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Abigail Stark, PhD

Abigail’s Expertise: Child & Adolescent|Anxiety|OCD

About Abigail

Abigail Stark, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who provides evidence-based care for children and adolescents with a focus on chronic emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and OCD. She has extensive expertise in proven treatment models, including exposure and response prevention therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.

Dr. Stark completed her undergraduate degree at Williams College, her PhD in clinical psychology at Suffolk University, her doctoral internship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and her post-doctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

She previously worked at McLean Hospital’s Anxiety Mastery Program, an intensive exposure-based outpatient program for anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders. There she led an exposure-DBT track for teens with co-occurring borderline personality disorder, self-harm, and/or suicidality and anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder.

Additional past experiences include consultation work within the school system through the McLean School Consultation Service, dialectical behavior therapy work at McLean’s 3East Outpatient Program, and extensive anxiety and OCD work across a range of levels of care.