Meet our Psychologists
Patty Bardina, Ph.D. received her B.A. in Psychology at Pomona College and then completed a Master of Education in Educational Psychology at the University of Washington. For two years she worked at the Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle as a Pediatric Mental Health Specialist, providing parent training, consulting with schools, and teaching social skills classes for children on the autism spectrum and children with behavioral disorders. Dr. Bardina then received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington, during which she taught classes in psychological assessment, conducted forensic and psychological evaluations, and provided therapy to children, adolescents, and young adults. She completed her doctoral internship at the Stanford University Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Children's Health Council. Dr. Bardina then joined Morrissey-Compton Educational Center in 2004, as a postdoctoral fellow. She remained on the staff at Morrissey-Compton, continuing to provide diagnostic evaluations and therapy to children, adolescents, and young adults as a licensed clinical psychologist.
Janet Dafoe, Ph.D. completed a B.S. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Child Psychology at Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Dafoe then worked at the Children's Health Council from 1985 until 2005. She served as: staff psychologist; diagnostician on the young child, school-age and adolescent teams; and conducted complex evaluations of adolescents. Her specialty areas include attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Asperger's syndrome, school-related issues and special education law for parents, school administrators, teachers, and probation officers. Dr. Dafoe has conducted numerous workshops on ADHD for school administrators, teachers and probation officers. She is on the steering committee of the Community Advisory Committee for Special Education in the Palo Alto School District and leads an ADHD support group for parents of Palo Alto students. She served on the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology for 15 years, on the Board of Directors of the Children's Center of the Stanford Community for three years and is currently President of the Board of Trustees of the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto.
Renee P. Pyle, Ph.D. received her doctorate in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara’s combined Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology. She completed her training at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Health Council (CHC) and remained at the CHC as a staff psychologist until 2008 when she joined Mosaic Child and Family Therapy Services, a local private practice. Dr. Pyle’s clinical work at the CHC included conducting multidisciplinary evaluations, therapy, parenting support, and social communication groups as part of the Infant/Young Child and Mental Health Departments. She also conducted developmental assessments through Packard Hospital’s Development and Behavior Unit. Dr. Pyle specializes in the evaluation and treatment of children with developmental delays, social, emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Both Dr. Pyle and Dr. Bardina have recently joined Community Gatepath to provide diagnostic evaluations, parent and teacher training, therapy, and social skills training and classes to our community.
