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Speakers Bureau
Speakers Bureau

 

Through our Public Education Committee (PEC), our members serve to educate the public about the value of psychological health and how psychologists help people’s health, lives, businesses, and families. Individual members are available to the public for speaking engagements and to respond to reporter inquiries.

Please contact Christine at njpacg@psychologynj.org or 973-243-9800 for outreach to our psychologists. If you are an NJPA member and would like to be included in our Speakers Bureau, please submit your request at the bottom of this page.

Disclaimer - Inclusion of a psychologist on the NJPA Speakers Bureau or the NJPA Media Resource List should not be interpreted as an endorsement by NJPA. In no event shall NJPA be liable for damages to any user of this public relations service for the voluntary selection of a psychologist, for the resources provided by any psychologist listed herein, or for any other damages associated with this NJPA Speakers Bureau or the NJPA Media Resource List. Please note that the choice of a psychologist is entirely yours and there are numerous psychologists outside this resource service who are qualified to address your particular needs. These psychologists speak as individual psychologists and do not on behalf of the NJPA association.

Jeffrey Axelbank, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist

Clinical Issues/areas of expertise: Barriers to accessing Mental Health services, Mental Health Insurance issues, Confidentiality in Mental health treatment (especially regarding insurance companies), Survivors of child abuse (sexual, physical, emotional, neglect), Dissociation/Multiple Personality (Dissociative Identity Disorder), Chronic pain, Group therapy, Workplace/organizational issues: Workplace burnout, involving all stakeholders in transition/change/strategic planning, conflict resolution in organizations, team dynamics in organizations. Read Dr. Axelbank's credentials here.

Mitch Abrams, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist

Areas of Expertise: Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Sports Psychology. Media Experience :TV Interviews, Radio Interviews, Pod Cast Interviews, Contributed to an article (newspaper/magazine),Public Speaking; I am open to speaking engagements. Read Dr. Abrams's credentials here.

Leslie Becker-Phelps, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Areas of expertise include relationship issues, self-sabotage (addressing how people perpetuate their own failure to make personal change), stress management, and postpartum depression. Relationships expert on WebMD's Relationships and Coping Community; and author of The Art of Relationships blog on WebMD. Author of Making Change blog on Psychology Today's website. Read Dr. Becker-Phelps' credentials.

Suzanne Buchanan, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist

Areas of expertise are autism spectrum disorders, effective treatment, school issues, and family dynamics. Read Dr. Buchanan's credentials.

Linda Centeno, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Areas of expertise include eating disorders, borderline personality disorder (and DBT), sexual Abuse/trauma/PTSD, mood disorders, and women's issues. Read Dr. Centeno's credentials.

Steven Dranoff, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Dranoff works with adolescents and adults in his private practice. Dr. Dranoff is also founder and president of a national organizational consulting firm with specialty in bullying, sexual harassment, and violence protection. Read about Dr. Dranoff.

Michelle Drapkin, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Psychology Specialties: Clinical Psychology | Industrial/Organizational Psychology Media Experience: TV Interviews | Radio Interviews | Pod Cast Interviews | Contributed to an article (newspaper/magazine) Public Speaking: I am open to speaking engagements michelle@cbtcenterofcentralnj.com. Read Dr. Drapkin's CV

Irene Erckert, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Psychology Specialties: Clinical Psychology | Adults | Adolescents | LGBTQ | Media Experience: TV Interviews | Podcast Interviews | Contributed to an article (newspaper/magazine) Public Speaking: I am open to speaking engagements dr.erckert@gmail.com. Read Dr. Erckert's CV

Janie Feldman, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist

Certified School Psychologist and licensed psychologist Conducts psychotherapy, evaluations, and consultations for children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples. Specializes in providing individual, group and family psychotherapy, assessment, and consultation. Read Dr. Feldman's credentials.

Resa Fogel, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Specializing in children, adolescents, and adults (psychotherapy, assessment, and supervision). Read Dr. Fogel's credentials.

Bonnie Gorscak, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Gorscak serves as the Director for Clinical Training at the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University's School of Social Work. She has worked in the area of grief and loss for over fifteen years as a clinician, supervisor, and trainer and has provided workshops for clinicians around the country and internationally. The mission of the Center for Complicated Grief is to disseminate information about grief, complicated grief, and adaptive grief therapy, and to disseminate the evidence-based Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT). Dr. Gorscak is available to speak with general audiences, bereaved persons and their family members, clergy, medical personnel, or any group working with bereaved people, on strategies for coping with grief and loss. She is also available to speak with professional groups who would like to learn more about CGT and training workshops visit www.complicatedgrief.columbia.edu. Read Dr. Gorscak's credentials.

Nancy Just, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Just is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and is recognized in New Jersey Superior Court as an expert in several areas of practice. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of emotional distress, anxiety disorders, mood disorders and chronic pain. Dr. Just is Director of Advanced Psychological Specialists. She serves as Adjunct Faculty for Rutgers University Behavioral Healthcare and serves as a Clinical Supervisor for Rutgers Graduate School for Applied and Professional Psychology. Read Dr. Just’s credentials.

Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, (also known as “Dr. Friendtastic”) is an author, psychologist, and mom of four. Her blog, Growing Friendships, on Psychology Today, has over 4.9 million views. She is the creator of the Kids Ask Dr. Friendtastic podcast, where she answers questions from children about making and keeping friends. Dr. Kennedy-Moore has been featured many times in major media, including Live with Kelly and Ryan and The New York Times. She's also a professor for The Great Courses/Wondrium series, Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids. Her nine traditionally published books include Moody Moody Cars (for ages 4-8), Growing Feelings (for ages 6-12), and Kid Confidence (for parents). Dr. Kennedy-Moore has a clinical psychology practice in Princeton, NJ (lic. #35SI00425400), where she works with adults, children, and families. She frequently speaks at schools, corporations, and conferences.
MAIN WEBSITE:https://EileenKennedyMoore.com
PODCAST FOR KIDS: https://DrFriendtastic.com/podcast
BLOG: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/growing-friendships

Dr. Kennedy-Moore's CV

Eileen Kohutis, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Areas of Specialty are: Forensics, Divorce, Custody, Clinical Psychology, Assessment. Visit Dr. Kohutis' website for more information or read Dr. Kohutis' credentials here.

Chris Kotsen, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist

Expert on tobacco dependence treatment, sometimes called smoking cessation/tobacco cessation or smoking habit. Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist. Read Dr. Kotsen's credentials.

Konstantin Lukin, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Clinical Psychology Dr. Lukin's credentials.

Joel Nunez, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Treats adults and adolescents, clinical and forensic psychology. Read Dr. Nunez's credentials.

Michael Osit, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Provides consultation, assessment, and psychotherapy for children, adolescents, families, couples, and adults. Dynamic and frequent presenter on a wide variety of topics for professionals, parents, schools, and agencies. Author of Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything, awarded “Best Book of the Year” by Instructor Magazine and is one of 5 finalists out of 440 books reviewed by the 13th Annual Books for Life Awards in the category of Parenting. Read Dr. Osit's credentials.

Amelia Romanowsky PsyD
Licensed Psychologist

I am an experienced clinical psychologist who specializes in couples and adult therapy. I help clients feel more understood and supported in their relationships. I have extensive training in working with emotions, as well as understanding behavior and how to make positive changes. My couples work is grounded in two powerful relational frameworks, Emotion Focused Couples Therapy and Relational Life Therapy. I have expertise in couples therapy, life transitions, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and LGBT issues. I have a strong interest in the mind-body connection. Read Dr. Romanowsky's credentials.

Bart Rossi, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Bart Rossi, PhD is a political psychologist commentator that provides insights to stories in the news. He offers psychological insight to high profile news items in general, and politics in particular. He has appeared on a wide range of television networks, including MSNBC, CBS, and FOX5, local television MY9, PIX 11, and the cable news shows News12: Power and Politics; and theEMMY-winning cable show The Fresh Outlook. He appears on radio on such as The Wall Street Journal This Morning, the Alan Colmes Show on Fox Radio, the Jake Burkman Show, and WDUN Newstalk 550 in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Rossi has appeared in newspapers including the New York Daily News, USA Today, as well as magazines. Read here for more information.

Michael Selbst, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Selbst is Director of Behavior Therapy Associates, PA in Somerset, New Jersey. He is a licensed psychologist, Certified School Psychologist, and Board Certified Behavior Analyst at the doctoral level. Dr. Selbst has co-founded and is the executive director of HI-STEP® Summer Social Skills Program, an intensive 5-week day program for children to improve their social emotional learning, and the executive director of the Weekend to Improve Social Effectiveness (W.I.S.E.). He has extensive experience working with pre-school aged children through adults. Dr. Selbst provides individual and family therapy, behavioral parent training, social skills training, school-based consultation, functional behavior assessments and behavior intervention plans, psychological and psychoeducational evaluations, and expert/independent evaluations. He has led numerous workshops, including at local, statewide, national and international conferences, as well as for parent advocacy groups and school districts. Dr. Selbst is co-author of the Behavior Problems Resource Kit: Forms and Procedures for Identification, Measurement and Intervention and the social skills curriculum, POWER-Solving®: Stepping Stones to Solving Life’s Everyday Social Problems. Read Dr. Selbst's credentials here.

Jeffrey Singer, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Current: Practice psychoanalytically-informed, interpersonal, and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapies with adults, adolescents, families, and couples; facilitate Anger Management Group, deliver psychological services including evaluations to the Division of Youth & Family Service, Office of the Law Guardian, and Parental Representation Unit; conduct Independent Medical Examination evaluations; consult to the Public Advocate’s Division of Mental Health and Guardianship Advocacy Office of the New Jersey and the office of Mental Health Legal Services of New York State by conducting forensic psychological evaluations and sexual recidivism risk assessments for involuntary civil commitment hearings and provide expert testimony under the purview Sexually Violent Predator Act (NJ) or Sex Offender Management Act (NY), deliver mandated outpatient sex-offender specific psychotherapy to sex offenders and coordinate services with the offices of Parole and Probation. Read Dr. Singer's credentials.

Milton Spett, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Areas of expertise are anxiety disorders, depression, OCD, panic, relationship problems, and stress. Read Dr. Spett's credentials.

Anthony Tasso, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Anthony Tasso is Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology and Hi Counseling at Fairleigh Dickinson University and has a psychotherapy private practice in Morris County, New Jersey. Dr. Tasso earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tennessee and completed his Doctoral Internship at Pennsylvania Hospital/University of Pennsylvania. He is a New Jersey licensed psychologist and is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). Dr. Tasso has published more than 50 professional articles, book chapters, and book reviews and is actively engaged in clinical training, research, supervision, and practice. Read Dr. Tasso's credentials.

Stanley Teitelbaum, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Teitelbaum discusses a variety of issues from drug and alcohol abuse to domestic violence, gambling and today’s scourge, steroids. In his psychotherapy practice, he has worked extensively with professional athletes and sports agents-which has enabled him to gain insight into the psyche of sports figures-both on and off the field. Dr. Teitelbaum is the author of numerous articles in leading mental health publications and has appeared on more than twenty-five national television and radio shows including Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20 and CNN. Visit Dr. Teitelbaum's website at www.stanleyteitelbaum.com and read Dr.Teitelbaum's credentials.

Tamsen Thorpe, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Specialized training in the areas of couple’s counseling, infertility, sexuality, work place issues as well as stress reduction, parent coordination, family mediation and collaborative divorce. Read Dr.Thorpe's credentials.

Allen Weg, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Areas of expertise include strategies and treatments for anxiety disorders and compulsive behaviors. Read Dr. Weg's credentials.

Amie Wolf-Mehlman, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Areas of expertise include children and divorce, stress reduction, families, compassionate parenting, core values and relationships. Read Dr. Wolf-Mehlman's credentials

Michael Zito, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

Sport psychology, coaching science, performance enhancement, managing performance anxiety, triathletes, pediatric ADHD and Bipolar disorder (had an article in NJ Psychologist in the Fall issue), anxiety, depression, children and adolescents, marital relationships, family dynamics. For more information read Dr. Zito's credentials here.

Jeannine Zoppi, PhD
Licensed Psychologist

One specialty in her private practice is adoption. She has given presentations on the topic of adoption at a variety of local and national adoption conferences. Dr. Zoppi contributed the blog "So What About Dad? Creating Space for Birth Fathers in Adoption Stories" to the American Fertility Association's website. Read Dr. Zoppi's credentials.

We invite licensed NJPA members to join the NJPA Speakers Bureau/Media Resource List. Your inclusion in one, or both, of these groups ensures your commitment towards fulfilling the NJPA mission by educating the public on issues of current interest and building relationships with the media and community organizations.

Disclaimer: Inclusion of a psychologist in the NJPA Speakers Bureau/NJPA Media Resouce List should not be interpreted as an endorsement by NJPA. In no event shall NJPA be liable for damages to any user of this public relations service for the voluntary selection of a psychologist, for the resources provided by any psychologist listed herein, or for any other damages associated with the NJPA Speakers Bureau/Media Resource List.


I attest that I am duly licensed and in good standing to practice psychology in the State of NJ and there are no formal proceedings or disciplinary actions pending against me before the NJ Board of Psychological Examiniers (BoPE) or any other state regulatory body, other government authority, or have any other pending judicial or other adjudicative proceeding involving any allegations of improper conduct in your practice of psychology.

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