Behavioral Health Clinic

Tara Borsh, Psy.D., is the Director of the Boys Town Nevada Behavioral Health Clinic in Las Vegas. She is a licensed psychologist specializing in individual and family therapy, and training for parents of children of all ages, from toddlers through adolescence. Dr. Borsh also provides psychological evaluations and community training and education on behavioral health issues.

Dr. Borsh received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Midwestern University in Downers Grove, Illinois. She completed her doctoral internship at Grand Prairie Services, a community-based center in the south suburbs of Chicago, and her post-doctoral fellowship at the Boys Town Center for Behavioral HealthSM in Omaha, Nebraska, specializing in behavioral pediatrics.

Dr. Borsh enjoys working with parenting issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, disruptive behaviors and elimination disorders.

Books ​by Dr. Tara Borsh

Great Days Ahead

Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders

Articles by Dr. Tara Borsh

A Brief (and Helpful) History of ADHD

Rachele Merk, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist at the Boys Town Nevada Behavioral Health Clinic in Las Vegas. She specializes in providing evidence-based care to children and families through individual and family therapy, and psychodiagnostic evaluations for learning, cognitive, and social-emotional concerns. Dr. Merk received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2017 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She completed an APA accredited internship at UCLA’s Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior within the OCD and Intensive Anxiety Track, focusing on providing care to disorders such as OCD, selective mutism and body focused repetitive behaviors (e.g. trichotillomania and Tourette’s). She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at UNLV’s the PRACTICE: A community mental health clinic, focusing on providing clinical supervision and training to clinicians, and evidence-based care through group and individual therapy for young adults, and children and their parents. Dr. Merk enjoys providing evidence-based treatment for anxiety, selective mutism, obsessive compulsive disorder and related body-focused repetitive behaviors (e.g. skin picking, Tourette’s and hairpulling (trichotillomania)), depression, parenting issues, disruptive behaviors and ADHD.

Articles by Dr. Rachele Merk

When Kids Don't Want to Go to School

OCD: When Rituals and Routines Get in the Way

Understanding Selective Mutism

Alyssa Gallagher, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist at Boys Town Nevada Behavioral Health Clinic in Las Vegas. She specializes in providing evidence-based care to children, adolescents and families, through individual and family therapy. She also provides psychodiagnostic evaluations for learning, cognitive and social-emotional concerns.

Dr. Gallagher received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2021 from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Anaheim, California. She completed an APA accredited internship focused on child and adolescent therapy at Frontier Health in Scott County, Virginia. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Boys Town Behavioral Health Clinic in Nevada, where she continued to focus on honing her therapeutic and psychodiagnostic skills. Dr. Gallagher’s clinical training has focused on providing services in low-income, rural and community mental health settings. She enjoys working with children, adolescents and families struggling with managing anxiety, interpersonal difficulties, depression, assertiveness, ADHD behaviors, disruptive behaviors, parenting issues, communication challenges and traumatic experiences.