Dr. Kathryn Leskis is a licensed clinical psychologist, clinical director of INBAL, and clinical assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also an adjunct assistant professor in the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, and provides lectures on psychological testing to medical students during their third or fourth year psychiatry clerkship.

A native of Champaign, Dr. Leskis graduated from Central High School in 1995. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1998, followed by a doctorate in clinical community psychology with a minor in family law and policy in 2005 from Illinois. Dr. Leskis completed a pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine, Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating, she worked as a consulting psychologist in the Bureau of Behavioral Health and Medicine, Department of Children and Families, for the State of Connecticut and adjunct faculty at Quinnipiac University for two years before returning to Champaign. Dr. Leskis worked as a clinical psychologist with Carle health system for 11 years, specializing in diagnostic clarification and psychological testing.