ABOUT ME

I’m Carl Waitz, PsyD, a licensed Psychologist based in Brookline.

I earned my doctoral degree in clinical psychology in the APA accredited program at Azusa Pacific University, near Los Angeles. My clinical rotations included public and private schools, community mental health with students and young adults, residential psychiatric hospitals, and acute psychiatric hospitals.

I completed internship training at the UT Health San Antonio medical school and my fellowship training at the Suicide Prevention and Resilience at Children's (SPARC) program at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, Texas; both of these programs are accredited by the APA.

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Currently, I am an attending psychologist at Boston Children's Hospital and on faculty at Harvard Medical School. In my role, I conduct individual, group, and family therapy as well as psychological testing and consultation to medical staff. In addition to direct service, I provide clinical supervision and structured teaching to psychiatry residents and fellows.

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I also hold the following professional roles:

• President of the 

  Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology

  
  

• President of the Section for Local Chapters of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology

• Marketing-and-Membership Member at Large on the board of the

  Acute, Intensive, and Residential Services Special Interest Group

  of the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

  
  

• Chair of the Massachusetts Psychological Association's Early Career Committee