Dr. Reagan Kinnear, Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Reagan Kinnear has specific expertise in working with children who struggle with behavior and emotional difficulties. Children she treats often present with developmental, behavioral and/or anxiety disorders. She has a special interest in prevention and early intervention and feels addressing behavior early leads to improved outcomes for children.
Dr. Kinnear has almost 20 years of direct clinical experience. Prior to establishing Kinnear Child Psychology, Dr. Kinnear was a clinical staff psychologist at the Child Study Center (CSC) at Cook Childrens Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Before the CSC, Dr. Kinnear served as a Director of Clinical Services, a staff psychologist, a member of the medical faculty, and a clinical supervisor in the Behavior Management Clinic at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. At KKI, Dr. Kinnear not only delivered direct individual, family and group therapy, she provided clinical supervision to over 75 doctoral interns, postdoctoral fellows, and junior clinical staff. She also served as facilities director for one of the four primary outpatient clinical sites.
Dr. Kinnear earned her doctoral degree from Oklahoma State University. She completed an APA-approved doctoral internship and a multi-year postdoctoral fellowship across clinics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Kinnear is a licensed psychologist, certified therapist and level 1 trainer of Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP). She has specific training in Parent Child Interaction Therapy- Selective Mutism (PCIT-SM), as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
She is a member of the Selective Mutism Association (www.sma.org), SPACE (www.spacetreatment.net), and National Association of School Psychologists (NASP).