Ellen O'Donnell

Ellen O'Donnell

Ellen O'Donnell, PhD, is a child psychologist at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and Shriners Hospitals for Children – Boston and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters on topics in child psychology, such as learning disabilities, coping with a child's or parent's medical illness, and positive parenting practices to prevent depression and anxiety in children. Ellen lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband and their two boys, who find ways to pull her away from reading books and doing yoga to learn to ski, fish, paddleboard, hike and build stuff in the woods.