Dr. Laptook received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the State University of NY at Stony Brook. She completed her internship at NY Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical School and subsequent child postdoctoral fellowship at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Dr. Laptook is a staff psychologist at the Hasbro Children's Partial Hospital Program where she provides individual and family therapy to children and adolescents presenting with combined medical and psychiatric illnesses. Dr. Laptook also has a particular interest and expertise in childhood anxiety, selective mutism, child temperament, and parent-child interactions.