Dr. Lisa Damour is a psychologist, Executive Director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls, best-selling author, monthly New York Times columnist, and regular contributor to CBS News.

Dr. Damour writes the monthly Adolescence column for the New York Times, maintains a private psychotherapy practice, consults and speaks internationally and is a Senior Advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University

She has written numerous academic papers, chapters, and books related to education and child development. She is also the author of two New York Times best selling books, Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood and Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls.

Dr. Damour graduated with honors from Yale University and worked for the Yale Child Study Center before earning her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan. She has been a fellow at Yale’s Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy and the University of Michigan’s Power Foundation. She and her husband are the proud parents of two daughters.

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