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Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Mastin is a behavioral psychologist with more than 20 years of clinical experience in hospital settings alongside multidisciplinary specialties.
Specialties
About
Dr. Michelle Mastin is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of clinical experience within hospital settings integrated among multidisciplinary specialties. Dr. Mastin was trained primarily as a behavioral psychologist with extensive training in the behavioral and familial management of common childhood challenges including noncompliance, tantrum behavior, challenges with sleep, toileting, and eating. Dr. Mastin's training supported her eventual development of a specialty in the treatment of children and adolescents with challenges related to the gastroenterology tract. Challenges include matters involving feeding, rumination disorder, abdominal pain, encopresis and other disorders of the gut-brain interaction. Because children with GI challenges often have significant difficulties managing anxiety and stress, Dr. Mastin also specializes in the treatment of anxiety.
Dr. Mastin started her career as a general pediatric psychologist and then as the co-founder and director of the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital Intensive Feeding Program. After 8 years, she was asked to establish and direct the Children's of Alabama Intensive Feeding Program. During her 8-year tenure at Children's of Alabama, she was integrated not only with children with feeding disorders, but also children with GI disorders and children with chronic medical challenges. For the last 3 years, when she decided to transition from hospital-based services to private practice, she continued to work with Peyton Manning Children's Hospital Feeding Program while simultaneously working in private practice in effort to meet the needs of children, adolescents, and families with a more tailored approach to treatment. She has held clinical assistant professor appointments with the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and with the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University.
Dr. Mastin received her Bachelor's Degree from Emory University and pursued her doctoral education in Clinical Psychology at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Mastin completed her internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Background
Personal
Dr. Mastin lives in Sandy Springs with her husband of over 20 years, their three children, and the family dogs. You can usually find her watching her kids on a baseball field or basketball court, or exploring Atlanta with her family.
