About Makiko Watanabe, PhD
Dr. Makiko Watanabe (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the founding director of the Child and Adolescent Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Program at MGH.
Dr. Watanabe graduated with a BA from the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from George Washington University and then completed an APA-accredited psychology internship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She also completed an APA-accredited postdoctoral fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she provided full-model DBT for adolescents with suicidal and self-harm behaviors.
As a staff psychologist at MGH, Dr. Watanabe is committed to providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed, evidence-based interventions for children, youth and families. She has developed and leads family therapy for children with emerging behavioral and emotional difficulties. Additionally, she provides behavioral health consultations and brief interventions for children and families coping with a range of medical, emotional, behavioral, and/or academic challenges in Pediatrics and Adolescement Medicine primary care clinics, through the Integrated Primary Care (IPC) program. Dr. Watanabe collaborates on clinical implementation grants evaluating the implementation of trauma-informed interventions in primary care and tertiary care settings.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- ADHD
- Anxiety and depression
- Behavioral Difficulties
- Child and adolescent psychotherapy
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Families coping with medical illness
- Parenting
- Suicidal/non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder
Treats:
- Pediatrics
Languages:
- Japanese, Korean
Locations
Mass General Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
55 Fruit St.
Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care
Suite 6A
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-5600
Medical Education
- PhD, George Washington University
- Fellowship, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Evernorth Behavioral Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Behavioral Health
- Wellpoint
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
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