Psychology Training Committee

The following is a list of the Psychology Training Committee for the MGH Psychology Internship and Specialty Training Program in Clinical Psychology:

Sheila M. O’Keefe, Ed.D.
Sheila O'Keefe received her doctorate in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University. She completed her internship and two post-doctoral fellowships in the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. O'Keefe is the Director of Internship and Psychology Training at MGH and is responsible for coordinating training efforts across the five training tracks. Her interests include ethics, boundaries in psychotherapy, and end -of-life issues. Dr. O'Keefe served as past Chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Psychology.

Dennis Norman, Ed.D, ABPP
Dennis Norman received his doctorate in Human Development, Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University in 1981 and also has an M.A. in Child Development from Tufts University, Child Study Department. His internship and post-doctoral training was received within the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently Associate Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Norman has been the Chief of Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1989. His previous positions within the Department of Psychiatry at MGH include: Co-Director of Research, Eating Disorders Unit; Director of the Child Clinical Psychology Training Program; Chief Psychologist, Child Psychiatry Service and Eating Disorders Unit; Coordinator, Child Psychology Track and Director of Training, Internship Program in Clinical Psychology. His research interests include: personality structure and functioning, psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness and trauma, and intellectual and neuropsychological correlates of ADHD. More recently Dr. Norman has been consulting with the Kmihqitahasultipon Program, Indian Township Health Center, Indian Township, Maine for the Passamaquoddy Tribe and is the faculty chair for the Indian Health Initiative for the Harvard University Native American Program. This work has enabled him to return to a long-term interest in healing and the difficult role of providing meaningful psychological consultation in differing cultural contexts. Dr. Norman is Past Chair of the Board of Registration for Psychology, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Please also see web page Psychiatry Leadership Team


Mark A. Blais, Psy.D.
Mark Blais received his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in psychological assessment from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. He completed his internship and postdoctoral training in adult clinical psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently Associate Chief of Psychology and Director of the Psychological Evaluation and Research Laboratory, a comprehensive psychological assessment and research program. He also serves as the Director of the Adult Track of the MGH Clinical Psychology Internship. His research interests and publications broadly cover the areas of personality, psychological assessment, measurement and test development and psychotherapy outcome. His psychotherapy interests are in the short-term treatment of depression and the treatment of men. He is Associate Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Blais is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment.
Please also see web page Psychology Assessment Center Staff



Ellen Braaten, Ph.D.
Ellen Braaten received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University and completed her internship and a post-doctoral fellowship in Child/Adult Psychology at MGH.  Her research interests include mood disorders and emotional regulation in children with ADHD and the neuropsychological effects of pediatric multiple sclerosis.  Dr. Braaten is the Director of the Child Internship Track and Director of the Learning and Emotional Assessment Program (LEAP) where her clinical work focuses on assessing children with learning disabilities, ADHD and developmental disorders.
Please also see web page Learning & Education Assessment Program (L.E.A.P.)

Aude Henin, Ph.D.
Aude Henin received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Temple University. She completed her internship and post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She oversees the Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Program in the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit. Her research interests focus on the development and evaluation of CBT treatments for children, adolescents, and young adults with severe mood, anxiety, and autism spectrum disorders. She also conducts research examing familial and neurobiologic risk factors for the development of mood and anxiety disorders.


Michelle Jacobo, Ph.D.
Michelle Jacobo received her Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts-Amherst and completed her internship and a post-doctoral fellowship in Adult Psychology at MGH. She is the Director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program and works on the Inpatient Psychiatric Service as well. She maintains a private practice in the Boston area.


Catherine Leveroni, Ph.D.
Catherine Leveroni received her Ph.D. from Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School where she also received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. She completed her internship at the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium and a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Leveroni serves as Director of the Neuropsychology Internship Track. Her research interests include functional neuroimaging and memory, epilepsy, cognitive behavioral interventions for individuals with cognitive disorders.
Please also see web page Psychology Assessment Center Staff .

Bruce Masek, Ph.D., ABPP
Bruce Masek received his Ph.D. from Auburn University and trained in Behavioral Medicine at John Hopkins Medical Center. He is Director of the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Service and the Director of Pediatric Behavior Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School. His research and training interests include health psychology, management of stress, pain and incontinence.
Please also see the web pages of Behavioral Medicine, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service Staff .

Steven Safren, Ph.D., ABPP
Steven Safren received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from University at Albany in 1998. He completed his internship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the CBT track, and is currently the Director of the Behavioral Medicine Program and Director of the Behavioral Medicine internship training track. Dr. Safren’s research interest is to extend empirically-supported CBT treatments to new, diverse areas. This includes using the framework of CBT to develop HIV prevention interventions and interventions for psychiatric and psychological aspects of HIV (e.g. depression, antiretroviral medication adherence). In this context, Dr. Safren collaborates both with the Infectious Disease Unit at MGH and with Fenway Community Health, a local community health center, in developing local, national, and international HIV prevention studies. Additionally, Dr. Safren conducts research in the area of CBT for Adult A.D.D., and in the area of anxiety disorders.
Please also see the web pages CBT Faculty,and Behavioral Medicine Faculty, and Behavioral Medicine

Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D.
Dr. Wilhelm is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She is Director of the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Program, the Director of the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Clinic and the Director of the CBT internship training track at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Wilhelm is recognized as a leading researcher in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Tic Disorders, and she has published three books as well as numerous articles and chapters on the cognitive functioning, prevalence, and treatment outcome of these disorders. Currently, Dr. Wilhelm is the principal investigator of three NIMH-funded clinical research studies. Dr. Wilhelm serves on several editorial and advisory boards and she is often invited to speak around the country and internationally.
Please see also web pages BDD Staff, CBT Faculty ,OCD Faculty

Eva Schoenfeld, Ph.D.
Eva Schoenfeld received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1979 after completing internships at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston and the Boston VA in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She is currently an Intructor in Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schoenfeld is a member of the Training Committee for the Psychology Internship.. She has participated in research on the childhood antecedents of psychosis, the development of personality disorder from a family perspective, television violence, children’s aggression, and the development f the concept of conservation in children. Dr. Schoenfeld’s primary clinical interests are in outpatient psychotherapy with individuals and couples and the supervision of trainees in the training setting. Presently, Dr. Schoenfeld specializes in psychotherapy with women with a focus on problems in infertility, trauma and parenting.

Ward Cromer, Ph.D.
Ward Cromer received his Ph.D. from Clark University and has been chief Psychologist at MGH Charlestown for over two decades. Dr. Cromer has served as Chair of the board of Registration for Psychology and after recently retiring from MGH still serves as a senior consultant to the Training Committee.

Sherry Brooks, Administrative Coordinator

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