CBC Team

Chris Senior is an Assistant Director of Training and full-time licensed psychologist at CBC. Through his role as Assistant Training Director, he helps organize and support the postdoctoral fellowship, predoctoral externship, and social work internship programs. As a clinician, Chris provides individual, group, and family therapy to children, adolescents, and adults. He is intensively trained in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to treat a wide range of anxiety and mood disorders, interpersonal, emotional, and behavioral difficulties, and complex trauma. Chris also works closely with schools and community organizations to establish DBT therapy programs, delivering trainings and ongoing consultation for school psychologists, counselors, social workers, and clinical staff. Through his role as Co-Chair of CBC's Anti-Racism Committee, Chris is dedicated to the practice of culturally informed and responsive care.

Chris earned his Bachelor's degree (BA) in Psychology at Duke University and his Master’s (MA, Psychological Sciences) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Clinical Psychology) degrees at Catholic University of America. He completed his APA-accredited predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship training at Nemours Children’s Health, Delaware Valley where he provided individual, group, and family therapy across numerous integrated primary care and outpatient therapy clinics. Through his externship trainings at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, Chris worked across pediatric in-patient and integrated primary care settings providing CBT and family systems therapy to children and adolescents presenting with anxiety, depression, conduct problems, chronic illness, and family relationship difficulties.

Chris is bilingual in English and Spanish and has provided culturally-centered therapy to Spanish-speaking children, adolescents, and families. As a non-native Spanish-speaker, he developed his bilingual therapy competencies through multiple training programs including Children's National Hospital, Nemours Children’s Health, and PASEO, an immersive training program based in Huanchaco, Peru.

Chris has conducted research in academic medical center and school settings. Most recently, he conducted an investigation examining barriers and facilitators to accessing mental health treatment for Spanish-speaking families in pediatric integrated primary care clinics. He has also published multiple first-author manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals examining the effects of a school-based group therapy program for children with social and emotional difficulties.

Prior to graduate school, Chris served as a Teach for America corps member (Southern New Mexico, 2012) teaching 9th grade science. During graduate school, he continued to interface with students providing group therapy within inner-city schools across the Washington, DC/Maryland region.

Outside of work, Chris enjoys slowing down and enjoying activities such as hiking, biking, playing soccer, reading in Riverside Park, and exploring creative outlets through music and painting.