About me

I’m Dr. Margaret Crane, a licensed child psychologist and an Implementation Science Fellow at Brown University. I offer therapy, clinical consultation, and implementation consultation.

I chose the name Beacon Consultation due to my love of sailing. Like a beacon, I aim to give my clients hope and guide them to solutions that work for them.

  • I use strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people thrive. I believe each client is the expert on themselves, and I collaborate with families to tailor evidence-based strategies to each client. I specialize in helping families of children with anxiety, behavioral, attention, and sleep difficulties. I have advanced training in cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention, parent management training (the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program), parent coaching for children with anxiety and OCD (SPACE), and sleep training for children under age 5.

  • I provide trainings and consultation on applying implementation science methods to research and implementation practice. I have a particular interest in helping startups, including digital health companies, use implementation science in their work. 

    My implementation research examines methods to increase access to effective treatments for mental health. I approach this by considering how to increase the supply of evidence-based treatments through the combination of business models to disseminate and policies to fund these programs, as well as how to increase patient demand of mental evidence-based treatments. I use mixed (qualitative and quantitive) methods in my work. My research has been funded by the NIMH, and I have published over 30 peer reviewed journal articles. 

Education/Training

I received my bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Temple University. I completed a predoctoral internship at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine, and I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University. I trained at clinics including the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Temple University, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Brown University.

Artwork

Thanks to my mother, Carol Snow, for the beautiful artwork on this website.