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[quote=Anonymous]Hi, OP. Psychologist here.. I moved out of the DC area a couple of years ago and so did most of my referral sources.

I highly recommend looking at universities that have doctoral programs in clinical and/or counseling psychology. These are students working on their doctorates; they are really highly supervised. They also are up to date on the most recent research and don't typically do whatever strikes their fancy-- they typically go by what research says. For social anxiety you absolutely should be looking at cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) which can take many forms. They may call it social skills training, or exposure, or graded exposure, but its all CBT. Just say, "I'm looking for CBT for social anxiety for my XX year old son." They usually operate on a sliding scale and most of my clients paid $0, the max was $80/session (granted this was ~5 years ago). Off the top of my head I know that these universities have doctoral programs. Try googling university name + psychology clinic:

University of Maryland College Park (and actually UM -Baltimore County too)
Catholic University
American University
George Washington University 
George Mason University
James Madison University 
Gallaudet University
(I generally advise against The Chicago School or Argosy University... Howard *counseling* has unimpressive outcomes too but Howard *clinical* may be okay)

I hope this helps!

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