Abby Fraade

Abby Fraade is a Clinical and Community Psychology Fellow in the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry Psychology Section. In her role as Psychology Fellow, Abby provides clinical services at the Substance use and Addiction Treatment Unit and West Haven Mental Health Clinic in Child and Adolescent Services.

Abby earned her Masters of Arts in Psychology at Long Island University, Brooklyn, where she is currently pursuing her PhD in Clinical Psychology. Abby earned her Bachelors of Arts in Environmental Studies at Brandeis University. She has contributed to research on common factors in psychotherapy in the Psychotherapy Research Lab at Long Island University, Brooklyn, under the mentorship of Lisa Samstag, PhD. Abby's dissertation, funded by a student research grant from American Psychological Association's Division 29, Society for Advancement of Psychotherapy, examines embodied empathy as a facilitative interpersonal trait in psychotherapists. Abby also served as a Research Assistant at the World Trade Center Health Program Mental Health Research Lab at the New York University School of Medicine, Clinical Center of Excellence, where she contributed to research validating an approach to trauma treatment that integrated the use of heart rate variability biofeedback into an empirically supported trauma treatment.

Abby has gained a range clinical experiences with a community mental health population at a residential treatment facility, a college counseling center serving students with significant psychosocial stressors, Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, and at the Substance use and Addiction Treatment Unit at CMHC. Abby’s clinical approach is based in contemporary relational psychodynamic theory and research with integration of cognitive and behavioral interventions when appropriate. She seeks to tailor treatment to each person’s uniqueness and works with her patients toward recovery through insight, reflective functioning, and attunement.