Laura Phillips

Dr. Phillips is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialty training and board certification in pediatric neuropsychology through the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology (ABPdN). She specializes in providing comprehensive neuropsychological and educational evaluations for children, adolescents, and young adults with neurodevelopmental disorders and their psychiatric co-morbidities. Her expertise spans a wide range of conditions that affect learning, behavior, and social-emotional functioning, including ADHD, learning disorders, language disorders, and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Phillips is also adept in the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety and mood disorders. Dr. Phillips approaches her psychological evaluations with clinical intuition, sensitivity, compassion, and careful attention to detail, considering the complex relationship between a child's learning style, emotional well-being, and their educational setting. Dr. Phillips also provides caregiver and professional workshops that cover a variety of topics, including reading development, instruction, and remediation; neurodevelopment; learning disorders; and the social-emotional wellbeing of children and adolescents. Dr. Phillips received her undergraduate degree in psychology, magna cum laude, with a certificate in Human Development, from Duke University. She earned her doctorate in Combined School and Clinical Child Psychology, with a minor in Neuropsychology, from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University. She completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Neuropsychology at Columbia University. Dr. Phillips is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), and the New York State Association of Neuropsychology (NYSAN), and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology (AAPdN). She serves on the Board of Directors of NYSAN and AAPdN.