Colleen Harker, Ph.D.

Dr. Harker is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in working with caregivers of children with anxiety, OCD, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and disruptive behavior. Dr. Harker believes that delivering treatment via caregivers allows for the most efficient and sustainable progress for children. Treatment goals are to shape the environment to best support children’s needs, including coaching parents how to promote resilience, respond to ‘big emotions,’ set effective limits, and improve the parent-child relationship. Dr. Harker aims to have a collaborative relationship with the caregivers who she works with, and help merge principles from evidence-based interventions with the unique needs of the child and family. Learn more about parent coaching here!

Dr. Harker obtained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She completed her clinical internship at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center and her post-doctoral fellowship at the Child and Adolescent OCD, Tic, Trich, and Anxiety Group (COTTAGe) and the Penn Center for Mental Health (PCMH) at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Harker has particular expertise in working with individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She is a certified provider of the PEERS social skills program and is also trained to deliver the evidence-based SPACE intervention, a parent-based anxiety treatment program, developed at Yale University.

Dr. Harker enjoys consulting with schools and medical teams about the best ways to integrate evidence-based behavioral strategies into their practice.