He is also the director of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Young Child Services at the Boston Child Study Center and is one of twenty master trainers certified by PCIT International. He specializes in working with young children with behavioral difficulties and their families. He received his Ph.D. in clinical child psychology from West Virginia University and completed his pre-doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (formerly Children’s Memorial Hospital), the pediatric teaching hospital of Northwestern University. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on PCIT and has presented his research at regional, national and international conferences. In addition, he has trained over 300 clinicians in PCIT and its variants.