Meet
Dr. Gilly Kahn
Gilly Kahn, Ph.D.
Dr. Kahn is a licensed psychologist who works with children, teens, and adults to optimize executive functioning. Dr. Kahn helps clients struggling with social anxiety, depression, parenting stress, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and challenges related to social skills, school, and work. She specializes in improving emotion regulation, social skills, and organizational skills with autistic or ADHD individuals and also has extensive testing experience and can assess for ADHD.
Dr. Kahn’s approach to therapy is collaborative and family-oriented. Dr. Kahn uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), with an emphasis on the client’s goals. She is trained in Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) and in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). She speaks Hebrew and can work with Hebrew-speaking clients.
Dr. Kahn has co-published her research on teens’ communication patterns and anxiety in addition to blogging about ADHD for ADDitude Magazine. She is writing a book on ADHD in women and has appeared on various podcasts focusing on ADHD.
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My Mission
My goal is to work with you to help you hone in on your values-driven goals and then work toward accomplishing them one step at a time. I also work with you to help you change the way you relate to your thoughts and feelings so you are better equipped to use them as fuel to propel you forward personally, academically, and professionally. At the end of the day, we are a team, and your treatment plan will be specifically tailored to you.
History
After graduating with a B.A. in Psychology and Creative Writing from the University of Miami, she earned an M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Florida Atlantic University, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Nova Southeastern University. In 2014, she completed PCIT training at the UHealth Mailman Center for Child Development and went on to complete a predoctoral internship at Citrus Health Network in Hialeah, Florida, where she worked on a multidisciplinary team in outpatient therapy and primary care settings. Her postdoctoral residency was completed at Peachtree Pediatric Psychology in Sandy Springs. Other trainings Dr. Kahn has completed include the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) introductory training through the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s TRIAD and the Yale Child Study Center SPACE Training.
