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• Kim L. Lehnert, Ph.D.
  Director of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Services Family Psychology of Long Island
  1563 Montauk Highway
  Oakdale, New York 11769
  phone 631-563-3162
  fax 631-563-3185
  

  DBT Services at Family Psychology of Long Island provides standard outpatient DBT for adolescents and adults requiring a commitment to weekly individual DBT therapy sessions and weekly 90-minute DBT Skills Groups. Between session telephone consultation is available as needed for skills coaching. Medication management services with a DBT-informed psychiatrist are available as well. In addition, the DBT Family Forum Group is a 12 week psychoeducational program for family members that focuses on educating family members about behaviors commonly associated with borderline personality disorder and providing an overview of the four DBT skills modules.

  Dr. Lehnert is experienced in applying DBT to issues of depression and anxiety, borderline personality disorder, recovery from trauma, addictive disorders, the impact of familial substance abuse, eating disorders, and self-injury and suicidal behaviors. Dr. Lehnert is a national trainer for Behavioral Tech, the company that provides all DBT training for clinicians and researchers. She developed the Zucker Hillside Hospital DBT and DBT-Substance Abuse Programs of North Shore--Long Island Jewish Healthcare System and served as Chief of DBT Services from 1998 to 2003. Dr. Lehnert also served as the Director of Gampro, a comprehensive behavioral treatment program for gambling addiction at Pederson-Krag Center in Huntington, NY. Dr. Lehnert provides DBT training, supervision and consultation throughout the Long Island community.

  
  
  
• Anthony Pantaleno, Ph.D. Director
  Licensed NYS Psychologist
  Pantaleno Psychological Services, PLLC
  358 Veterans Memorial Highway
  Commack, NY 11725
  (631) 543-8336
  
  I offer individual DBT treatment to adolescent and young adult clients and their families, many of whom have been referred for other emotional disorders yet never encountered the BPD diagnosis in their travels through the system. I am also a NYS School Psychologist of nearly thirty years and advocate for parents on how to productively interface with the public school, university, mental health, and juvenile justice systems to obtain necessary services for their children.
  
  
  
• Allen Frances, M.D.
  New York State Psychiatric Institute
  Box 17
  722 W. 168th St.
  New York, NY 10032
  (212) 960-5850
  

• Jennifer Friedberg
  Research Coordinator
  Compulsive, Impulsive and Anxiety Disorders Program
  Mt. Sinai School of Medicine "The BPD program at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, is well-known. It sometimes offers medication research studies, in which medication and psychiatric evaluation is offered at no cost to eligible participants who come to its facility. It also offers private consultations (for a fee) with psychiatrists. Its web page, which provides information about the program as well as general information about BPD, is: http://www.mssm.edu/psychiatry/bpd.shtml.
  

• Perry D. Hoffman, Ph.D.
  The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Director - DBT Program
  (212) 659-9105
  
  President- National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder
  (914) 835-9011
  www.neabpd.org
  

• Janet Klosko, Ph.D.
  Cognitive Therapy Center of Long Island
  11 Middle Neck Road, #207
  Great Neck, New York 11028
  (516) 466-8485
  
  1426 Route 28
  West Hurly, New York 12491
  (845) 679-6699
  
  
• James Masterson, M.D
  60 Sutton Place South
  New York, NY 10022
  (212) 751-4992 and
  The Masterson Institute
  (212) 935-1414
  mastersnIn@aol.com
  www.mastersoninstitute.org
  

• Daniel E. Mattila, M.Div., LCSW-R
  Founding Fellow, Academy of Cognitive Therapy
  Cognitive Therapy Center of New York
  36 W. 44th St., Ste. 1007
  New York, NY 10036
  (212) 221-0700
  mattila@aya.yale.edu
  
  
• Larry J. Siever, M.D.
  Dept. of Psychiatry
  Bronx Veterans Administration Med. Center
  130 West Kingsbridge Rd.
  Bronx, NY 10468
  (212) 517-1021