About rebecca

Rebecca Lesser Allen, PsyD

Co-Director of Assessment, Clinical Neuropsychologist & Psychotherapist

Dr. Rebecca Lesser Allen is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist and psychotherapist who works with individuals across the lifespan who are looking to better understand the ways they think, feel, and learn. Her goal as a provider is to help individuals move deeper into their own self-understanding and use that knowledge to enrich their lives. She provides individual psychotherapy for adolescents and adults, as well as parenting coaching/consultation. She also runs virtual “hold the mother” support groups.

She is passionate about working with individuals navigating life transitions, parenthood, the perinatal and postpartum period, marital and relationship conflict, complex familial dynamics, identity confusion, and career stress. She works from a trauma-informed and highly relational perspective and has experience treating anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma, psychosis, emotion dysregulation, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and borderline personality traits. She loves working with parents to help them cultivate authentic, resilient relationships with their children of all ages, from infancy through adulthood.

Her work is informed by the study of attachment, psychodynamic theory, DBT, humanistic psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology. She utilizes an integrated approach that empowers clients to better understand the many factors (both internal and external) that contribute to their distress, build on personal strengths to better their own lives and those of others, overcome and grow from traumatic experiences, and foster self-compassion.

Dr. Lesser Allen earned her undergraduate degree in American Studies and film at Barnard College of Columbia University. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at William James College. After graduate school, she completed an internship in clinical neuropsychology at the Yale School of Medicine. Her two-year postdoctoral fellowship training was in clinical neuropsychology and rehabilitation medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. She has completed training in the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders through Postpartum Support International.

PSY 30656