About Us

Our mission is to remove barriers and unlock potential for families with learning and behavior challenges.

Kingsbury is a comprehensive psychology practice for the whole family. Our team of doctoral-level clinical psychologists and postdoctoral residents provides neuropsychological evaluations and therapy for children, adolescents, and adults across Silver Spring, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac, Takoma Park, and Washington, DC.

Every clinician at Kingsbury holds a doctoral degree in psychology. Our psychologists are deeply committed to doing this work the right way: comprehensive in scope, rigorous in practice, and honest with families about their assessment and conclusions. That means building real therapeutic relationships and using approaches that actually have evidence behind them — not whatever happens to be trending. And when evaluation is needed, it means providing thorough assessments that give families genuine answers rather than incomplete ones. Our clinicians take a collaborative approach — reviewing evaluation data as a team and thinking through therapy cases together — and coordinate directly with physicians, schools, and other providers to ensure we are all on the same page. 

The Kingsbury Wellness & Learning Group is built on a foundation of over 80 years of service to children and adults with learning and behavior challenges.

In 1938 Marion Kingsbury founded what was then called the Remedial Education Center to provide tutoring and diagnostic services to children and adults with learning challenges. When she retired, the organization was renamed “The Kingsbury Center.” Although Kingsbury began her work at a time when learning disabilities were generally unknown and almost always overlooked, her vision blossomed into a nationally recognized nonprofit that launched two schools, a master tutoring program, and an outpatient clinic. Marion Kingsbury’s legacy is that thousands of children and adults have achieved the most precious gift of reading and access to an education once unavailable to them.

In 2019 The Kingsbury Center announced that it would close operations due to financial hardship. Following that announcement, psychologists Elliott Conklin, Lauren Siegel, and Ann Rowe founded the Kingsbury Wellness & Learning Group to pick up the baton and carry forth the legacy and mission of Marion Kingsbury.  

We founded the Kingsbury Wellness & Learning Group as a nonprofit because we believe everyone should have access to high quality, comprehensive psychological services. Neuropsychological evaluations, therapy, and school consultation can unlock educational support, build resilience, and open doors to opportunities that would otherwise remain closed. We know these services are often out of reach due to their high cost — and we built our organization specifically to change that.

Our model is straightforward: we provide therapy and testing at market rates for families with the resources to pay, and we use that revenue to fund programs for families who cannot. We also receive support from private donors and foundations who share our values.

Currently, our free and reduced-fee services are delivered through partnerships with other nonprofit organizations. In our school partnerships, we coordinate with schools to share costs so that families can receive services at no charge. As Kingsbury grows, we are actively pursuing new partnerships to reach more families in the DC metro area.

We invite you to join our community of donors and make a gift toward more equitable access to psychological care.