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Providers in Atlanta, Georgia
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Dr. Lillie Huddleston
Chief Psychologist/Director
Dr. Lillie B. Huddleston is a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist specializing in assessment and intervention for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental conditions. She earned her doctorate in School Psychology from Georgia State University and completed an APA-approved pre-doctoral internship in the Lewisville Independent School District in Lewisville, Texas. Dr. Huddleston completed advanced training on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition (ADOS-2) at the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Huddleston has over twenty years of experience in education and psychology. She has conducted comprehensive assessments in school and clinic settings. Most recently, Dr. Huddleston worked in executive leadership in City Schools of Decatur, overseeing all of the district's mental health services and behavior support. Dr. Huddleston previously held faculty appointments at Georgia State University and Emory University School of Medicine, where she focused on intervention and educational consultation for children with neurodevelopmental conditions and their families.
Dr. Huddleston’s current areas of interest include play therapy with young children and individual and group therapy with adolescents to address issues related to anxiety, depression, and executive functioning. Dr. Huddleston also offers parent coaching and a range of consultative services related to school concerns.
Dr. Alexandra Pillat
Founder (Ask for Availability)
Alexandra Catherine (Dowd) Pillat graduated Cum Laude in Psychology from Harvard University in 2011. She completed her honors thesis in the Laboratory for Developmental Studies under the supervision of Dr. Elizabeth Spelke, exploring if 9-month-old infants understand how to take a person’s object preferences into account when helping that person acquire an object.
After graduation, she spent two years working as a Research Assistant in the Yale Early Social Cognition Laboratory with Dr. Katarzyna Chawarska and Dr. Frederick Shic. During her time at Yale, she initiated two research projects that assessed the presence and developmental trajectories of various regulatory and affective responses and social deficits during the second year of life in infants later diagnosed with ASD.
Alexandra received her Masters and Doctorate through the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, "Social Spectrum: Understanding the incremental development of social skills in infants at-risk for autism", explored how early social skills first emerge and develop from 12 to 24 months of age. Alexandra coined the term "Social Spectrum" which refers to the full range of social functioning from typical developing to severely impaired.
Alexandra then completed her Doctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Emory University. For two years, she conducted diagnostic assessments for children with autism and other developmental disabilities at the Marcus Autism Center.
