Kelly champion, PhD

Kelly Champion, PhD, is a clinical child and adolescent psychologist with additional specialty training and experience in responding to violence and trauma, eating disorders, and behavioral medicine across the lifespan. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and her Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at Eastern Michigan University. Her PhD is from the clinical child and adolescent psychology program at the University of Kansas. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and completed the American Psychological Association's Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology in 2012. Currently, she works as a clinical psychologist part-time for the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and as an independent clinical and forensic psychologist. She is also the Director of Operations for the Northeast Regional Training Center of the American Psychological Association's Violence Prevention Program: Adults and Children Together - Raising Safe Kids Parent Workshop. She serves as member-at-large for the Massachusetts Psychological Association and works with national organizations to reduce the impact of violence on children through advocacy, prevention, education, and clinical intervention. She has published research in peer-reviewed journals on school bullying, child psychopathology, professional training, child maltreatment, and parenting and, she has presented at international, national, and local conferences. Prior to her current roles, she taught and supervised students at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota and, later, at Arizona State University, at the west campus.