Dr. Kelley Yost Abrams is a family and childhood therapist, an early childhood researcher, and a consultant specializing in parent-child relationships, social-emotional development, and infant mental health.

Dr. Yost Abrams received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Experience

Dr. Yost Abrams leads operations at Jigsaw Diagnostics, a telehealth provider of early autism and other neurobehavioral evaluations. She provides expertise to leading pediatric organizations and has been at the forefront of digital therapeutics.

Dr. Yost Abrams founded a company called Child Development and Parenting Consultations, and offers therapy services to parents at Maven Clinic, which provides online therapy services and is based in New York City. 

She has served families with a diverse range of needs, including those with premature infants and parents of children with behavioral difficulties, developmental delays, disabilities, giftedness, autism spectrum disorder, anxiety and ADHD.

Other relevant positions

Dr. Yost Abrams is a fellow with Zero to Three, a parenting website, and a member of the advisory board of Greenlightfund.org. She is also the mother of two teens.