In addition to working with trauma, behavioral and emotional difficulties, Dr. Gaw has expertise in the area of autism spectrum disorders. She develops and conducts social thinking skills groups for children and teens on the autism spectrum and co-facilitates a multidisciplinary healthy lifestyle treatment program, Fit Youth, designed for families of overweight children and teens. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, APA Divisions 53 and 31, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Autism Society of America, Play Therapy Association and past president for the Cleveland Psychological Association. Dr. Gaw’s involvement with the OPA includes membership on the Advocacy, LGBT, Membership and Education committees as well as the Oral History Project and the board of the Foundation for Psychology In Ohio.