Debbie Bonardi Ph.D

About DR. BONARDI

Dr. Debbie Bonardi is a licensed clinical psychologist with training and experience in neuropsychological assessment who has worked with children and families for over 25 years.  Dr. Bonardi’s interest in children and education began after graduating from U.C. Davis and teaching inner city children with Teach for America.  This experience shaped all of Dr. Bonardi’s future education and professional pursuits.  After receiving her doctoral degree in clinical psychology, Dr. Bonardi turned her interest to pediatric psychology and worked at Children’s Health Council and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital supporting medically fragile school children with related mental health, cognitive and educational needs.  Currently, Dr. Bonardi works in private practice evaluating and advocating for children with developmental, learning, social, emotional and general school related challenges.  Dr. Bonardi has worked with hundreds of schools and teachers, both private and public to implement change on behalf of students.

Dr. Bonardi approaches each assessment with the goal to bring understanding of how a child’s cognitive, academic and social emotional functioning impact their learning and overall well-being. Dr. Bonardi’s experience as a classroom teacher in conjunction with her extensive training and experience on multidisciplinary assessment teams, provides her with a wide lens to understand a child’s functioning.  Dr. Bonardi provides various types of evaluations ranging in scope and always individualized based on the questions to be answered.  Assessments are grounded in clinical observation, scientific knowledge and curious investigation with the goal to understand, empower and implement positive change.  It is Dr. Bonardi’s firm belief that our role as parents and teachers is to identify the strengths that each child possesses and to build upon them and to exploit them in the service of improving areas of weakness and optimizing growth.