Amy Farabaugh, Ph.D.

Amy Farabaugh, Ph.D., is an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and a staff psychologist in the Depression Clinical and Research Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Farabaugh earned her PhD in counseling psychology at Northeastern University in 1996, after completing her Masters in community counseling in 1994 at Loyola University-Chicago. During her doctoral training years, she became the first non-postdoctoral extern to train on the inpatient unit (Blake 11) of Massachusetts General Hospital, where she assisted in comprehensive treatment of psychiatric patients and provided cognitive and personality assessments. She also worked in the MGH Acute Psychiatry Services (APS), where she diagnosed, triaged, and formulated disposition decisions including inpatient hospitalization for patients presenting to the emergency room. Currently, Dr. Farabaugh provides direct clinical care for approximately 25 patients. She runs CBT and DBT groups and treats couples, as well as continuing to serve as a therapist and as a clinical research coordinator for STAR*D.