Justyna Piasecka, MD

Justyna Piasecka, MD, a board-certified adult, adolescent, and child psychiatrist, is the unit chief of the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities inpatient unit and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Piasecka earned her medical degree at the Alpert Medical School and completed a combined residency, fellowship, and research program in integrated adult and child adolescent psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven. She was a chief resident of the program from 2015 to 2016.

She is certified in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Piasecka has clinical training in cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety in autism and for anger and aggression in children and adolescents, as well as mentalization-based treatment for families and parent management training.

She has contributed to the professional literature through peer-reviewed journal articles and a book chapter on emotion regulation and anger management in Tourette Syndrome. She is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.