Dr. Miriam Rowan is a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. She is an Instructor in Psychology, Part-Time, at Harvard Medical School and an Attending Psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital within the Division of Sports Medicine and the Department of Psychology. She maintains an in-person and Telehealth private practice, where she works with individuals who may present with a variety of concerns, including anxiety, eating, and trauma-based disorders, as well as relationship difficulties. She also specializes in performance psychology, including for athletes, performing artists, and professionals. Her clinical practice takes a Process-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy (PB-CBT) approach. This can non-exhaustively include utilization of mindfulness/compassion, emotion-focused, and behavioral interventions. She is an Affiliate Psychologist at Two Brattle Center, a DBT practice in Cambridge, MA and President-Elect of the American Psychological Association's Division 47 Section II: Performance Psychology.
Dr. Rowan completed her doctoral education at the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium. Her graduate training included yearlong rotations in the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Kaiser Permanente Oakland, Stanford Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and community and school settings. She participated in research efforts at Stanford University and Stanford Medicine aimed at understanding the nuances of anxiety during interracial interactions, addressing cognitive and affective underpinnings of social anxiety disorder, and clarifying distinct disordered eating and exercise patterns of college athletes. She completed her predoctoral internship at Woodhull Medical Center of NYC Health + Hospitals, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, focused on trauma-informed care. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) at McLean Hospital|Harvard Medical School in the Greater Boston Area and then served as Staff Psychologist within McLean’s 3East Continuum of Care within the Child and Adolescent Division. She then worked as a clinician and researcher within the Female Athlete Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, specifically focusing on eating disorders presenting in athletes. She has gained additional advanced training in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD, Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), DBT-Prolongued Exposure (DBT-PE) for PTSD, DBT Family Therapy, and Mindful Sport and Performance Enhancement (MSPE).
Dr. Rowan has over 17 years of experience in the world of classical ballet. She was a professional dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and is alumna of the School of American Ballet and Professional Children’s School. She has published book chapters on performance psychology and the psychological issues surrounding injury in dance. She combines her clinical and academic expertise with her in-depth understanding of the performing arts and aesthetic athletics.
Dr. Rowan is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED), the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP), and the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (IADAMS). Her comments have appeared in The New York Times, Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, and The New England Psychologist, among others.