Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Masters Program 2012-2013
Bornali Basu, Ph.D.Bornali Basu is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in mind-body based psychotherapy. She received her B.A. in psychology from Mount Holyoke College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.A. in developmental psychology from Teachers College, and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Derner Institute at Adelphi University. Dr. Basu completed her internship at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, and a post-doctoral fellowship in cardiac psychology at the NYU School of Medicine. She spent eight years as a senior staff psychologist at Bellevue Hospital where she founded, and was the director of the Mind-Body Program, a group based outpatient wellness service for adults living with chronic illness.
Bornali Basu is currently in private practice in NYC, and maintains a clinical affiliation as well as supervisory responsibilities at Bellevue/NYU School of Medicine. She is an adjunct assistant professor for the clinical psychology program at Teachers College where she teaches, and supervises graduate students. Dr. Basu frequently presents lectures and workshops at community, corporate and academic venues, and has presented at conferences. She is involved with NYSPA’s ongoing outreach and public education efforts related to mind-body wellness.
Email: bb2434@tc.columbia.edu
Susan Bodnar, Ph.D. Email: susanbodnarphd@gmail.com
Ted Dimon, Ph.D.Dr. Theodore (Ted) Dimon is the founder and director of The Dimon Institute in New York City. The Institute is based on Dr. Dimon’s pioneering work in a new field – christened Neurodynamics - the study of the human mental and physical ‘operating system’ as a holistic entity and how it works in activity. Based on a multi-disciplinary approach that includes work in neuroscience, anatomy, evolution, physiology, psychology, philosophy and mindfulness, Dimon’s work provides a groundbreaking view of human functioning and behavior leading to new foundational principles applicable in the fields of health, education, and child development. Dr. Dimon recently talked about the scope of his field at TC’s Health, Behavior and Society Colloquium and this can be viewed on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v_X1KqSf30
Dr. Dimon received both master’s and doctorate degrees in education from Harvard University and is an internationally renowned teacher of mind/body disciplines. He has written five books including Anatomy of the Moving Body, The Body in Motion, Your Body, Your Voice, The Elements of Skill, and The Undivided Self. He lectures internationally and also runs a training program for students and teachers of Neurodynamics at The Dimon Insti-tute. More information about Dr. Dimon’s work and The Dimon Institute can be found on the website: www.dimoninstitute.org
Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Ph.D.I teach courses in research methods in the Clinical Psychology MA program. I received my doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2010 from the department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. Aside from being on the adjunct faculty at Teachers College, I am an Assistant Professor in the NYU Department of Psychiatry, PTSD Research Program.
I research patterns of adaptation in response to potentially traumatic events as well as common stressful life events including bereavement, childbirth, and unemployment. My work explores biological factors such as the stress-hormonal milieu to broad social factors such as national unemployment rates in an attempt to better understand what impacts common vs. maladaptive patterns of adaptation. Website: http://isaacgalatzerlevy.
Email:isaac.gl@gmail.com
Robin Gay, Ph.D.Dr. Robin Gay is a Senior Psychologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center and faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and within their APA accredited Internship program where she works as a clinical supervisor of Interns and teaches didactics. Additionally she performs neurobehavioral evaluations of patients with brain injury, cognitive remediation, and assessment. She also provides psychotherapy to patients and their families.
She received her doctorate from the New School for Social Research. Her research focuses on gender and cognition and has been presented in conferences in the US and Europe and was published in the European Journal of Social Psychology. Her work has also been written up in the press and media in Miller-McCunne, the Wall Street Journal, CBS Sports, MTV on-line and WomenandHollywood. Other publications include work on attention and visual processing published in Consciousness and Cognition and articles for the NYSPA Notebook on the current state of psychology and insurance panels.
She currently serves on the Executive committee of the New York State Psychological Association. Prior to this she was the president of the Early Career Division, the first division of any state devoted solely to the needs of early career psychologists. She has advocated for the profession on the national level in Washington DC with state Senators and Legislators as the official NYSPA ECP delegate and was awarded the Sidney Orgel Award in recognition of her service and dedication to the field.
Email: robin.gay@gmail.com
Valery HazanovValery Hazanov is a current doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and member of Professor Farber's research lab as well as Professor Higgins' research lab in the psychology department at Columbia. Valery graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, earning a B.A. in psychology and interdisciplinary honors program in the humanities. He is currently a fellow at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a psychology extern at the St. Luke's Trauma Treatment Program. Previously he had worked at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, at a psychiatric inpatient unit at the Weil-Cornell medical college in White Plains, NY, and in a national psychosocial rehabilitation program of juvenile delinquents in Israel. His research interests include psychotherapy process, relational aspects of emotional experience and regulation, and contemporary psychoanalytic thought. He is the 2012 recipient of the White Institute Psychotherapy Case Presentation Award for his paper "The fear of doing nothing."
Email: vh2197@columbia.edu
Simone Hoermann, Ph.D.Email: sh@simonehoermann.com
Karen Hurley, Ph.D. She also conducted research funded by the National Cancer Institute on patients' decisions about prophylactic surgery, and other psychosocial issues related to inherited risk for cancer. She is now in private practice in NYC, with adjunct appointments at MSKCC and Teachers College, Columbia University. She frequently presents lectures, teleconferences and workshops to US and international audiences on psychosocial issues in hereditary cancer, including patient groups (FORCE-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, Bright Pink, Young Survivor Coalition), professional societies (the International Psycho-Oncology Society, the National Society of Genetic Counselors, the National Consortium of Breast Centers) and healthcare facilities (City of Hope, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Vermont Cancer Center). She serves on several national advisory boards for high risk individuals, including FORCE, Bright Pink, the Cancer Support Community's M.A.P. Program, and Christina Applegate's Right Action for Women website.
Email:kh2485@tc.columbia.edu
Justin Jones, Ph.D.Justin Jones is a New York state licensed clinical psychologist who earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia University's Teachers College. Prior to entering the doctoral program, Dr. Jones earned a B.A. in English literature from Emory University and a masters degree in religion from Yale University. Trained in psychoanalytic, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, and humanistic/spiritual treatment modalities, Dr. Jones has worked at Bellevue Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Bronx Psychiatric Center, and, most recently, as a faculty psychologist at the Center for Intensive Treatment of Personality Disorders at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. Dr. Jones not only specializes in working with individuals suffering from Personality Disorders, Eating Disorders, addiction, and trauma, but also with individuals presenting with issues particular to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Furthermore, Dr. Jones also has specialized training in the administration of psycho-educational assessments to underserved children and adolescents who have struggled to progress academically. Dr. Jones's research has focused on the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, and mental health in gay men and gay fathers. He is currently working on a project exploring the unique qualities gay fathers offer to the experience of parenting, seeing individuals in his private practice, and teaching the special topics course, LGBT Mental Health, in the Clinical Psychology Program .
Judy Kuriansky, Ph.D.She has been a pioneer in sex therapy diagnosis and treatment since the beginning of that field, and lectures and writes about this subject extensively. She is also an expert in disaster recovery, and has done psychological first aide worldwide, e.g. after 9/11, the Asian tsunami and earthquakes in China and Haiti. She has published widely in many professional journals and books on all these subjects, and presented at innumerable conferences, and supports students to develop their career by publishing and presenting. She has developed original programs including for teen life skills and HIV prevention, East/West counseling approaches, and a cross-cultural toolbox of counseling techniques.
Her many books and articles are about relationships, sexuality, trauma, and the Middle East conflict, including works published in several languages. At the United Nations, she is active on many committees, as an NGO representative of the International Association of Applied Psychology and the World Council of Psychotherapy. In that role and as Director of Psychosocial Programs for U.S. Doctors for Africa, she has developed HIV/AIDS education and Empowerment Camps in Africa, and a Global Kids Connect Project connecting youth in Japan, Haiti and the U.S. Teaching all over the world, she is a Visiting Professor at Peking University Health Science Center and Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at Hong Kong University. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, she is on the board of the Peace Division, is the International liaison for the International Division, and is co-founder of the Media Division. An award-winning journalist for traditional and new media as well as a TV commentator, she has hosted call-in advice radio shows for 22 years and been a reporter for WCBS-TV News and CNBC-TV among others. As co-founder of the Stand Up for Peace Project, she does peace concerts and symposia worldwide. Teaching and approach looks at growth and multi-dimensional health at the levels of the microcosm of self and interpersonal relationships, to the macrocosm of intercultural and international relations. Her orientation is eclectic, combining all disciplines including cognitive-behavioral, client-centered, gestalt, humanistic, and existential psychology, with psychoanalytic underpinnings and an emphasis on diversity and an international perspective.
Email: jk2013@columbia.edu
Jill Leibowitz, Psy.D.Jill Leibowitz is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in play therapy and psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and adults. She received a B.A. from Boston College, and then went on to earn Master's and Doctoral degrees in clinical psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. Dr. Leibowitz completed her internship at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Medical Center, and continued to work in their pediatric department for several years post-internship. Dr. Leibowitz also completed the three-year training at the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPT) at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Leibowitz has been in private practice in NYC for over a decade, where she has done play- and psychotherapy, parent work, neuropsychological testing, and cognitive/academic remediation. She has supervised doctoral students for both psychotherapy and neuropsychological testing.
Email: drjleibow@aol.com
Sam Menahem, Ph.D.Dr. Sam Menahem, Ph.D. is a spiritually oriented psychologist in Fort Lee N.J. He is the founder of the Center for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Growth in Fort Lee. Dr. Menahem integrates humor and music into the therapy he does, as well as prayer, meditation and hypnosis. He believes that we all have a spiritual core which is hidden by guilt anger and fear. Therapy is eclectic, helping people to let go of these core emotional blockages and the negative beliefs that go with them to create unhappiness. Dr. Menahem is the author of two books, “When Therapy Isn’t Enough: The Healing Power of Prayer and Psychotherapy” and “All Your Prayers Are answered.” He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and past president of the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy in New York City. Dr. Menahem is a frequent lecturer and has made many radio and TV appearances. Web site: www.drmenahem.com
Nancy Nereo, Ph.D.
Dr. Nereo conducts psychotherapy for individuals & couples, adults & adolescents, using an integrative approach that combines psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral techniques. Her areas of interest include anxiety, depression, life transitions and relationship/family issues. She also specializes in psychological and neuropsychological assessment of children for evaluation of learning disabilities and psychological concerns. Areas of research: women's functioning in the maternal role, particularly in the context of a child's medical illness or developmental delay.
Email: nen2@columbia.edu
Home NguyenHome H.C. Nguyen is an educator, leadership consultant, and executive coach. Facilitating experiential and transformational learning, Home integrates mindfulness and contemplative practices with psychology and scholarly research. He coaches executives and teams from the financial, educational and healthcare industries, helping them address complex and challenging relationships, overcome anxiety and distractions, and develop resiliency and creativity.
He has practiced various forms of meditation and self awareness for more than 20 years. For the last two years, he has taught the Self-Awareness Training course to 360 participants of the Summer Principal Academy at Teachers' College. He also teaches the Whole Mind Strategy: Mindfulness for Executives seminar series for MBA students at Columbia Business School and earned his BA from the California Institute of Integral Studies. His doctoral research at Teachers College is in the field of adult learning and organizational leadership, which focuses on how leaders and their teams navigate complexity and ambiguity by developing a generative mindset.
Email: hcn2106@tc.columbia.edu
George Nitzburg, Ph.D.
I have also conducted psychotherapy and psychological testing with individuals of many ages and backgrounds in both inpatient and outpatient settings, including The Dean Hope Center, The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, and The Karen Horney Clinic.
Email: gnitzb@gmail.com
Elizabeth Owen, Ph.D.
Email: eao8@columbia.edu
Kathleen Pike, Ph.D.
Kathleen Pike is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the area of women's health for the past 25 years. Dr. Pike has held academic and administrative university appointments in both the United States and Japan and is recognized internationally for her work in the area of eating disorders. Dr. Pike's research focuses on the assessment and treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa and risk factors for eating disorders in a cross-cultural context. Dr. Pike developed a widely disseminated treatment program for anorexia nervosa and consults to programs around the world on the implementation of evidence-based treatments. She served as consultant to the American Psychiatric Association DSM-V task force on cultural factors associated with the clinical presentation and risk factors of eating disorders. During her time in Japan, she consulted to multiple universities and mental health organizations on adaptation and delivery of evidence based treatments across Asia.
Dr. Pike earned her undergraduate and master's degrees at Johns Hopkins University and her doctoral degree at Yale University. Upon completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, she joined the faculty at Columbia University in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology where she also served as Clinical Co-Director of the Eating Disorders Research Unit of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. From 1999 -- 2010, Dr. Pike lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan where she served as Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean for Research at Temple University in Japan and Visiting Professor at Keio University. In 2011 she returned to the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University where she currently chairs a task force on global mental health. Dr. Pike served as co-chair of training and education for the Academy for Eating Disorders and currently serves on the editorial board for the International Journal of Eating Disorders. She is the founding chair and president of a non-profit organization in the US that supports mental health services for the international community in Japan. Dr. Pike also served as vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation and in that capacity contributed to the founding of a regional, residential women's university in Bangladesh.
Email: kmp2@tc.columbia.edu
Steven Tzvi PirutinskySteven Pirutinsky is a current Ph.D. student of clinical psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and member of Professor Midlarsky's research lab. His research focuses on the relationship between various aspects of Orthodox Jewish religious-culture and psychological wellbeing, as well as Orthodox community attitudes towards mental illness and psychological treatment. He has published over 15 peer-reviewed publications on this subject matter most recently in Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Journal of Affective Disorders, Health Psychology, and the Journal of Positive Psychology. Steven’s expertise includes research design, data management, coding and analysis, and use of statistical software to facilitate basic and complex statistical procedures. In addition to this research, Steven is committed to community outreach, education, and the application of empirical, cultural-competent treatments within the Orthodox Jewish community. His current clinical work focuses on long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adults, Cognitive-Behavioral treatment of juvenile sex offenders, career counseling, and psychodiagnostic assessment.
Deborah Rosenzweig, Ph.D. Deborah Rosenzweig is a clinical psychologist in private practice in downtown Manhattan. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a masters in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University and her bachelors degree from Columbia College. She did postdoctoral training in the Relational Track at NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and also in Group and Couples work at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health’s Advanced Specialization Program.
Her areas of expertise include substance abuse, eating disorders, depression, sex, gender, and relational difficulties. The treatment modalities she specializes in include relational psychotherapy, mindfulness training, DBT and positive psychology techniques. She runs workshops and seminars focusing on using the techniques of Positive Psychology and Mindfulness in relation to parenting young children and is also the co-developer of “Peacetime,” a curriculum module designed to incorporate mindful attention training into the education of elementary school students. This program began implementation in the NYC public school system in 2011.
Dr. Rosenzweig will serve as guest editor for the Summer 2013 issue of The Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session, which will focus on the clinical applications of mindfulness related practices.At TC, Dr. Rosenzweig is a supervisor in the Clinical Psychology department and will be teaching “The Mind-Body Treatment of Addictive Disorders.”
Jason Rudolph, Psy.D.I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in full-time private practice in mid-town Manhattan. I work with a wide range of general psychotherapy patients living with addictions, compulsions, depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, and interpersonal difficulties.
In addition to my private practice, I train physicians at Hazelden New York and have taught a graduate course on chemical dependency at Teachers College since 2006. Previously, I was a clinician at Hazelden New York for five years, the Clinical Director of Inter-care for three years and an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Yeshiva University for two years.
Email: drjasonrudolph@hotmail.com
Erica Saypol, Ph.D.Dr. Saypol is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Greenwich, Connecticut. She studied psychology as an undergraduate at Princeton University and received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University. She completed her clinical internship at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City and her postdoctoral fellowship in Counseling and Psychological Services at Princeton University. Dr. Saypol is particularly interested in the treatment of depression and anxiety and in helping people to decrease stress and become more effective in their relationships, work, and school. Her approach is collaborative and she often helps people navigate transitions, drawing upon psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral treatment approaches. Along with her dog, Darwin, Dr. Saypol visits patients in the hospital to provide therapy-dog services.
Email: ebsaypol@gmail.com
Julia Sheehy, Ph.D.Dr. Sheehy is a clinical psychologist whose primary areas of interest are challenges to female mental health during emerging adulthood, eating disorders, and clinical training. She served as the Associate Director of Barnard College's Counseling Center for eight years, where she also directed the Center's training program and the College's eating disorders treatment team. She has taught in the psychology department at Barnard, and has lectured at local universities and hospitals. Dr. Sheehy has written journal articles and book chapters on the treatment of eating disorders; most recently, she contributed a chapter on the epidemiology of eating disorders to a textbook on women's health. Dr. Sheehy also maintains private practices in New York City and Westchester County. At Teachers College, Dr. Sheehy teaches the fieldwork course for master's-level students.
Email: js1802@tc.columbia.edu
Sarah ShermanSarah Sherman is co-founder and co-president of the Mindfulness and Education Working Group (MEWG) at Columbia University’s Teachers College, a first of its kind faculty, student, and staff initiative that explores and promotes the role of mindfulness and contemplative practices in education through innovative interdisciplinary research, theory, and practice. Her research interests are in service of deepening mind and body awareness to empower individuals to lead more fulfilling, meaningful and healthy lives. She works with groups that cross both academic disciplines and administrative departments at TC, including adults with Aphasia, the Summer Principals Academy, Peace Corps, and the Office of Facilities Management. She co-facilitates annual mindfulness retreats for professionals working in the Education Sector and leads a weekly meditation series at Teachers College.
Sarah received a B.F.A. with honors recognition from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.A. from Columbia University’s Teachers College. Sarah has daily mindfulness and meditation practices, including qigong, yoga, and other contemplative techniques. In addition, Sarah has lived for a month at a monastery in Taiwan and has walked spiritual pilgrimages including, El Camino de Santiago, Via Francigena, and Shvil Yisra'el.
Email:sherman@exchange.tc.columbia.edu
Erel Shvil, Ph.D.Dr. Shvil received his Bachelors degree in Philosophy from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University. He completed his Internship in clinical psychology at Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Yeshiva University. Dr. Shvil was recently accepted to NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Affective, Anxiety and Related Disorders, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University.
Currently, Dr. Shvil studies the neurobiological correlates of PTSD by working closely with and mentored by Dr. Yuval Neria, the Director of the Trauma and PTSD Program at NYSPI and Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia. Dr. Neria's lab has a program of research that has been funded by NIMH since 2004, and the lab is currently focusing on studies aiming to examine neurobiological basis of PTSD. He is currently involved in study aims to probe extinction related behavioral and brain markers in PTSD. Both PTSD patients and matched trauma-exposed healthy controls (TE-HC) are assessed with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and skin conductance response (SCR), during presentation of a 2 day fear paradigm.
Email: es2297@columbia.edu
Vijayeta Kumari Sinh, Ph.D. Dr. Sinh received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University where she received training in cognitive behavioral and psychodynamically oriented therapies. Her research interests are in psychopathology with an emphasis on mood disorders and personality disorders as well as cross-cultural issues in mental health assessment and treatment. Dr. Sinh is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centers for Specialization at North Shore LIJ's Zucker Hillside Hospital where her work focuses on the evidence-based treatment of bipolar disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Email: vks2101@columbia.edu
Karen Shoum Teel, Ph.D.Dr. Teel is a graduate of the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She brings a developmental perspective to her work that began forming during her senior year at Barnard College when she worked in the Barnard College Toddler Development Center. Her interests were further informed the next year as she earned her MA in Developmental Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University through her concentration in Risk, Resilience and Development. There, she began learning about the research behind therapeutic interventions in children, and how parental psychopathology affects child development.
While working on her doctorate, she became interested in parental depression and the reproductive cycle, specifically how mood disorders in women can be impacted by reproductive events. Dr. Shoum is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), Columbia University Medical Center where she works as the primary clinician on a study investigating the effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as a prevention for depression in teens who have biological parents diagnosed with depression. She also works with adolescents and their families at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CUCARD).
Email: ks446@tc.columbia.edu
Joseph Wagenseller, Ph.D.Dr. Joseph P. Wagenseller, D. Min., N.C. PsyA., L.P.C., L.P. is a Jungian Psychoanalyst in private practice in Westport, CT, having practiced for 37 years in Manhattan. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Temenos Institute, now celebrating its 36th year in Westport, and is past President of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. He is past Chair of the Assembly of Psychoanalytic Institutes of A.B.A.P. (The American Board for the Accreditation of Psychoanalysis, Inc.) and Chair of the Board of Trustees of A.B.A.P. Additionally, Dr. Wagenseller is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Wagenseller is the author of "The Archetype of Vocation" in Protestantism and Jungian Analysis, "Spiritual Renewal at Midlife from a Jungian Perspective", Journal of Religion and Health (Vol. 37, No. 3) and "Individuation; Jung's Psychological Equivalent of a Spiritual Journey", the Oxford University Press Handbook of Spirituality and Psychology, Ed. Lisa Miller, Ph.D. Pub. 2012
Email:jw2046@columbia.eduPh.D. Program 2012-2013
Merav Gur, Ph.D.Dr. Merav Gur received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Teachers College Columbia University, completed her clinical internship at St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital Center where she was trained in CBT, DBT, and psychodynamic psychotherapies. Dr. Gur completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center/Psychiatric Institute at the Anxiety Disorders clinic, and later became an Assistant Professor where she supervised clinical interviewers, participated in research and training, and provided psychotherapy. Dr. Gur has been in private practice in NYC since 2004 where she treats adolescents and adults combining IPT, CBT, DBT and psychodynamic psychotherapies. She is interested in attachment and relational issues in adults, in the treatment of pre and postpartum anxiety and depression, in anxiety and depression across the lifespan, specifically panic disorder and social anxiety, and in individuals who engage in self-sabotaging behaviors. To learn more about Dr. Gur’s research and clinical work, please go to www.meravgurphd.com.
Bruce Hubbard, Ph.D.Email: bh2140@columbia.edu
Nancy Eppler-Wolff, Ph.D.
Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff teaches Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Practicum for second year doctoral students, and supervises doctoral candidates in the clinical psychology program.
Dr. Eppler-Wolff received her doctorate in Educational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and then completed the post-doctoral re-specialization in Clinical Psychology at TC. She also received a post-doctoral certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from NYU.Currently, she is private practice in Manhattan, and also supervises doctoral candidates at the Derner Institute at Adelphi University.Dr Eppler-Wolff is the co-author of Raising children who soar: A guide to healthy risk-taking in an uncertain world (TC Press, 2009).
Email: nepplerwolff@earthlink.net
Jerome Kosseff, Ph.D.Academic background: CCNY, Honors in English and Anthropology, TC, MA, Clinical Psychology; intensive 10 week training with Carl Rogers at U. of Chicago; courses at New University, and William Alanson White Institute; psychoanalysis with Dr. David Gross, Gustav Bychowski and Janet Kennedy and various analytic supervisors.
Dr. Jerome Kossef worked for four years during WWII for the U.S. Air Force administering academic and psychomotor tests to air cadets and completing test construction. During the Pacific Theater, he worked as a Special Service Officer for the P-38 fighter squadron and then as Chief Psychologist, 2nd Central Medical Establishment Unit, 5th Air Force. Within this capacity, Dr. Kossef assessed air crew for combat readiness and treating severe trauma in South and Southwest Pacific island bases.
For 64 years, he has taught courses at TC in test construction, statistics, individual interviewing, psychodynamics, group therapy, supervision of individual students, and psychoanalytic theory/practice. Dr. Kossef is a senior faculty, supervisor and training analyst at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health.
Theoretical orientation: Object-Relations Theory/Relational Theory
Email: jk326@columbia.edu