About Dr. Hirschberg:

Dr. April Hirschberg received her MD from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She completed her residency in adult psychiatry at the MGH/ McLean Combined Psychiatry Program in 2006 and has since remained on staff in the MGH Department of Psychiatry first in the Center for Women’s Mental Health and later in the MGH Cancer Center. She is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has completed Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Certification with the MGH Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. Since 2018 she has been leading stress management and resiliency programs for individuals with cancer and those at high risk for cancer at MGH. She has also been offering similar resiliency group programs to frontline health care workers since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. She is board certified in Lifestyle Medicine through the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and is a certified Health and Well-being Coach. April lives in Acton with her husband and two kids.