"best effort- neurodynamic" tutoring & remediation approach applies strategies using cognitive-behaviorally-informed psychotherapeutic methods to challenge defeatism, habits associated w information-processing, short- and long-term retention and delayed retrieval problems, faulty concentration, or sensori-motor integration difficulties, whether derived from CVA (cerebrovascular accident (stroke)), head trauma, developmental learning disorder combined with mood or conduct dysregulation and low motivation, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis (MS), vascular and/or mild Alzheimer neurodegenerative dementing processes, post-encephalitis or following other nervous system infections, such as meningitis, middle-age & sixties to seventies (young elderly) experiencing mild cognitive and decision-making/memory decline. Interactive licensed psychologist, patient yet outcome-oriented provides homework and class assignments tutoring, organizing and prioritizing notes and text materials to improve study skills, facilitating self-monitoring tactics, with an emphasis upon increasing attention-concentration and retaining new input, concise goal-setting, and error screening recognition. Patient, attentive, humorously encouraging, to assist children from age 6 through 14 or young adults and middle-aged to elderly that could fortify processing rate, specific attentional functions, flexibility, memory reserve, reasoning, visuospatial analytic skills, and perceptuo-motor coordination, through graphic, tabular, and coded techniques for encoding learned information that is influenced by methods for disputing defeatist, obsolete self-attributions through a cognitive-behavioral perspective focus, provided by a nys licensed psychologist, in a midtwon east private practice. psychoanalytic institute postdoctorate trained, clinical psychologist with strong neurosciences (brain-mind connectionism) background and orientation, former college adjunct instructor in psychology and anatomy, bronx hs of science early admission alumnae. hourly sessions in 2-3 hour blocks. Located in east midtown manhattan. offer routine and as needed consultation to teachers, physicians, vocational guidance, social work, and ancillary professionals. my objective is to enhance existing capabilities and dispel anxious low confidence that may reinforce learning and memory shortcomings.
call for swift evening/weekend appointment, convenient to your work, school, or family's schedule, between 2:30 PM-10:00 PM mon-fri, 2:30-6:00 PM sat/sunday. evening, after work and weekend afternoons are welcome.
STAFF PSYCHOLOGIST * SUPERVISING PSYCHOLOGIST * NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST
Extensive experience in provision of psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and neuropsychological/ psychodiagnostic assessment, to facilitate psychological services, training, and research initiatives toward enhancing psychological adaptation of individuals in the process of adjusting to treatment in primary care settings.
Psychologist experienced in the evaluation and remediation of neurocognitive deficits in adults/children with neuropathology and comorbid behavioral disorders, with the capability of adapting assessment and treatment techniques that are informed by research innovations, for the purpose of enhancing mental health services and supplementing didactic supervision of psychology staff/trainees.
Expertise in interviewing, psychometric/psychodiagnostic testing and cognitive-behavioral treatment of individuals with mental retardation and psychopathology.
Familiar with treatment of substance abuse and dependence.
Strong background in preclinical and clinical research design, statistical analyses, and publication.
Adept in identifying psychodynamic/neuropsychological strengths and deficits.
WORK EXPERIENCE
October, 2007 to Comprehensive Center for Rehabilitation New York, NY
Present Counseling Psychologist (Part-time)
Staff psychologist in a multidisciplinary evaluation and remediation group integrated to a school-based, community-conscious clinic designated as a Board of Education resource for providing comprehensive speech-language, physical, occupational, and psychological counseling services for children of preschool through primary school age and adolescents identified with autism, autistic spectrum disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and specific development learning delays, whose social-emotional adjustment difficulties are identified as deterring academic skill acquisition and peer cohesion. Serve as one of the psychology members of this multifaceted team by: providing play and expressive psychotherapy that incorporates cognitive-behavioral concepts and methods, including positive reinforcement contingency management of distractible and disruptive-inappropriate reactivity, combined with strategies that are based on psychodynamic clarification of drive / and relational / structural thought, as well as identifying assets and weaknesses, then implementing supportive interventions to improve patterns of parent-child interaction. Offer therapeutic support for families’ needs, psychoeducation with respect to diagnostic differential for children, and referrals to schools, recreation programs, and medical specialists for the purpose of targeting a patient’s particular constellation of neurodevelopmental impairments.
January, 1992 to Independent practice, clinical psychology / neuropsychology New York, NY
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