Carla Smith Stover, PhD

Carla Smith Stover, PhD, is a mental health specialist focusing on anxiety, adjustment disorder, acute stress disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She offers solution-focused brief therapy and emotionally focused therapy, including counseling for individuals dealing with grief, loss, and bereavement.

Stover's research explores intimate partner violence, father-child interactions, and trauma and adverse childhood experiences. Her work highlights the effects of negative experiences on children's health and well-being, and the potential consequences of early life adversity on fathers' parenting abilities. She also investigates co-parenting interventions and family outcomes.

In recognition of her work, Stover has received the Loan Repayment Award and Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award. Her research has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Institute on Aging.

Stover is a professor at the Yale Child Study Center.