About Us

Founded by Dr. Khanna, a nationally recognized expert in youth anxiety and OCD, the OCD & Anxiety Institute is both a clinical practice and an innovation hub. The Institute integrates clinical excellence with scientific innovation, offering therapy, education, and professional training grounded in rigorous research and designed to advance the standard of care globally.



Dr. Muniya Khanna

Dr. Muniya Khanna

Director, Clinical Psychologist

muniya@muniyakhannaphd.com

Dr. Khanna is a renowned clinical psychologist and researcher specializing in child and adolescent anxiety and OCD. She is Founder and Director of the OCD & Anxiety Institute which is both a clinical and innovation hub for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Her significant research contributions have established the evidence base for cognitive behavioral treatment for youth anxiety and OCD worldwide.

She is co-author with Dr. Phil Kendall, of The CAT Project, the gold standard treatment for anxiety in adolescents. She and Dr. Kendall also developed the first evidence-based e-learning program for child anxiety, Camp Cope-A-Lot, and its companion parent-training e-learning program, Child Anxiety Tales. Most recently, they published CATS, the group CBT treatment for anxiety in schools.

Dr. Khanna has previously served as Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine. She has been a contributor and Co-Investigator on some of the most important research in the field of child anxiety in the last 15 years, including the Child and Adolescent Multimodal Study (CAMS; Walkup et al., 2008), Pediatric OCD Treatment Study (POTS II; Franklin et al. 2011), and Family-based Treatment of Early Childhood OCD (POTS Jr.; Freeman et al., 2014) trials.

On weekends you’ll find Muniya at the squash courts cheering on her kids, Ishani (19) and Sammy (15) and planning family adventures with her incredibly smart and funny husband and biggest supporter, Vijay.

Check out Dr. Khanna's partner websites for more resources for helping children with anxiety:

Selected Publications:

  1. Eiraldi, R., Lawson, G.M., Glick, H.A. et al. Implementation fidelity, student outcomes, and cost-effectiveness of train-the-trainer strategies for Masters-level therapists in urban schools: results from a cluster randomized trial. Implementation Sci 19, 4 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-023-01333-9
  2. Eiraldi, R., Comly, R., Goldstein, J. et al. Development of an Online Training Platform and Implementation Strategy for School-Based Mental Health Professionals in Rural Elementary Schools: A Mixed-Methods Study. School Mental Health 15, 692–709 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09582-1
  3. Khanna, M.S., Carper, M.M., Harris, M.S., Kendall, P.C. (2017). Web-based parent-training for parents of youth with impairment from anxiety. Evidence-based Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 2, 43-53.
  4. Eiraldi, R., Khanna, M., Jawad, A.F., Fishman, J. et al. (2016). A hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial of group CBT for anxiety in urban schools: rationale, design, and methods. Implementation science, 11:92.
  5. Freeman, J., Sapyta, J., Garcia, A., Compton, S., Khanna, M., Flessner, C., Fitzgerald, D., Mauro, C., Dingfelder, R., Benito, K., Harrison, J., Curry, J., Foa, E., March, J., Moore, P., Franklin, M. (2014). Family based treatment of early childhood OCD: The Pediatric OCD Treatment Study Junior (POTS Jr.) Randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Association. Published online April 23, 2014. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.170. Retrieved from: http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1861509
  6. Franklin, M., Sapyta, J., Freeman, J., Khanna, M., Compton, S., Almirall, D., Moore, P., Choate-Summers, M., Garcia, A., Foa, E., March, J. (2011). Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Augmentation of Pharmacotherapy in Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The Pediatric OCD Treatment Study II (POTS II) Randomized, Controlled Trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 306(11):1224-32. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.1344.
  7. Khanna, M.S. & Kendall, P.C. (2010). Computer-assisted cognitive-behavioral therapy for child anxiety: Results of a randomized clinical trial, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78(5): 737-745. doi: 10.1037/a0019739
  8. Khanna, M.S., & Kendall, P.C. (2008). Computer Assisted CBT for Child Anxiety: Development of the Coping Cat CD Rom. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, Special Issue, 15: 159-165. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2008.02.002

For full citation list visit: Dr. Khanna's Google Scholar Profile

Books and Other Media:

  1. Khanna, M.S., Eiraldi, R., & Kendall, P.C. (2025). CATS: CBT for Anxiety Treatment in Schools (K-8) Groups. Workbook Publishing. ISBN: 979-8-9925684-0-0
  2. Khanna & Kendall (2021). The Resilience Recipe. New Harbinger press.
  3. Khanna, M.S. and Ledley, D. (2018). The Worry Workbook for Kids. New Harbinger Press. San Francisco: CA.
  4. Kendall, P.C., Choudhury [Khanna], M.S., Hudson, J.L., & Webb, A. (2002). The C.A.T. Project Manual: Manual for the Individual Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders. Ardmore, PA: Workbook Publishing Inc. ISBN: 978-1-888805-18-5
  5. Kendall, P.C. & Khanna, M.S. (2008). Camp Cope-A-Lot: The Coping Cat DVD [DVD]. Ardmore, PA: Workbook Publishing Inc. ISBN: 978-1-888805-32-1
  6. Kendall, P.C. & Khanna, M.S. (2008). CBT4CBT: Computer-Based Training to become a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist [DVD]. Ardmore, PA: Workbook Publishing Inc. ISBN 978-1-888805-34-5
  7. Kendall, P.C. & Khanna, M.S. (2014). Child Anxiety Tales: Web-based Parent-Training for Parents of Anxious Youth. [eLearning Program]. Retrieved 6/2/2015 from: www.CopingCatParents.com