Maryellen Pachler Kennell, APRN

Maryellen Pachler Kennell is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry. She earned her nursing, master’s, and post-master’s degrees from Yale University.

Before entering private practice, Maryellen worked as a clinical researcher at the Yale Child Study Center, where she contributed to the Research Unit in Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP). Her research focused on developing and testing medications for children with serious psychiatric conditions.

Maryellen’s clinical expertise includes treating Depression, ADHD, Tic Disorders, and Trichotillomania, as well as providing Behavioral Parent Training and developmental guidance. She specializes in the Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of anxiety disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in youth. As the lead clinician in a study evaluating CBT for childhood anxiety in primary care settings, she also has extensive experience working with high school and college athletes experiencing performance anxiety. A respected voice in the field, Maryellen has co-authored over ten publications, lectured nationally and internationally, and currently serves as a lecturer at the Yale University School of Nursing.