Our Team

Dr. Alex Reed

PsyD

Dr. Reed founded Acorn due to her passion for providing gold standard, evidence-based and strengths-based care for patients and families. She is driven to help families come together over struggles, and on a mission to de-stigmatize the [diagnostic] label. She believes that gathering information about a child can help families understand behaviors and take action to support them.

Dr. Reed’s focus at Acorn is diagnostic clarity of neurodevelopmental disorders including but not limited to Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities (e.g., dyslexia, dyscalculia), Intellectual Disability, Developmental Delay, as well as OCD, PDA-profiles, Anxiety, Depression and co-occurring diagnoses for infants through young adults.

About Alex

Dr. Alex Reed is a Clinical Pediatric Psychologist who specializes in psychological assessment of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities from infancy to young adulthood. She has a specific interest in underserved populations and transition-aged mental health service provision and continues to be driven to improve access to services for children of all ages. She continues to partner with local community mental health settings to offer these services.

Alex has been called to support children from an early age, volunteering in multiple disabilities classrooms as a student at Episcopal Academy. Alex continued to work in schools, inpatient and outpatient settings throughout her studies in New York and Philadelphia. Alex continued her studies abroad in Amman, Jordan and Cape Town, South Africa conducting research on childhood assessments abroad. Alex received the Dean’s Scholarship for 5 years of graduate training through the New School for Social Research. She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Alex’s professional journey took her to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, a top ten US News and World Report pediatric hospital, working in clinics including the neurodevelopmental clinic with complex neurological syndromes in early childhood, the non-accidental head trauma unit, and various outpatient clinics conducting neurodevelopmental evaluations with diverse populations and ages.

Alex is a mom of two incredible humans and also serves as a consultant and contributor for parents of children with neurodevelopment disorders on Dr. Becky Kennedy’s “Good Inside” community and platform. Alex helped develop and continues to nurture the “NDK room”.

Professional Training

• 2022-2023 Fellowship

• Nationwide Children’s Hospital: Child Development Clinic

• 2020-2021 Pre-doctoral Internship

• Nationwide Children’s Hospital: Child Development Clinic

• 2018-2020 Practica

• Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health

• Intercommunity Action

• Nemours Children’s Health (Swank Autism Center)

Professional Memberships and Certifications

Collaborative Problem Solving, Advanced Training

PsyPact Certified

American Psychological Association

American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Ohio Psychology License

Pennsylvania Psychology License