Hannah C. Herc, PhD

Hannah C. Herc, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and serves as the division director of the Brown University Health Adult Partial Hospital Program.

Dr. Herc earned her doctorate degree in clinical psychology from the University of Toledo and completed her residency at the Medical College of Georgia/Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center Consortium with a focus on post-traumatic stress and related disorders, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and mindfulness- and acceptance-based practices. She also holds a master’s degree in mental health research from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, where her research focused on mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches.

Following her postdoctoral fellowship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she received specialized training in ACT at the partial program, Herc joined the program as a staff psychologist. She quickly advanced to program co-director and now serves as division director. She is dedicated to advancing high-quality, evidence-based mental health care while supporting the growth and well-being of the clinicians who provide it.

In her clinical work, Dr. Herc takes a process-based approach to treatment, with a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced trauma. She integrates ACT and other third-wave behavioral therapies to help individuals creatively and compassionately align treatment with their personal values and build meaningful lives.

Through her research, Dr. Herc aims to provide empirical support for the use of ACT across a range of clinical presentations and to better understand mechanisms of change in mindfulness- and acceptance-based practices.

She is a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.