Get to Know Dr. Prato

Dr. Prato has spent her career helping couples, families, children, and adolescents find a greater sense of connectivity and happiness. She supports her clients in making changes in their lives, with a specific emphasis on helping people to build and strengthen their relationships, with both family and with the outside world.

Dr. Prato’s Professional History

As a 2014 graduate of Chestnut Hill College’s Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Prato specialized in Marriage and Family Therapy. She spent time both as a student and as a young professional working with children, adolescents, and adults with severe challenging behaviors and significant developmental deficits. Throughout her time as a student and early career professional, this included work in all levels of care, from outpatient to inpatient, intensive in-home services, and acute partial care.

With her passion being that of supporting couples and families, Dr. Prato found her occupational home at Main Line Counseling Partners in 2016. This fantastic group of professionals called Dr. Prato a colleague for nearly 10 years, where she worked exclusively with couples, families, and children/adolescents. During her tenure at this location, Dr. Prato developed a student training program, while also obtaining Board Certification in Couple and Family Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology.

In the fall of 2025, Dr. Prato began her journey in teaching as an Adjunct Professor at Chestnut Hill College. Realizing how much she loved this role, she has since transitioned into a full-time Associate Professor position at the same institution, while maintaining the clinical activities that are so dear to her heart. This would shift her role, and ultimately lead to her current status as a full time Associate Professor at Chestnut Hill College. Her specialization in marriage and family therapy is one she shares each semester with her students, while also continuing to work with that same population in her current private practice.

Dr. Prato’s Approach to Therapy

Dr. Prato tends to utilize an approach to treatment that is rooted in systemic healing. This means that she typically views individuals and their families as a part of a larger network of relationships and social systemics. Whether you are coming for work on your own, or you bring your family members with you, Dr. Prato recognizes the complexity of those interconnected relationships. Sometimes this means that treatment will target many aspects of that system (as in couples’ or family therapy), and sometimes it means that treatment will focus on how you personally manage, respond, and heal from within those systems of which you are a part.

In addition to a systemic approach to treatment, Dr. Prato also has training in The Gottman Method of Couples’ Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. You will often find Dr. Prato integrating aspects of these models of treatment into her approach as well.

More Specifics

    • Licensed Psychologist in the State of Pennsylvania (PS017918)

    • Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (Mobility # 4947)

    • Board Certified in Couple and Family Psychology (Certification # 10373)

  • Dr. Prato integrates the use of several treatment modalities into her work, including the following:

    • The Gottman Method of Couples’ Therapy

    • Emotionally Focused Therapy

    • Dialectical Behavior Therapy

    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

    • Pennsylvania Psychological Association

      • Currently serving a role as President for the 2026 - 2027 Fiscal Year

    • American Psychological Association

    • Philadelphia Area Couple & Family Psychology

    • Relationship Distress (marital, familial, etc.)

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • ADHD

    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

    • Autism Spectrum Disorders