Dr. Heather Mann

Heather Mann, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist who brings a rare combination of clinical depth, assessment expertise, and genuine warmth to her work with children and families. With specialized training in child and adolescent mental health, Dr. Mann has spent her career working alongside some of the most complex and vulnerable young people in the region, and she brings that same thoughtfulness and skill to every evaluation she conducts at Kentlands Psychotherapy.

Dr. Mann’s Extensive Testing Expertise

As a testing psychologist, Dr. Mann understands that behind every referral question is a child who deserves to be seen clearly, and a family that deserves honest, actionable answers. She has completed hundreds of psychological assessment batteries across her career, working with children presenting with a wide range of concerns, including learning differences, emotional and behavioral challenges, ADHD, and complex trauma. She approaches each evaluation as a collaborative process, taking time to understand your child’s full history and to explain her findings in plain language that informs real decisions, whether at home, at school, or in treatment.

Dr. Mann’s Approach to Couples Therapy

If you and your partner keep having the same arguments, or at times stop talking altogether, the problem is often what’s going unsaid. Fears, insecurities, and pride can get in the way of the vulnerable openness that builds trust and security in a relationship. Informed by an Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy lens, Dr. Mann helps couples identify the assumptions and patterns that keep them stuck and to learn how to communicate in ways that are honest, kind, accountable, and productive. Whether you’re in crisis or just feeling disconnected, she’ll help you find your way back to each other.

Dr. Mann’s Approach to Family Therapy

Every family member, regardless of age, shapes the family’s culture. Each member contributes to how the family functions, and each has a role in making it work better for everyone.

Drawing heavily from Structural Family Therapy and DBT, Dr. Mann works with families to examine the communication habits and patterns that are creating strain, and then collaboratively helps members build more effective ways to connect and communicate.

She understands that when something isn’t working in your family, it can feel like everyone is pulling in different directions and no one knows how to turn things around. Dr. Mann helps families step back, see the bigger picture, and figure out where things are breaking down. Then she helps everyone build something better together: clearer communication, less friction, and better ways of being together where people feel supported, and everyone can thrive.

Dr. Mann’s Training and Background

Dr. Mann earned her Doctor of Psychology from Roosevelt University’s APA-accredited clinical psychology program, where she also completed her doctoral internship at the John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents (RICA), a Maryland Department of Health facility serving children and teens with significant emotional and behavioral needs. She returned to RICA as a licensed psychologist and has worked there ever since, conducting comprehensive psychological assessments, leading treatment planning, and most recently serving as the program’s Internship Training Director, overseeing the training of the next generation of psychologists.

Dr. Mann is also trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and has extensive experience with the intersection of emotion regulation, executive functioning, and academic performance. These are areas that frequently emerge in testing referrals for school-age children and adolescents.

Outside of her clinical work, Dr. Mann is deeply embedded in the Montgomery County community. She is active in her children’s school and has spent years mentoring others in the profession. She brings to Kentlands Psychotherapy the same values that guide our practice: rigor, compassion, and a commitment to serving families well.