Alexis Lee, Ph.D

Alexis Lee is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Boston Child Study Center in Portland, Maine. She specializes in treatment of children, adolescents, and parents, and provides individual, family, and group psychotherapy. She has extensive experience providing outpatient treatment to children and adolescents with disruptive behaviors, trauma and adjustment disorders, ADHD, ASD, anxiety, depression, emotion dysregulation, and gender and sexuality diversity. She provides psychotherapy using evidence-based treatment that is trauma-informed and draws from Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and family-systems modalities.

Dr. Lee graduated with a B.A. from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY where she majored in Psychology and minored in Education Studies. Before graduate school, Dr. Lee worked at Haskins Laboratories, a non-profit research institute in New Haven, CT, as a research coordinator investigating early language predictors of reading outcomes in young children. She earned a M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Child and Family Track, from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, OH. Throughout graduate school, she trained in a variety of settings, such as schools, community mental health centers, and hospital and university clinics, including the Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth Medical Center. At CWRU, Dr. Lee worked with Dr. Sandra Russ on research projects investigating pretend play and creativity as well as the relationship between ADHD and creativity in adolescents.

Dr. Lee completed her APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. While on internship, she collaborated on a multidisciplinary foster care team and participated on the consultation-liaison service in the Emergency Department at Upstate Children’s Hospital. Following internship, she completed a postdoctoral child clinical fellowship at Kennedy Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. As a post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Lee received training and supervision in DBT for adolescents and participated in the Gender Diversity Clinic where she provided gender affirming care to LGBTQIA+ youth. Additionally, she conducted neuropsychological evaluations focused on developmental, learning, social-emotional, and executive functioning concerns.

Dr. Lee is particularly passionate about working with parents of children with complex emotional and behavioral disorders, teenagers emerging as young adults facing complex interpersonal challenges and emotional dysregulation, and diverse youth navigating their sexuality and/or gender identity. Dr. Lee practices from a strengths-based approach that is rooted in curiosity, flexibility, and compassion. She strives to help her patients develop a strong sense of self-worth, autonomy, and resiliency while working toward their individual and interpersonal goals.