Supporting Your Child with Anxiety and/or OCD - Q&A

Mona Potter, MD is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist and is co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of InStride Health, an innovative outpatient program that serves children and adolescents (and their families) diagnosed with anxiety and OCD. She also continues to serve as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, part time, at Harvard Medical School after two decades in the MGH/McLean/HMS system. Prior to co-founding InStride, Dr. Potter served as the Medical Director of the McLean Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Services (including McLean Anxiety Mastery Program, McLean School Consultation Service, and McLean Child and Adolescent Outpatient DBT Program) and served on the Executive Committee of the McLean Institute of Technology in Psychiatry (ITP). She earned a Bachelor of Music from Vanderbilt University and stayed on at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine for her Medical Degree.

Kathryn Boger, PhD, ABPP is a board certified and Harvard-trained child and adolescent clinical psychologist, Dr. Kathryn (“Kat”) Boger has devoted her career to helping children and teens with anxiety and OCD and their families. She is passionate about improving care for youth and decreasing suffering through innovative, research-based treatment approaches. Dr. Boger co-founded the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP), nationally recognized for providing empirically supported, intensive anxiety and OCD treatment. 

While at MAMP, Dr. Boger served as program director, had oversight of all levels of program development and refinement, and served as an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bogerhas published a variety of peer-reviewed journal articles, delivered regional and national talks (including a TEDx) and provided training to hospitals, schools, and the community. In 2021, Dr. Boger co-founded InStride Health with the mission of increasing access to insurance-backed, research-based care for children, adolescents, and young adults with anxiety and OCD. Dr. Boger’s children's book, Step by Step, about facing fears will come out in the fall of 2023.