Dr. Abigail McNally
Dr. Abigail McNally has held leadership positions in several professional organizations related to the field of psychology. While still in graduate school, she served on the Practicum Committee of Boston University’s Department of Psychology. After finishing her education, Dr. McNally went on to hold several positions with the Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (MAPP), including Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Membership Committee, and Secretary. Since 2011, Dr. Abigail McNally has served as Candidate Representative on the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis’s (MIP) Board of Representatives.
In addition to pursuing leadership activities, Dr. Abigail McNally treats patients at a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, motivational interviewing, and dialectical-behavior therapy, she combines investigations of the underpinnings of a patient’s symptoms with interventions in behavior and cognition as necessary. Dr. McNally treats individuals over the age of 13, couples, and families, and maintains expertise in the treatment of trauma, eating disorders, personality disorders, and addiction.
In the beginning of her career, Dr. Abigail McNally held several clinic-based leadership positions while maintaining her private practice. Soon after finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, she took a position as Assistant Clinical Director at Laurel Hill Inn, a residential treatment center dedicated to the treatment of severe eating disorders. Working full-time at the facility, she provided individual and group therapy for patients and maintained responsibility for developing treatment plans, administering programs, supervising staff, crisis intervention, and insurance reviews. After leaving Laurel Hill Inn, Dr. McNally joined Two Brattle Center (TBC), an outpatient and day treatment facility specializing in borderline personality disorder, suicidality, and the behavioral sequelae of trauma. As Director of Psychology Training for the organization, she taught courses in psychodynamic psychotherapy and intake assessment while supervising, conducting, and observing intake evaluations.
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