Dr. Scheinfield is a nationally certified school psychologist who specializes in the treatment and assessment of children and adolescents. She provides individual and group therapy, consultative services, as well as comprehensive psychological evaluations to determine children’s learning strengths and weaknesses, memory and processing skills, visual-motor abilities, attention, executive functioning skills, academic achievement capacity, and social/emotional functioning.

Dr. Scheinfield has extensive experience working with a variety of children and adolescent needs including Asperger’s Syndrome, Autism, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Cognitive Impairments, Developmental Delays, Down Syndrome, and Learning Disabilities. Additionally, she works with a multitude of social/emotional issues such as Anxiety Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Substance Abuse. She also provides individual and group therapy for any learning or emotional challenges that may interfere with school functioning. Dr. Scheinfield works with children and adolescents to address issues related to school avoidance, social skill development, bullying, self-esteem, conflict management, and stress management. Through her approach, Dr. Scheinfield strives to help her clients build and maintain more effective coping strategies, problem solving skills, and self-advocacy skills, while learning to engage in self-monitoring and self-reflection. She also fosters emotional self-regulation, where she helps her clients learn to better manage their emotions and control their behavior. Dr. Scheinfield strongly believes in establishing a trusting therapeutic relationship with her clients, in which they feel accepted, safe, and supported.

On an academic level, Dr. Scheinfield assists her clients in developing more effective study strategies and organizational skills that are best suited to their learning style. Her clients serve as active participants in this process, and it is through their commitment and buy-in that these strategies are deemed appropriate. Dr. Scheinfield works with her clients to establish goals and continually refine strategies that will enable them to improve their work completion and overall academic success. She also assists parents with how to best support their child’s learning and/or emotional needs and how to implement behavior management strategies within the home setting.

Dr. Scheinfield conducts comprehensive psychological evaluations specifically tailored to each individual’s needs, assessing his/her intellectual functioning, memory and processing skills, visual-motor abilities, attention, executive functioning, academic achievement, social/emotional functioning, and adaptive skills. Additionally, she provides psychological assessments for college preparatory exams (e.g. ACT or SAT) and for adolescents transitioning from high school to their post-secondary education. She also offers consultative and advocacy services, where she works with parents and school personnel to help meet students’ needs. She can assist with developing specific academic and social/emotional goals and help create an intervention plan to improve students’ learning.

Prior to living in Atlanta, Dr. Scheinfield worked as a school psychologist at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. She served on numerous child study teams, where she helped develop and implement instructional and behavior management strategies for struggling students. She was a member of the schoolwide Response to Intervention (RtI) committee, in which she worked collaboratively to create interventions for general education students, while monitoring students’ progress and response to academic and behavioral supports.

Dr. Scheinfield has a wealth of knowledge and experience working with students who receive special education services or have Section 504 Plans, and she has participated extensively in the referral and evaluation process for special education eligibility. She is well-versed in special education law and helps consult about Individualized Education Plans (IEP), special education eligibility and services, and educational placement. In addition, she serves as a parent advocate in IEP meetings to ensure that appropriate educational programming, IEP goals, interventions, and accommodations are granted.

Dr. Scheinfield focuses on coordinating services for children and adolescents between their home and school environments. She works collaboratively with parents, classroom teachers, health professionals, and other service providers regarding children’s learning, behavioral, and social/emotional issues. Through her team-oriented approach, she aims to identify underlying factors that contribute to children’s learning and/or behavioral challenges, as well as orchestrate the services that are being provided. Dr. Scheinfield recognizes that a child or adolescent’s educational experience can be compounded by a multitude of factors, and she feels that it is crucial to understand the interplay between these various elements.

Dr. Scheinfield received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan. She obtained her Masters of Education in Educational Psychology and her Ph.D. in School Psychology from Loyola University Chicago. She later completed her postdoctoral fellowship while working at New Trier High School in Illinois. Dr. Scheinfield is certified as a school psychologist in Georgia and Illinois, and she is also a nationally certified school psychologist. She is currently seeking to apply for clinical licensure in the state of Georgia, and in the interim, she is supervised by a licensed psychologist.