Meet Our Team

Whitney LaForge is a social worker who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy for patients experiencing early psychosis.  She earned her master's degree in social work from Boston College.

Dr. Devanand Manoli (he/his) is a psychiatrist who specializes in caring for children and adolescents. With a background in neuroscience, he has expertise in understanding social behaviors in terms of the activity of the neural circuits that mediate social behavior, and in the context of psychiatric illness.

In his research, Manoli seeks to understand social attachment, using molecular and genetic approaches to study its neural basis throughout development and in the context of environmental and genetic factors that are associated with neuropsychiatric disorders.

Chris Perry (she/hers) is a marriage and family therapist who provides individual and group therapy to patients who are experiencing or at risk for psychosis and to her patients' families. She offers information, assessments and recommendations to families as well as to other care providers interested in early psychosis treatment.

Dr. Vikaas S. Sohal (he/his) is a psychiatrist who provides after-hours care for patients needing medication management for a variety of psychiatric conditions. He also supervises medical residents in a clinic for patients with early psychosis.

Dr. Sohal directs a neuroscience laboratory that investigates the brain circuits involved in psychiatric disorders.