Anne Murphy, PhD

Anne Murphy, PhD, is Clinical Director of Trauma Services and Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI) at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Professor, Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Murphy’s area of expertise includes the impact of trauma on relationships, primarily in the early years of life. Her work focuses on parent, child and relationship trauma throughout the lifespan. She is the model developer of GABI, which works with parents and their birth through three-year-old children. The GABI model was expanded to 6 additional sites across all five boroughs with funding from NYC Administration for Children’s Services, Division of Prevention Services. The GABI program was added to the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare as a program with promising research in 2024.Dr. Murphy earned her Doctor of Philosophy at Fordham University in 2004. She completed the …Story Stem Assessment Profile Training at the Anna Freud Center in London, England, in 2007 and completed a one-year fellowship at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education at the New York University School of Medicine in 2012. Dr. Murphy’s research focuses on the impact of GABI in improving child social-emotional development, reducing parental depression and social isolation and increasing attachment security in the parent-child attachment relationship. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on many funded research projects, and she has given numerous invited presentations, both nationally and internationally. Dr. Murphy’s work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters and review articles, and she has shared her work through abstracts and poster presentations. Dr. Murphy is a member of the International Society to Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect, the American Psychological Association and Zero to Three. In 2024, she received the Excellence in Health Care Award for Quality Improvement Champions from the United Hospital Fund.