Providing empowering and empathic care to children, teens, and their families

Dr. Alyssa Milot Travers is a psychologist licensed in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Dr. Travers built this practice to provide high quality services in her local community where she lives with her young family.

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Growing up within a family of educators, values of curiosity, humility, service, and the importance of lifelong learning were instilled in me from a young age. I firmly believe that every individual has valuable strengths to contribute to the world, and I take pride in supporting children, adolescents, and young adults in learning more about themselves and providing them with resources and strategies to realize their full potential.

Clinical Overview

In her private practice, Dr. Travers specializes in assessment and treatment for children, adolescents, and young adults presenting with a range of developmental, learning, and mental health challenges such as anxiety behavioral concerns. Dr. Travers has served as a consultant to public and private schools helping to craft special education programs and specialized interventions for neurodiverse students as well as train school staff.

She also helped to create and lead comprehensive social-emotional, transition, and life skills programming for teens with autism.

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Dr. Travers specializes in assessment and treatment for children, adolescents, and young adults presenting with a range of developmental, learning, and mental health challenges.
In addition to this practice, Dr. Travers also works as a staff psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School and focuses on assessing and treating individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.
She has evaluated and treated children, adolescents and young adults in a variety of settings including public and private schools, colleges and universities, outpatient settings and hospitals.
Dr. Travers has served as a consultant to public and private schools helping to craft special education programs and specialized interventions for neurodiverse students as well as train school staff.
She also helped to create and lead comprehensive social-emotional, transition, and life skills programming for teens with autism.
She is trained in well-researched interventions such as cognitive-behavioral (CBT) and dialectical behavior (DBT) therapies.
Dr. Travers also has personal and professional interests in mind-body approaches to wellness, including yoga. She completed a 200-hour yoga teacher certification program.

Research Overview

Dr. Travers has a specific interest in understanding gender differences in developmental, learning and mental health challenges. She has extensively studied the impact of gender on adolescent anxiety and depression.

She is a nationally recognized expert on the assessment and treatment of females on the spectrum (including adults) and has been published in several top-tier academic journals. She serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for publications such as the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal of Primary Prevention, Applied Developmental Science, and Women’s Health.

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Credentials

In addition to her current appointment at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Travers has also previously served as a part-time faculty member at Boston College, her alma mater, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and human development. She takes pride in mentoring future therapists and psychologists.

Dr. Travers earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Women’s Studies from the College of the Holy Cross and master’s and doctoral degrees in Counseling Psychology from Boston College. She then completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Selected Work on the Female Presentation of Autism

Green, R.M., Travers, A.S.M., Howe, Y., & McDougle, C. (2019). Women and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Diagnosis and implications for treatment of adolescents and adults. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21:22. Link to article

Milot, A.S., O’Rourke, J., Howe, Y., Rao Hureau, A., Nowinski, L., Mullet, J., Tai, E., Ravichandran, C., & McDougle, C. (2017). Neuropsychological profiles of females with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Paper presentation at 125^th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington DC.

Milot, A.S. (Spring 2016). The unique interpersonal demands for women with ASD: Implications for gender-specific supports for adults. Autism Spectrum Disorder News, 8(4). Link to article

Travers, A.S.M. (2017; 2020; 2023). Understanding gender differences in ASD: The female phenotype (Presented to medical school residents and trainees; health care providers; parents and families). Most recent recording found here.

Selected Work on the Female Presentation of Autism

Green, R.M., Travers, A.S.M., Howe, Y., & McDougle, C. (2019). Women and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Diagnosis and implications for treatment of adolescents and adults. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21:22. Link to article

Milot, A.S., O’Rourke, J., Howe, Y., Rao Hureau, A., Nowinski, L., Mullet, J., Tai, E., Ravichandran, C., & McDougle, C. (2017). Neuropsychological profiles of females with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Paper presentation at 125^th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington DC.

Milot, A.S. (Spring 2016). The unique interpersonal demands for women with ASD: Implications for gender-specific supports for adults. Autism Spectrum Disorder News, 8(4). Link to article

Travers, A.S.M. (2017; 2020; 2023). Understanding gender differences in ASD: The female phenotype (Presented to medical school residents and trainees; health care providers; parents and families). Most recent recording found here.

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