Emilie Lerner, Ph.D.

Emilie Lerner is a licensed clinical psychologist. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus and her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Smith College. She completed her doctoral internship at the Advocate Family Care Network in Oak Lawn, Illinois, where she worked with children and adolescents involved in foster care.

Dr. Lerner has a general practice that includes individual psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and adults, and parent-child psychotherapy with younger children and their caregivers. Broadly, Dr. Lerner has longstanding interests in attachment and development. She is interested in helping children and adolescents with adjustment to changes within their family, including parental divorce and changes in family composition, and with navigating life transitions, including family moves, changes in school, the transition from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood. Dr. Lerner also has a strong interest in working with young adults on adjustment to college and graduate school and relationships. Dr. Lerner sees clients with a range of presenting concerns including depression, anxiety, ADHD, adjustment to stress, loss and grief, school-related difficulties, and relationship difficulties.

 Dr. Lerner was originally trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy and she draws upon psychodynamic models and family systems models in her approach to psychotherapy. Working with the client’s goals, and understanding people in the context of their lives and developmental histories, are important to her. Dr. Lerner participates with BCBS PPO and BCBS traditional insurance and can submit to other insurances as an out-of-network provider.