Dr. Amy Elizabeth West is a renowned clinical psychologist with an outstanding international career in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She has held a leadership position at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), where she has directed the Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Internship. Here, her work has focused on providing evidence-based psychosocial treatments, with a special focus on vulnerable and underserved populations, such as ethnic minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged families. 

Likewise, throughout her career, she has led innovative research on Mood and Anxiety Disorders in children, the prevention of Suicidal Behavior and Perinatal Mental Health, obtaining funding from prestigious institutions, such as the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). 

Likewise, her integrative approach has been instrumental in developing treatments such as Child and Family Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CFF-CBT), known as RAINBOW therapy, which has been widely validated as an effective treatment for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, with manuals published by Oxford University Press in the “Treatments that Work” series. She has also been involved in research on Substance and Opioid Use Prevention in Native American and Alaska Native communities.

In addition to her work and research, Dr. Amy Elizabeth West has been an active personality in several professional organizations, holding leadership roles in the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, the Society for Prevention Research, and the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. In doing so, she aims to improve access to mental health care for vulnerable populations, establishing herself as an expert in her field.

• Director of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, United States
• Co-investigator and Director of the Implementation of Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques
• Psychologist and Researcher of the Community Mental Health Program at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
• Member of the Study on Prevention and Treatment of Opioid and Substance Use in Urban and Rural AIAN Tribal Communities in California at the University of Southern California
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
• Adolescent Medicine Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
• Clinical and Pediatric Child Psychology Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
• Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia
• B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University
• Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Member of: 
  
  • University of Southern California Interdisciplinary Center for Family Change