Tracy Fehrenbach, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago where she serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Child Trauma Assessment and Service Planning.
For the past 15 years, Dr. Fehrenbach has specialized in research, evaluation and clinical work with traumatized populations, including adolescents in the juvenile justice system and children and adults impacted by interpersonal traumas such as domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented nationally and internationally on these topics. She has taught a courses on interpersonal trauma across the lifespan for graduate students and medical students at Northwestern University for which she named teacher of the year.
Dr. Fehrenbach has over 10 years of experience in the evaluation of intervention packages meant to decrease interpersonal violence and trauma symptoms and has recently been the primary investigator on four separate projects, including the evaluation of two diversion programs for justice-involved youth, one in Illinois and one in Mexico, as well as two projects examining the impact of empirically-based treatments for trauma in youth. Dr. Fehrenbach is an active member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the American Psychological Association and the American Professional Society for the Abuse of Children. Dr. Fehrenbach is fluent in Spanish and has a particular interest making violence prevention and trauma interventions more culturally sensitive and more readily accessible to traditionally underserved populations.