Lindsay Henderson, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and the Director of Psychological Services at American Well, the nation’s largest provider of telemedicine services. Prior to joining American Well, Dr. Henderson was a staff psychologist at McLean Hospital in the Boston area and Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. McLean Hospital is the nation’s top psychiatric hospital, and here Dr. Henderson specialized in working with adolescents and their families, as well as supervising one of the hospital’s psychology postdoctoral training programs.
While in-person visits with mental health providers won’t go away anytime soon, behavioral telehealth is expected to surge, as younger patients seek convenient ways to engage with a provider to address mental health problems.