Psychologists
Lorraine Ball
Ph.D. (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 2000), is a licensed and certified school psychologist, and the Director of Psychotherapy Services. She has a background in developmental theory and research, and early childhood education. She has received training in assessment, and individual, family, and group psychotherapies at the Child Study Institute, Children's Seashore House, Southern Home Services Foster Care Division, and Chester County Intermediate Unit. She also worked in a local school district for five years as a school psychologist. At CSI, she provides individual and family therapy, conducts psychoeducational assessments, and coordinates and leads social skills groups for children and young adolescents. Special areas of interest include ADHD, anxiety, social deficits, and school-based interventions for children and adolescents with learning disabilities and/or social/emotional difficulties. Dr. Ball teaches in the Psychology Department at Bryn Mawr College.
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.
Eugenie W. Flaherty
Ph.D. (Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1973), is a licensed and school-certified psychologist who has been with CSI since 1993. She served as Director of Assessment Services from 2000 - 2007. Dr. Flaherty specializes in comprehensive psychoeducational assessments for students aged five through the college years who are coping with learning and/or social/emotional issues. Her special areas of interest and expertise include reading disabilities, mathematics disabilities, learning disabilities across academic domains, Asperger's Syndrome, nonverbal learning disabilities, ADHD, and the integration of cognitive functioning with emotional functioning. Dr. Flaherty serves on the executive board of the Pennsylvania Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (PBDIA), and is the editor of the PBDIA newsletter, Focus.
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, is the Co-director of Assessment Services at Child Study Institute. Dr. Heindel has received clinical training in assessment and 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. She has served as a school psychology consultant in inner-city and suburban independent school settings. 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 teaches Introduction to Assessment in the Bryn Mawr College Clinical Developmental Doctoral Psychology Program.
Julie James
Ph.D., is a certified psychologist.
Kristin Kopple
M.A., is a certified psychologist.
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 Leach
Ph.D.
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. Together with Dr. Ball, Dr. Leren co-leads social skills groups for children and young adolescents. Areas of interest include child, adolescent, and family treatment of anxiety and depression.
Jessica Spatz McNeary
Ph.D. (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 2005), a certified school psychologist, is Coordinator of School Admissions at Child Study Institute. Dr. McNeary received training in assessment, therapy, and school consultation at Bryn Mawr, the Marple Newtown School District, and St. Gabriel's System. She completed her predoctoral internship at Devereux. In addition, she has conducted behavioral therapy as part of a team for children with pervasive developmental disorders. Her interests include social, emotional and cognitive development of preschoolers, the relationship between learning disorders and social/emotional functioning, and psychotherapy for children and adolescents diagnosed with externalizing disorders.
Joan Manhardt
Ph.D. (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1999) is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist. She provides child and family therapy at Child Study Institute, specializing in children and teens' anxiety and school-related issues. In addition to her psychology training, she holds an M.A. in early childhood and elementary education from the Bank Street College of Education and a B. A. in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University . Prior to joining our staff, Dr. Manhardt was employed as school psychologist in the early intervention system in Philadelphia , where she provided assessment services and classroom-based consultation for young children in Head Start centers. Dr. Manhardt teaches Introduction to Psychological Assessment in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Bryn Mawr College.
Suzanne Nangle
M.A., is a certified psychologist.
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.
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.
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 20 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 special education issues, mediation of school-parent disagreements, participation in IEP meetings, and appearances at Due Process Hearings.
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 is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College. 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, depression, and behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents.
Kara Schmidt
Ph.D. (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston, 2003), a licensed and school-certified psychologist with advanced training in neuropsychology, is Co-Director of Assessment Services at CSI. She received her clinical training at New York University School of Medicine/North Shore University Hospital and the Neurology Department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She provides comprehensive neuropsychological assessment and intervention for children struggling with neurodevelopmental disorders, emotional/behavioral problems and/or neurological conditions. Her practice includes individuals with ADHD, giftedness, developmental language disorders, reading disorders and other learning disabilities, brain injuries, epilepsy, depression and anxiety, oppositional and anger difficulties, autism and Asperger's syndrome, genetically-based developmental disabilities and other problems that may affect learning or behavior.
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.
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.