Clinicians

Biography

I earned my PsyD in clinical psychology at Long Island University Post, in an APA-accredited program, and completed my doctoral internship at Southwest Behavioral and Health Services, providing individual, family and group therapy in a high school. I then joined the Parnes Clinic at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology as a postdoctoral fellow and became its Assistant Director and a Clinical Assistant Professor, responsible for a training clinic in which more than 100 therapists saw more than 600 patients, and for supervising doctoral interns. At Ferkauf I taught Lifespan Psychopathology and a course in group therapy to doctoral students.

I now direct clinical training for an APPIC-member doctoral internship in health service psychology, and the Inzinna Research Lab, which studies psychotherapy process and outcome, implementation, telehealth and access to care.

Dialectical behavior therapy has been part of my training from the start: five years as a research assistant in a DBT research lab at Long Island University, and a dissertation on teaching clinicians DBT skills for adolescents.

My work with young people began early. At The Quad Preparatory School I provided individual, group and milieu therapy and executive-functioning coaching to twice-exceptional students, and at NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island I worked with adults, children, families and couples in inpatient and intensive outpatient settings. Before graduate school I was a head swim coach and pool director, and I grew up playing baseball.