Dr. Sarah McHugh is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Brown University Warren Alpert School of Medicine. 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. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University at the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center (PARC) at Bradley Hospital and work as a staff psychologist at PARC for several years afterwards.
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. Dr. McHugh has also worked on integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with exposure and adapting DBT skills to help treat adolescents with OCD or anxiety and co-occurring emotional dysregulation.
Dr. McHugh also teaches and supervises trainees in the DPHB Child Division.
