Dr. Amaro Laria, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience. Some of his areas of expertise include: behavioral medicine, clinical hypnosis, biofeedback, trauma and dissociation, culture and mental health, and integrative psychotherapy, among others. He has taught at various doctoral programs in clinical psychology at Clark University, UMass Boston, and William James College (formerly “Mass School of Professional Psychology”). Dr Laria was a NIMH post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and has been in the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School through his affiliation with Cambridge Health Alliance for more than 20 years. He was an advisor to DSM-5 on the workgroup on culture and gender for the anxiety disorders. He has published in the areas of: behavioral medicine, culture, and trauma and dissociation, among others. He is the co-founder of Boston Behavioral Medicine, LLC in Brookline, MA, where he has been serving as a staff psychologist, director of training, training instructor, and clinical supervisor for 17 years.

Dr. Katharine “Kim” Larsson is a doctoral level Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist, Board Certified. She has been working in the advanced practice role as both a psychotherapist and psychopharmacologist since 1995. She underwent psychotherapy training at the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA; formerly known as The Cambridge Hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School) in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Larsson also completed a two-year post graduate fellowship at the Behavioral Medicine Program at The Cambridge Hospital, which emphasized the clinical applications of biofeedback and hypnosis, as well as integrative psychotherapy in the treatment of a variety of mental health conditions (i.e., anxiety, depression, trauma-based responses), as well as medical conditions exacerbated by psychological stress (e.g., migraines, IBS, TMJ, other chronic pain conditions). Dr. Larsson was director of the Biofeedback Program at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates (currently Atrius Health). She was also a clinical supervisor in the Behavioral Medicine Program at CHA, until she co-founded Boston Behavioral Medicine, LLC in Brookline, MA, where she continues to practice behavioral medicine, integrative psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.