Mark Schexnaildre, Ph.D.

Dr. Mark Schexnaildre leads the child and adolescent section of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of New Orleans, and specializes in treating difficult behaviors in young people. Dr. Schexnaildre’s areas of expertise also include parent training, family therapy, and treating youth anxiety and depression. He also has broad experience treating adult patients.

Dr Schexnaildre joined the clinic in August, 2015, after completing his doctoral internship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he served in the Child and Family Therapy Clinic at the Kennedy Kreiger Institute. He received his doctorate of psychology from Louisiana State University, where he worked with both adult and pediatric patients. Clinical experiences included service at the Pediatric Psychology department of the Baton Rouge Clinic, the Early Intervention HIV Clinic, and as part of an outpatient consultation team at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, and these provided him with a broad foundation of treatment of psychological disorders upon which he has continued to build. Dr. Schexnaildre also has experience with inpatient psychiatric disorders through his work at Earl K. Long Hospital in Baton Rouge.

Academic contributions by Dr. Schexnaildre include research published in the journal Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development. His dissertation was a longitudinal model of posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth within the New Orleans community after Hurricane Katrina. He has also presented on posttraumatic growth and recovery at several conferences including the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Dr. Schexnaildre’s training under some of the pioneers of Child and Family Therapy at Kennedy Kreiger have prepared him to assist with the challenges facing New Orleans families today.