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

For over two decades, Rebecca Berman has treated adolescents and adults with anxiety-related issues and eating disorders in outpatient, intensive outpatient, day treatment, residential, and inpatient settings. Rebecca earned a dual Master’s Degree in Social Service / Law and Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Rebecca joins Anxiety Institute after fourteen years with the prestigious Renfrew Center where she served most recently as a Clinical Training Specialist. In that role, Rebecca was responsible for supervision, training, treatment, program development, and led Renfrew’s Trauma Informed Care initiative. Rebecca co-authored the groundbreaking treatment manual The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity – An Adaptation of the Unified Protocol, published by Oxford University Press in 2021. Rebecca specializes in anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, and neurodiversity and has a special interest in working with the transgender population. Rebecca is a nationally recognized speaker in Trauma, Eating Disorders, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Self-Injury, Neurodivergence, and Transdiagnostic Treatments.

In recent years, Rebecca has witnessed first-hand the overlap of anxiety, trauma and eating disorders in the adolescent, young adult, and adult populations. She is passionate about treating multiple disorders at once by understanding their maintaining mechanisms and the role of experiential avoidance. Rebecca has been motivated to research, develop, and implement cutting-edge transdiagnostic treatment practices using the unified protocol and cognitive processing therapy.

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