Dr. Sarah McHugh is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Brown University Alpert Warren School of Medicine, and a Staff Psychologist at the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center (PARC). Dr. McHugh received her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her predoctoral internship at Brown University, specializing in child and adolescent psychology.
Dr. McHugh's research interests include examining menstrual cycle effects on psychopathology, including cyclical worsening in anxiety, mood symptoms, and suicidal ideation, and exploring dialectical behavior therapy as a potential treatment for those with menstrual cycle-linked symptom changes.
As a member of the PARC team, Dr. McHugh treats patients in the Partial Hospital Program for OCD and Anxiety related disorders. Dr. McHugh also treats patients in the DBT-X Track, using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with exposure for adolescents with OCD/anxiety and co-occurring emotional dysregulation. Dr. McHugh also teaches and supervises trainees in the DPHB Child Division.
