Dr. April Brown, PhD, MPH, is a Licensed Psychologist specializing in early childhood mental health and parent-child relationships. She helps families navigate challenges such as parent or child emotion dysregulation, anxiety, problem behaviors, developmental disabilities, and neurodivergence.

As a late-diagnosed autistic woman with neurodivergent family members, Dr. Brown brings both personal insight and professional expertise to her work. She understands the unique challenges that families face and is dedicated to helping caregivers navigate family conflict and support their children’s development through a neuro-affirming lens. Dr. Brown is a Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Clinical Specialist and also provides adult ASD evaluations. She is passionate about helping neurodivergent clients understand their emotions, balance unmasking with meeting social demands, and discover how to make self-accommodations to better manage their anxiety. Many adults become aware of their neurodivergence through their children, which can elicit a mix of validation, grief, relief, and even a re-evaluation of their past.

Dr. Brown specializes in childhood trauma and helping parents understand how their childhood experiences affect their caregiving relationships, parenting philosophy, and influence parental anxiety. Dr. Brown utilizes evidence-based techniques grounded in behavioral principles, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Children (DBT-C), and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to meet client needs. Dr. Brown is passionate about using the parent-child relationship as a point of intervention. She collaborates with clients to engage in mindful parenting and to increase their confidence in implementing the treatment strategies necessary to produce desired results.

In 2016, Dr. Brown earned a Master’s in Public Health from Emory University, specializing in Behavioral Science. Her research focused on the link between childhood trauma, parental discipline tactics, and child problem behavior over time. She then pursued her doctoral training at Emory, earning an M.A. in Clinical Psychology in 2018 and a Ph.D. in 2022. Her doctoral research explored how childhood adversity affects adolescent stress response and treatment outcomes in Multisystemic Therapy (MST). She also studied how positive parenting practices can buffer the impact of childhood adversity on child emotion regulation in early development.