M.Ed. in Human Development and Psychology (Child Advocacy Concentration), Harvard Graduate School of Education
B.A. in Psychology, Wellesley College
Jaylan Abd Elrahman, Ph.D. (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Clinical Scholar Fellow at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern University, an Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology (Child Advocacy Concentration) from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in Psychology from Wellesley College. She completed an APA-accredited predoctoral internship at Boston Medical Center and the Boston University School of Medicine's Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology. Dr. Elrahman's clinical background equips her to work with clients across the lifespan - from young children to older adults- with diverse mental health concerns. In addition to her clinical training, She has over ten years of experience working with young people - particularly migrant youth and women of color - in community based settings, designing and facilitating healing-oriented programming. She also has extensive experience in education research, particularly on issues relating to educational equity, through prior work at RTI International, the Brookings Institution, and the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Dr. Elrahman specializes in clinical work with adolescents, young adults, and families, especially those who struggle with mood disorders and carry histories of collective and complex trauma. Her clinical practice is founded on Humanistic and Relational Cultural Theories, grounded in principles of compassion, curiosity, and humility. She has a strong conviction that relationships facilitate change, and as such, frames her work as a collaborative process, one rooted in honest connection and appreciation for the wisdom and unique strengths that every client possesses. She ensures that therapy is organized around the pursuit of joint goals uniquely suited to clients’ experiences, intersecting identities, and preferred pace. She embraces a holistic understanding of wellbeing and seeks to integrate multiple tools from various healing modalities - including somatic-based interventions, expressive arts and narrative therapies, ACT, DBT, and CBT-informed processes. Dr. Elrahman hopes that clients experience therapy as venues of transformation that offer relief, empowerment, clarity and hope.