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Licensed and Board-Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychologist · Co-Founder
Dr. Hoffenberg is a board-certified clinical child and adolescent psychologist and co-founder of Atlanta Children's Center. She specializes in diagnostic assessment from toddlerhood through adolescence.
Expertise
About
Dr. Hoffenberg has more than 20 years of experience working with children and families, and she genuinely loves getting to know children and helping parents better understand who their child is and what they need. She works with families to support both the child and the family as thoughtfully as possible.
She has extensive expertise in child development and disorders of childhood, with particular expertise in evaluating school-aged children and adolescents for ADHD and learning disabilities, as well as assessing infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with developmental concerns. Her work also includes helping children and families with behavioral difficulties, anxiety, social challenges, and other emotional and developmental concerns that may be affecting a child at home or at school.
Dr. Hoffenberg is genuinely curious about what makes each child who they are. She looks beyond test scores to understand how a child's strengths, challenges, personality, experiences, and environment all fit together. She especially enjoys connecting with a child, helping them feel comfortable, and getting to see the strengths and personality that may not always come through on paper. Whether a child is working much harder than expected to keep up at school, or a parent or teacher simply has the sense that something is not clicking, her goal is to help make sense of what is going on and what will actually help.
Before co-founding Atlanta Children's Center in 2018, Dr. Hoffenberg spent 11 years at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Marcus Autism Center. During that time, she conducted diagnostic assessments with more than 2,000 children, provided parent consultations and behavioral therapy, and directed the diagnostic training program, where she trained future psychologists and medical residents.
Dr. Hoffenberg does not see an evaluation as simply a way to arrive at a diagnosis. She sees it as an opportunity to understand the whole child, answer the questions that brought the family in, and give parents and teachers clarity and practical guidance about how to help. She wants families to leave feeling that their child is truly understood, with meaningful answers and a real sense of how to best support their child.
Background
Personal
Dr. Hoffenberg lives in Sandy Springs with her husband and three children, ages 12 to 18. With her oldest now in college, her family is adjusting to a new stage of life, which includes more trips to Texas to visit him. Much of her free time is spent cheering on her younger two at sporting events and other activities. She also enjoys watching college football, spending time with friends and family, and finding time for hiking, painting, and photography.
