Elyssa Kushner, Psy.D., Counseling Psychotherapist

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 2006 La Salle University
e-mail Dr. Kushner at ekushner@mail.med.upenn.edu

Elyssa Kushner, Psy.D., is a clinical psychotherapist at the Center for the
Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine. She received her Psy.D. in clinical psychology from La Salle
University in 2006. Dr. Kushner joined the faculty after completing her
clinical internship at Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. Her training at La Salle involved
specialization in anxiety disorders with an emphasis on generalized anxiety
disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Her focus at the Center is on the
treatment of all anxiety disorders with an emphasis on OCD including serving as
the co-coordinator for the OCD Augmentation study.