Psychologist
Esme Shaller is a psychologist at UCSF's Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute's Young Adult and Family Center. She specializes in treating acute and multi-stressed adolescents who she has worked with as inpatients, in residential care and at alternative high schools. Shaller's expertise includes cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapy, structural family therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy and theories of psychotherapy integration.
Shaller received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Subsequently, she completed her psychology internship at the Zucker Hillside Hospital at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Kaiser Permanente in South San Francisco. She is an assistant clinical professor of psychology at UCSF's Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute.
