Our Team

Alison Fletcher is a third-year Clinical Psychology Doctoral (PsyD) student with a concentration in Health Psychology at Antioch University New England (AUNE). She is completing a year-long practicum training within the Pediatric Psychology track at Yale Child Study Center under the supervision of Dr. Vassilopoulos. Her clinical work includes working with patients and families with headache, chronic pain, functional neurological symptom disorder (FNSD), and a variety of other neurologic disorders. She also assists with clinic coordination and liaison between the medical team, patient, family, and schools. Fletcher is a team member of the Yale Comfort Ability Program (CAP) for pediatric pain as well as the Yale CAP for Sickle Cell Pain. Her current research explores the relationships between anxiety, depression, pain catastrophizing, and functional disability in pediatric pain patients. Her areas of...

Barbara Storch, PhD, is the postdoctoral Pediatric Psychology Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center. She received her undergraduate degree from Tufts University, where she double-majored in Cognitive & Brain Sciences and Child Studies & Human Development. She received her doctorate degree from the Health Psychology and Clinical Science program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. As a graduate student, she trained clinically in a variety of settings, including medical subspecialty clinics focused on working with children and families with chronic medical illness and comorbid psychosocial concerns, as well as outpatient settings specializing in treatment for childhood anxiety and mood disorders. Her research focuses on psychosocial adjustment to a diagnosis of chronic illness in childhood, with a particular focus on resilience in chronic gastrointestinal conditions. She...