Postdoctoral Fellow
STAR Clinic
TIES for Families
Dr. Klein is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She has a joint appointment in the Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART), the Family Development Program (FDP), and the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Clinic. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a Within Agency Trainer for PCIT International, and has extensive experience providing PCIT to young children with a variety of clinical presentations. She has expertise in perinatal mental health care, and treatment for families facing perinatal stressors and birth trauma. Dr. Klein earned her Ph.D. in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology with a clinical emphasis from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Masters in Social Work from UCLA. She completed her doctoral internship in UCLA’s Stress, Trauma, and Resilience Clinic, treating youth and families healing from trauma and other stressors. Her research interests include the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based children’s, dyadic, and perinatal mental health care.