Lights, Camera, Emotions: A Unified Protocol Approach to Building Emotional Mastery Through Media & Music

Dr. Julianne Wilner (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist at McLean Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. She received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Boston University, completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and her post-doctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Currently. she works in the Child and Adolescent Division at McLean Hospital, including the Pediatric Mood, Imaging, and Neurodevelopment Lab and the 3East Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy Continuum. Dr. Wilner’s research focuses on improving care for adolescents and young adults at risk for suicide through the evaluation of mechanism-driven, transdiagnostic interventions. She has received NIH funding for her work using multimodal tools to better understand how online interpersonal behavior mechanisms contribute to suicide risk in adolescents. She has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, many focused on the Unified Protocol (UP) and related transdiagnostic treatments. She is a Certified Therapist and Trainer with the Unified Protocol Institute and has provided training, supervision, and consultation to hundreds of clinicians in the UP and UP-informed care. In her clinical work, she specializes in using the UP and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for adolescents and adults struggling with anxiety, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

BS, University of Delaware  //  MSS, MLSP, Bryn Mawr College

Rebecca Berman (she/her) is the Clinical Director of Anxiety Institute in McLean, Virginia, and has more than two decades of experience treating adolescents and adults across outpatient, intensive outpatient, day treatment, residential, and inpatient levels of care. She specializes in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders and ARFID, and trauma, with particular expertise in working with neurodivergent individuals.

Rebecca earned dual master’s degrees in Social Service and Law & Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She is a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist and Approved Consultant (CEDS-C), a Certified Therapist and Expert Trainer with the Unified Protocol Institute, and a Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor in Virginia and Maryland.

At Anxiety Institute, Rebecca provides clinical leadership, supervision, consultation, and program development while supporting the delivery of evidence-based care for complex anxiety and related disorders. Her clinical approach integrates Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP), and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), with an emphasis on understanding the processes that maintain symptoms across diagnoses and adapting treatment to the individual.

Prior to joining Anxiety Institute in 2023, Rebecca spent 14 years at The Renfrew Center, where she held clinical and training leadership roles and most recently served as a Clinical Training Specialist. Her work included clinician training and supervision, treatment and program development, and leadership of Renfrew’s Trauma-Informed Care initiative. She co-authored The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity: An Adaptation of the Unified Protocol, published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Rebecca is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer and regularly presents on anxiety and OCD, exposure-based treatment, eating disorders and ARFID, and transdiagnostic approaches to care. She provides supervision and consultation to clinicians across disciplines and is passionate about helping clinicians deliver evidence-based care in ways that are individualized, collaborative, and neuroaffirming.

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