Every parent's ultimate goal is to raise a happy, healthy, and well-adjusted child. We share in your vision and are committed to providing customized strategies and comprehensive support to launch your child successfully into adulthood. D. is a nationally-recognized clinical psychologist and highly-lauded expert in Tourette's Disorder and common co-occurring conditions including OCD, Anxiety, and ADHD.
With over 15 years professional experience as a clinician, researcher, and professor at leading institutions including Johns Hopkins Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian, Dr. Specht has built a reputation for innovation and leadership in his field, and is personally driven to help children lead happy and healthy lives. Where expertise, collaboration, and compassion come together for your child today to help build independent, fully-functioning, and productive adults tomorrow.
Obsessions are unwanted and intrusive thoughts, images or impulses resulting in anxiety, catastrophic thinking and accompanying behaviors called compulsions.
With over 15 years professional experience as a clinician, researcher, and professor at leading institutions including Johns Hopkins Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian, Dr. Specht has built a reputation for innovation and leadership in his field, and is personally driven to help children lead happy and healthy lives. Where expertise, collaboration, and compassion come together for your child today to help build independent, fully-functioning, and productive adults tomorrow.
Obsessions are unwanted and intrusive thoughts, images or impulses resulting in anxiety, catastrophic thinking and accompanying behaviors called compulsions.
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From developing the Weill Cornell Medicine clinic focused on the treatment of anxiety in children, adolescents, and young adults to serving as the Principle Investigator for the Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) study, Dr. Specht's expertise and experience are unmatched.
Having personally evaluated and treated over 1,500 patients, Dr. Specht is a sought after speaker at notable medical institutions including Harvard University/Mass General and Yale University, as well as leading professional organizations such as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).
Having personally evaluated and treated over 1,500 patients, Dr. Specht is a sought after speaker at notable medical institutions including Harvard University/Mass General and Yale University, as well as leading professional organizations such as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).
Dr. Specht is focused on helping children today become independent, balanced and healthy adults tomorrow.
Your child is unique.
Helping them achieve happiness, joy, and balance as they move into adulthood is not a one-size-fits-all situation.
As such, your family deserves to work with a child psychologist that is thorough, compassionate, experienced, and above all else, committed to your son or daughter's mental health and well-being.
This means properly diagnosing and determining customized strategies to help your child.
Your child is unique.
Helping them achieve happiness, joy, and balance as they move into adulthood is not a one-size-fits-all situation.
As such, your family deserves to work with a child psychologist that is thorough, compassionate, experienced, and above all else, committed to your son or daughter's mental health and well-being.
This means properly diagnosing and determining customized strategies to help your child.
If anxiety goes untreated or is not properly addressed in childhood, issues are likely to persist into adulthood.
Having created the Weill Cornell Medicine clinic focused on the treatment of anxiety in young people, Dr. Specht is a child therapist and anxiety expert.
Through comprehensive treatment you will work together toward alleviating the anxiety your child experiences.
Separation anxiety or trouble separating/being separated from caregiver (at day care or when parents go out).
Social anxiety or experiencing enough anxiety in several social situations (public speaking, talking to authority figures, going on a date) that you avoid them or if confronted with them you try to escape the situation (leaving school or leaving a party).
Having created the Weill Cornell Medicine clinic focused on the treatment of anxiety in young people, Dr. Specht is a child therapist and anxiety expert.
Through comprehensive treatment you will work together toward alleviating the anxiety your child experiences.
Separation anxiety or trouble separating/being separated from caregiver (at day care or when parents go out).
Social anxiety or experiencing enough anxiety in several social situations (public speaking, talking to authority figures, going on a date) that you avoid them or if confronted with them you try to escape the situation (leaving school or leaving a party).
Despite the fact that many children actually exhibit multiple disorders, most research has been conducted on youth with one condition occurring largely in isolation to reduce confounds.
The field of psychology and psychiatry typically know how to treat a condition when it happens in isolation with CBT, meds, or a combination of the two.
While little research has been conducted and many unknowns remain, Dr. Specht has been a thought-leader and at the forefront of this issue and how to effectively treat patients presenting with several conditions.
The field of psychology and psychiatry typically know how to treat a condition when it happens in isolation with CBT, meds, or a combination of the two.
While little research has been conducted and many unknowns remain, Dr. Specht has been a thought-leader and at the forefront of this issue and how to effectively treat patients presenting with several conditions.
Maryland senior Senator, Ben Cardin, raises awareness of Tourette's Syndrome (TS) at the U.S. Senate, discussing Dr. Specht's work with Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention (CBIT), a safe, effective, non-medication treatment, at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
To meet the needs of new and existing patients and families we are offering virtual evaluations and appointments.
To meet the needs of new and existing patients and families we are offering virtual evaluations and appointments.
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