Dr. Lara Rifkin is a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder and director of New York City Anxiety and OCD. Dr. Rifkin completed her clinical training at McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School where she trained at McLean’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institutes for adults and children (OCDI and OCDI Jr.), the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP) and the Behavioral Health Partial Program (BHP). Dr. Rifkin earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Temple University where she was mentored by Dr. Philip Kendall who developed the most widely studied and disseminated treatment for child anxiety, Coping Cat. Dr. Rifkin has trained junior clinicians in this treatment and has served as a school consultant for child anxiety. Dr. Rifkin is passionate about providing evidence-based care and her research is focused on how to improve treatment outcomes with a specific interest in targeting intolerance of uncertainty.