Miriam Silverman Email & Phone Number

Dr. Silverman is a licensed clinical psychologist and Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Reflective Practice Facilitator Mentor. For almost two decades, she worked at the Infant-Parent Program at University of California, San Francisco where she provided infant-parent psychotherapy, developmental assessments, mental health consultation to childcare programs, consultation to residential drug treatment for women and their drug-exposed infants, consultation to Certified Nurse Midwives and Public Health Nurses and therapeutic playgroups for toddlers and preschoolers. Additionally, Dr. Silverman was involved in training and supervising interns and professionals in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health as well as infant parent psychotherapy. Prior to coming to the Infant-Parent Program, Dr. Silverman provided home-based developmental assessments for the Zero-To-Three program, infant-parent psychotherapy with young children and their families in the child welfare system and clinical supervision to Early Head Start home visitors. She has created and implemented outpatient drug treatment programs for adolescents, worked as a lead counselor at a residential drug treatment program for women and their drug exposed infants and toddlers, provided school-based psychotherapy for elementary school children and group therapy services for women and teen girls involved in violent relationships.Currently, Dr. Silverman is in private practice specializing in work with young children with disorders of learning and communicating and their families. She also serves on the faculty of West Ed’s Program for Infant-Toddler Caregivers where she has been teaching nationally for over 20 years on early childhood social-emotional development and home visiting.

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  Illinois School Of Professional Psychology

  Doctorate Of Clinical Psychology