Jami Furr, Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Senior Psychologist in the Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, and the Selective Mutism Program at the Center for Children and Families at Florida International University (FIU). She is the President of the Selective Mutism Association, a nonprofit organization promoting awareness and resources regarding selective mutism to professionals, educators, and families. Dr. Furr has extensive expertise in cognitive-behavioral treatments of childhood anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders, with a focus on preschool mental health and intensive group treatment programs for children with selective mutism – directing the first randomized clinical trial of the intensive group behavioral treatment for selective mutism in young children. She has supervised doctoral, masters, and undergraduate students and provided extensive trainings in anxiety disorders in youth to these students, school psychologists, other educators, and the surrounding communities. Dr. Furr received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Temple University. Dr. Furr completed her clinical psychology internship at the NYU-Bellevue Clinical Psychology Internship Program and the NYU Child Study Center, after which she completed an NIH-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Child Psychiatry at the NYU Child Study Center. Prior to FIU, she served as the Clinical Director of the Child Fear and Anxiety Program at Boston University’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders.
