The ADHD Compassion Project Case Consultation with Dr. Karin Ensink: Using Reflective Functioning in the Treatment of a Gender Non-binary ADHD Child

Scholar and clinical psychologist recognized for her work in child psychopathology, is a distinguished professor and dean of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Conway, a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia University, earned her doctoral degree from the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University where she later served on the faculty for 13 years. Conway has treated children in hospital settings and private practice for over 20 years. She has gained national and international recognition for her work on the psychodynamic treatment of children with ADHD and serves as the research editor for the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Conway has presented her work at a TEDx talk “Cultivating Compassion for the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Child: Shifting Our Stance from Moral Indictment to Empathy” and through her book “Cultivating Compassion: A Psychodynamic Understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology in Canada. She is the director of Mentalization Based Treatment Canada, the founder of a Clinic for the treatment of Complex Trauma, and is an Anna Freud Center recognized MBT supervisor (Child, Adolescent, and Adult) and MBT-C trainer. The author of a number of books on the treatment of children and adolescents, including Mentalization Based Treatment for Children, Karin has published widely on the development of mentalizing, the role of mentalizing as a resilience factor in the context of trauma, and personality disorders in adults, parents, adolescents and children. She has active research collaborations in the UK, US, Italy, Spain, France, Norway and Chile. Karin completed her PhD at UCL with Peter Fonagy and Mary Target on mentalizing in children while working at the Anna Freud Center in London. She provides trainings for the assessment of mentalization in therapists, children and parents.

Graduate student attending the Clinical PsyD program at Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and working at the university's ADHD clinic. She has a special interest in working with adolescents, trauma, and LGBTQ+ identity.

Assistant professor of clinical practice at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, and a clinical psychologist in private practice in South Orange, NJ. Dr. Lyon is co-director of the ADHD Compassion Project at Rutgers and specializes in treating adolescents and young adults from psychodynamic and mentalization-based perspectives.

Graduate student at the Clinical PsyD program at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. She graduated with a master's degree from New York University. Her research and clinical interests include developing effective prevention and interventions for externalizing and internalizing disorders in children, child development outcomes in the context of parenting, as well as the development of effective treatment and intervention for disordered eating.