Dr. Rachele Merk

​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 hair pulling (trichotillomania)), depression, parenting issues, disruptive behaviors and ADHD.

Featured Content from Rachele Merk

• The reasons children are reluctant to go to school vary.
• OCD: When Rituals and Routines Get in the Way
• Understanding Selective Mutism