her special areas of interest include reading disabilities, ADHD, anxiety and executive functioning.
Kristin Leren
Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College, 2008), is a certified school psychologist. Clinical training has included assessment, parent consultation, and individual, family, and group therapy at Child Study Institute, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Devereux Foundation, St. Gabriel’s System, JFK Community Center, and Upper Darby School District. Dr. Leren is currently supporting the implementation of the Response to Intervention Model (RtI) as the school psychologist in one of seven PA selected pilot schools in collaboration with PATTAN and Lehigh University. Areas of interest include child, adolescent, and family treatment of anxiety and depression.
Andrew McMeekin
Psy.D., MHR (Widener University, Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology and School of Business Administration, 2002), a PA-licensed clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist who treats children and adolescents. Dr. McMeekin specializes in behavioral early intervention, the treatment of ADHD, anxiety and depression, as well as childhood bereavement. He has provided student support services to several area private schools throughout his career and continues to work with local schools and businesses. Dr. McMeekin also conducts parenting workshops and provides executive functioning coaching for high school and college students. His research interests include resilience, performance enhancement, and positive psychology.
Jessica Spatz McNeary
Ph.D. (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 2005), a certified school psychologist, is Coordinator of School Admissions at Child Study Institute. She has been with Child Study Institute since 1999. Dr. Spatz-McNeary received training in assessment, therapy, and school consultation at Child Study Institute, the Marple Newtown School District, and St. Gabriel's System, and she completed her predoctoral internship at Devereux. Dr. Spatz-McNeary specializes in the identification and remediation of learning disabilities and behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents, as well as in school admissions evaluation and consultation.
Suzanne Mischell Nangle
M.A. (M.S. Old Dominion University, 2001, M.A. Bryn Mawr College, 2006) is a certified school psychologist. She has experience using applied behavior analysis techniques with children and adolescents diagnosed with autism. She has worked in both home and school settings, in-patient and residential settings, and community-based mental health setting.An advanced doctoral student in Bryn Mawr College’s Clinical Developmental PhD Psychology Program, Ms. Nangle does psychological testing and therapy at CSI.
Madelaine Nathanson
Ph.D. (Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1976) is a licensed psychologist. She was formerly a member of the psychology training faculty of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center and a liaison psychologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Currently, she is a clinical supervisor in the Clinical Developmental Psychology Program at Bryn Mawr College. Her areas of particular interest include individual, marital and family therapy, adolescent development, treatment of depression and anxiety, chronic illness, and supervision and professional development of clinicians in training.
Amy M. Neeren
(Ph.D., Temple University, 2006) is a licensed clinical psychologist who divides her time between clinical practice, teaching, research, and consultation. She received her graduate school training at Temple University, post-doctoral training at Drexel University’s Obesity and Eating Disorder Program, and currently is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Haverford College. Dr. Neeren’s areas of interests include providing cognitive-behavioral therapy to adolescents and adults experiencing eating disorder symptoms, weight management difficulties, and body image issues. She has authored and co-authored several articles focused on the association of psychosocial and cognitive risk factors associated with the onset, course, and outcome of mood and eating disorders.
Dana Odell
(PsyD, Widener University, 2011) is a certified school psychologist with clinical training and experience in psychoeducational and personality assessment, school and parent consultation, and therapy with children and families. Dr. Odell is currently a member of the Tuttleman Counseling Center at Temple University and has also been affiliated with The Renfrew Center, The Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment, and the Philadelphia School District. Dr. Odell’s areas of interest include comprehensive assessment, curriculum enrichment, eating disorders, work with children, adolescents and families.
Leslie A. Rescorla
Ph.D. (Ph.D., Yale University, 1976), Director of CSI, is a licensed and school certified psychologist. She received her clinical training at the Yale Child Study Center, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center. Her clinical areas of interest are psychological assessment of learning disabilities; assessment and treatment of young children with language delay and pervasive developmental disorder; individual and family therapy for youngsters with attention deficit disorder, anxiety problems, and oppositional defiant disorder; and psychoeducational intervention with adolescent under-achievers. Her research interests include empirically based assessment of children and adults, language delay, and academic achievement trajectories. She teaches Developmental Psychopathology as well as Consultation and Practice Issues in School Psychology in Bryn Mawr's doctoral program.
Mary M. Riggio
Ph.D. (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 2009) is a
certified school psychologist. Dr. Riggio received clinical training in
assessment and individual, family, and group psychotherapies at the
Child Study Institute, Upper Darby School District, Warwick House, the
University of Pennsylvania Counseling Center, and John F. Kennedy
Community Center. She completed her predoctoral clinical internship at
The Reading Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Riggio's primary areas of
interest include psychoeducational evaluations of children and young
adults as well as treatment of anxiety, depression, social deficits, and
behavioral difficulties. Dr. Riggio co-leads social skills groups for
children and young adolescents. She has taught in the Counseling
Psychology Department at Eastern University.
Carol Roberts
Ph.D., ( Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1981; MA, Bryn Mawr College, 1996) is a licensed and school-certified psychologist. Prior to taking a full-time appointment at Bryn Mawr, she spent 23 years as a psychologist in the Upper Darby School District. In addition to doing assessment and school consultation, she teaches Legal, Ethical, and Professional Issues in School Psychology in Bryn Mawr's doctoral program in psychology. Her professional specialties include psychological evaluation of school-age children, use of the Rorschach, parent consultation on Section 504 and special education issues, mediation of school-parent disagreements, and participation in IEP meetings..
Michele Robins
Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College, 1992) is a licensed and school certified psychologist. She is a clinical/developmental and neuropsychologist with expertise in the area of assessment of children, adolescents and adults with learning and emotional problems including autism spectrum disorders. As a clinical associate at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and a former director of psychology training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Michele consults and lectures widely on the treatment of disorders throughout the lifespan. As a fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy as well as family therapist, Michele uniquely integrates cognitive behavior therapy, family therapy and school consultation to create individualized treatment for individuals with learning and mood disorders.
Anne R. Robbins
Psy.D. (Psy.D., Widener University, 1990) is a certified school psychologist in Pennsylvania and is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania and Delaware with advanced training in pediatric neuropsychology. Prior to joining the CSI staff in 1999, Dr. Robbins was a pediatric neuropsychologist on the medical staff at the A.I. duPont Hospital for Children. At CSI, Dr. Robbins provides neuropsychological assessment and intervention services to children with neurologically-based cognitive, learning, and behavioral difficulties. Consultation services are also available to families and schools in their efforts to work with children with complex learning and behavior disorders. Areas of particular interest and expertise include the full range of autism spectrum disorders, attentional disorders, traumatic brain injury, seizure disorders, complications associated with premature birth, complex learning disorders, and complex language disorders.
Alexis Bennett Rosenfeld
Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College, 2004) is a licensed and certified school psychologist. In addition to working at CSI, she has worked as an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College, and as a psychotherapist at the Villanova University Counseling Center. Dr. Rosenfeld completed a clinical internship at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, where she received training in individual, family, and group therapies. Dr. Rosenfeld has also received training in therapy and psychoeducational assessment at CSI, the Renfrew Center in Bryn Mawr, Northwestern Human Services in Philadelphia, and the Marple-Newtown School District. Dr. Rosenfeld's main areas of interest include assessment and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults.
Marc Schulz
Ph.D. (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1994) is a clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor in Bryn Mawr's Psychology Department. Dr. Schulz teaches Introduction to Psychotherapy, Multivariate Statistics, and Developmental Psychopathology in Bryn Mawr's doctoral program. His interests are in emotion and coping processes, family relationships and functioning, and developmental psychopathology, the consequences of emotion regulation and expression for individual and relationship well-being, and the effects of marital conflict on children. Dr. Schulz is a licensed psychologist who received his clinical training at Children's Hospital, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and Harvard Medical School in Boston. At CSI, he provides therapy for children and families.
Linda W. Taylor
Ph.D., (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1989), is a licensed and school certified psychologist and is the Director of Academic and Career Counseling at CSI. Dr. Taylor's interests and expertise include assessment and counseling of adolescents, adults, and children and their families, who have learning, social, emotional, and attentional difficulties requiring academic and/or workplace accommodations. She also provides assessment and consultation for adolescents and adults who require accommodations for state and national professional licensing exams. Dr. Taylor provides school and college guidance and life planning and career counseling for adolescents and adults of all ages, and for international students and their families. In addition to experience providing therapy, assessment, and consultation in public and private schools and residential placements, she has experience as a college teacher, administrator, counselor, and student advisor, and as a trainer and supervisor of school psychologists and school counselors.
Breanna Winder
M.A. (M.A. Boston University, 2003; M.A. Bryn Mawr College, 2008) is a certified school psychologist and an advanced doctoral student in the Clinical Developmental Psychology program at Bryn Mawr College. She has received clinical training in psychological assessment, school consultation, and individual and family therapy at Child Study Institute, Rose Tree Media School District, Haverford School District, The Devereux Foundation, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania. Her clinical areas of interest include the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and anxiety and related disorders; and family therapy for children with acute and chronic illnesses. An Autism Speaks Fellow from 2008-2010, Breanna is clinically and research certified in the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI-R) – the gold standard instruments for assessing and diagnosing ASD.
Elna Yadin
Ph.D. (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1979) is a licensed psychologist and a neuroscientist. She received her training at Bryn Mawr College, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Children's Seashore House in Philadelphia. Her areas of interest include individual therapy in adults and children with anxiety disorders (e.g., obsessive-compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, social phobia, panic disorder, and specific phobias), and assessment of attentional and learning difficulties in adults and children. Dr. Yadin is fluent in English and Hebrew.
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