Adolescent Treatment Program

Program Leaders

Laurel L. Williams, DO
Program Director, Adolescent Treatment Program, The Menninger Clinic; Assistant Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; Assistant Director of Residency Training, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine; Child, Adolescent, and Family Clinic Director, Baylor; faculty member, Ben Taub KIDS Outpatient Clinic

Dr. Williams works with a team of professionals who treat adolescent patients who are experiencing moderate to severe behavior, psychiatric, chemical dependency and coexisting disorders.

Dr. Williams received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft. Worth, TX, and her certification in general psychiatry from Baylor College of Medicine, where she also completed a child and adolescent fellowship; additionally she completed a psychodynamic fellowship through the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Association.

She was named the Baylor Child Fellowship Chief for the 2003-2004 academic year and was awarded the GlaxcoSmithKline APA Fellowship in 2001, the Baylor Psychiatry Research Grant in 2002, and the William P. Moore, M.D. and Roy N. Aruffo, MD Resident Award of Excellence in 2004.

She writes and presents on a host of psychiatric topics, as well as teaches.

Dr. Williams joined Menninger in 2008. Her primary areas of interest include family and individual therapies for children and adolescents with affective and anxiety disorders and the building of clinical research protocols to examine their efficacy.

Norma Clarke, MD
Medical director, Adolescent Treatment Program, The Menninger Clinic; Assistant professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Clarke manages the medication and medical needs of adolescent patients, ages 12 to 17, in the Adolescent Treatment Program who are experiencing moderate to severe behavior, psychiatric, chemical dependency and coexisting disorders.

Board certified in psychiatry and neurology, Dr. Clarke has had extensive experience treating both adults and adolescents with psychotropic medication. She is particularly interested in medications for treating patients with psychotic and bipolar disorders.

In the beginning of her medical career, she did two years of a general surgical residency at Harlem Hospital Medical Center, New York. She was chief resident in psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, and completed her child psychiatry fellowship at The Menninger Clinic’s Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences in 1990.

Dr. Clarke began her psychiatric practice as the medical director of the Adolescent Residential Programme for Charter Westbrook Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, and as director of Acute Services at West End Behavioral Health Care, Richmond, Virginia, before joining The Menninger Clinic staff in 1999. In 2003 she relocated with The Clinic from Topeka to Houston.