Queenie Lam, PhD

Queenie Lam, PhD, (she/they) is an associate neuropsychologist in the Gund Learning and Diagnostic Center at the Child Mind Institute. As a bilingual Cantonese- and English-speaking clinician, Dr. Lam is passionate about providing client-centered care that considers concerns in the context of cultural, community, and systemic factors.

Throughout their clinical training, Dr. Lam has worked with children, adolescents, and adults in outpatient hospital settings, university counseling centers, community practices, and homes. Dr. Lam has extensive experience supporting individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), learning disorders, and socioemotional challenges.

Dr. Lam believes in using comprehensive assessment methods to understand the breadth of an individual’s cognitive profile and provide recommendations that foster strengths and scaffold challenges. Working collaboratively with individuals and their families, Dr. Lam is passionate about advocating for services that an individual may need to perform on par with their peers, including Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and 504 plans.

Dr. Lam also has experience providing individual and group psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults to address concerns related to anxiety, depression, and trauma. Using interventions from psychodynamic therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and the UCLA PEERS® social skills program, Dr. Lam adopts individualized approaches for each client to support their treatment goals.

• Doctoral psychology intern, Counseling and Psychological Services, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Evaluator, Action Potential Institute
• Extern, Children’s Mental Health Center, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
• Psychotherapist, Psychological Services Center, Long Island University Brooklyn
• Extern, Dwellness In-Home Psychological Services

• PhD, Clinical Psychology, Long Island University Brooklyn
• MA, Clinical Psychology, Long Island University Brooklyn
• BA, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania