Dr. Kichline has a decade of experience serving families and brings specialized training to provide evidence-based approaches. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, with a specialization in clinical child psychology. As a working mother herself, she recognizes the importance of connecting with your family’s healthcare provider and aims to tailor evidence-based treatments to your family with warmth and understanding.

Child Focused Interventions: 

• Perfectionism  

• Anxiety-related problems including social anxiety, separation anxiety, health anxiety, panic disorder, specific phobias, night-time fears, generalized anxiety  

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (exposure-response prevention therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy)

• Tic Disorders 

• ADHD

Parent Focused Interventions

• Supporting Parents of Anxious Children (SPACE certified)  

• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)  

• Toilet Training (brief consultative sessions)  

• Parent Management Training 

Specialty Areas

• Coping with chronic health conditions (e.g., diabetes, cancer, NICU/PICU, adjustment to coping with an illness)

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

B.A., Wake Forest University (with honors), 2014 

M.S., Villanova University, 2016 

PhD., University of Kansas, Clinical Child Psychology Program, 2022 

Internship/Residency Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, 2021-2022 

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anxiety Disorders, Children’s National Hospital, 2022-2023  

Dr. Kichline serves as a faculty attending psychologist at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

She has given numerous talks at national conferences on her research and clinical work and continues to publish in top-tier journals.

Dr Kichline enjoys biking, yoga, baking, and playing musical instruments. On weekends, she loves to spend time with family and friends. She’s often found chasing her toddler around the park.

She recognizes that every family has their own unique family values and culture. Through her own personal experience, she knows the importance of adapting to families and always aims to find what is most important for you and your family. She strongly believes in interweaving culture into evidence-based treatment recommendations.