Amanda Bean, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist. She received her Doctorate in Psychology
from the Wright Institute in 2018, and her BA in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude, from Lesley
University in 2011. She specializes in child and adolescent trauma and psychological
assessment.

Dr. Bean has worked in schools, hospitals, community mental heal clinics, and in the community
serving children, families, and adults with culturally sensitive direct service, particularly as it
pertains to attachment disruptions, abuse and neglect, and sexual trauma. Her expertise
includes collaborative assessment and child development. She is the Associate Director of the
Wright Institute Assessment Services, and an adjunct faculty member of the Wright Institute,
where she teaches Child and Adolescent Intervention and sits on dissertation committees. In
her private practice, Dr. Bean works with individuals and families with mood and anxiety
disorders, self-harm behaviors, personality disorders, as well as adoption and divorce. She
provides assessment of specific learning disorders, executive functioning challenges, personality
assessment, PTSD and C-PTSD, and international adoption evaluations.

At Therapy Partners, Dr. Bean supervises doctoral students treating a range of complex, severe
presentations and acute mental health needs in various Bay Area inpatient psychiatric settings.
She also teaches the use of the Rorschach, and in her practice, she provides consultation to
psychiatrists, psychologists, and other providers to better understand unconscious processing
with a relational, trauma-informed, systems perspective. In her personal life, Dr. Bean enjoys
gardening and poetry.