Dr. Priscilla Morrison
Priscilla Morrison, PsyD, is a pediatric neuropsychologist who specializes in the evaluation of children and adolescents with a variety of cognitive, academic, and behavioral challenges. Dr. Morrison has particular expertise in assessing and diagnosing concerns related to attention problems, learning difficulties, and autism.
Dr. Morrison provides a range of testing services to help understand the strengths and weaknesses of each child. Her approach includes an intake evaluation, school observation, collateral interviews with professionals who work with your child, and multiple testing sessions. At the completion of testing, she provides a comprehensive set of recommendations that serve as a roadmap for educational and treatment planning. Dr. Morrison provides clear feedback to parents about her diagnostic impressions and suggestions for interventions. If developmentally appropriate, she can also provide feedback to your child. Her reports are often used to aid in the development of individualized education programs (IEPs) and behavior intervention plans (BIPs), and she welcomes the opportunity to partner with school personnel to best support the students she evaluates. She also frequently works with special education attorneys to help families obtain the supports their child needs.
Dr. Morrison embraces the challenge of gathering information from a variety of sources and piecing them together like a puzzle to create a picture of how each child learns. While structured in her testing approach, she also maintains flexibility to properly assess and understand each child’s unique needs.
Prior to joining the Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dr. Morrison was a pediatric neuropsychologist at the Child Mind Institute. Following the completion of her doctorate in clinical psychology at Pepperdine University, Dr. Morrison completed her internship at New York University’s Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine and her formal post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at Sutter Medical Foundation. She has also received specialty training at the University of California Los Angeles and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Dr. Morrison has extensive training and experience working in a range of settings, including outpatient programs, inpatient hospitals, and the school system. The breadth of Dr. Morrison’s work in these settings enables her to effectively evaluate and advocate for youth from diverse backgrounds, with a range of cognitive and academic concerns.
Dr. Meir Flancbaum
Meir Flancbaum, PsyD, a licensed psychologist, founded the Center for CBT with the goal of providing effective and efficient clinical care for children, adolescents, and their families. He provides therapy, school consultations, and professional development workshops focusing on the evaluation and treatment of children, adolescents, young adults, and families with a variety of social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. Dr. Flancbaum’s approach to therapy utilizes cognitive behavioral techniques to treat children according to their individualized needs. He frequently collaborates with parents, school personnel, and medical providers, and performs school-based observations when appropriate. Dr. Flancbaum has a specialization in the assessment and treatment of Tourette syndrome, trichotillomania (hair pulling), skin picking, and related conditions such as OCD, ADHD, as well as the range of anxiety disorders. He also has an interest in school phobia/refusal and behavioral parent training.
Dr. Flancbaum advocates for students to receive appropriate supports and trains mental health and school professionals to provide practical and effective strategies. He served as a consultant to several schools and agencies in New Jersey and New York, where he conducted functional behavioral assessments, developed behavior intervention plans, and provided ongoing staff consultation and training. Dr. Flancbaum presented workshops at several conferences, such as the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), and at numerous public and private schools.
In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Flancbaum is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Coordinator of CBT Training for the Child Psychiatry Fellows in the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he received an award for Outstanding Teaching in 2016 and 2019. He is also President of the Middlesex County Association of Psychologists. Dr. Flancbaum served as Assistant Research Director at the Tourette Syndrome Program at Rutgers, where he conducted research, taught, and supervised doctoral students. Dr. Flancbaum served as a therapist in clinical trials for pediatric OCD and trichotillomania and wrote several articles in peer-reviewed journals. He presented research at several conferences, such as the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and International Medical and Scientific Symposium on Tourette Syndrome.
Dr. Flancbaum earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Rutgers University with a specialization in CBT for children and families, and completed his internship in child and adolescent psychology at the New York University Child Study Center/Bellevue Hospital Center. He also provided clinical services and received specialized training at the Child/Adolescent OCD, Tic, Trich, and Anxiety Group at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the Tourette Syndrome Program at Rutgers University, and the Institute for ADHD and Disruptive Behavior at the NYU Child Study Center.