She received her BS in psychology from Duke University and her MA and PhD in clinical psychology from Boston University. She completed a predoctoral internship and a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown Medical School. Dr. Boisseau's research background is in anxiety, obsessive-compulsive spectrum, and eating disorders, with a focus on examining underlying diatheses both within and across traditional diagnostic categories. She is coauthor of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders.