Jill Vaughan Tesei, APRN

Jill Vaughan Tesei is a board-certified Family Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with advanced training in child and adolescent mental health. She received her degree from Yale University and also holds Master’s degrees in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapies from Lesley University.

Jill completed specialized training in psychopharmacology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Behavioral Parent Training through the Yale Child Study Center, and further developed her CBT expertise at the Beck Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

With over two decades of experience across inpatient, residential, and emergency psychiatric settings, Jill now focuses on the private practice treatment of anxiety and related disorders in children, adolescents, and adults. She is fully licensed and sees many adult clients, with a special emphasis on anxiety disorders, including Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social and Separation Anxiety, Phobias, and OCD. Jill also has training in Habit Reversal Therapy for tic disorders and Trichotillomania.

She has studied under leading experts such as Philip Kendall, Tamar Chansky, and John March, and currently teaches child psychiatry as a clinical professor at the Yale University School of Nursing.