Dr. Dina Hirsch, PHD Co-Founder
Dina Hirsch, PhD specializes in the provision of evidence based treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and family based treatment (FBT). She has presented across the country and is an expert in child and adolescent eating, mood and anxiety disorders as well as the provision of marital and family therapy. In addition to maintaining a private practice, she is senior psychologist at Northwell Health's Center for Weight Management. Prior to her current position, she spent almost a decade as the psychologist for the Eating Disorders Center at Cohen Children’s Medical Center (f/k/a Schneider Children's Hospital) where she delivered direct clinical services, provided supervision to psychology doctoral students and was involved in outcome research and program development. Dr. Hirsch joined the faculty in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Long Island Jewish/Zucker Hillside Hospital in 2002, formerly on the adolescent inpatient unit and in the child & adolescent outpatient program, including the adolescent DBT team. From 2007-2008, Dr. Hirsch temporarily relocated to CA where she was program director and director of social services at the child and adolescent unit of Good Samaritan Hospital. Upon returning to NY, Dr. Hirsch served as a clinical instructor at NYU Child Study Center, providing supervision to psychology and psychiatry trainees in the Family Studies Program. She also re-joined LIJ, where she developed and implemented a modified DBT program at the Eating Disorders Center. Dr. Hirsch co-authored a ground breaking treatment manual for eating disorders in adolescents which integrates and improves upon the best treatments for AN, including FBT, DBT, CBT, and ACT to name a few.
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Dr. Katie Taylor, PHD Co-Founder
Dr. Taylor specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, including ARFID, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder. She is trained in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Family Based Therapy (FBT). Dr. Taylor earned her BA. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, completing her clinical internship at Zucker Hillside Hospital. Dr. Taylor has worked with children, adolescents, and adults suffering from eating disorders across a variety of clinical settings. She has worked at Mount Sinai Eating and Weight Disorders Program, Rutgers Eating Disorder Clinic, and the Eating Disorder Center at Cohen’s Children’s Hospital. Dr. Taylor has published several peer reviewed articles based upon her research and presented at conferences on the topics of body image, neural correlates of eating disorders, stigma and eating disorders, and eating disorder prevention. Dr. Taylor has been a peer reviewer for the journals Body Image and European Eating Disorders Review. She has worked on adaptations of manuals, including eating disorder prevention and CBT group therapy for inpatient hospitalization.
Dr. Taylor is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College, in the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences for the Master of Art in Mental Health Counseling, where she currently teaches a course on the Assessment and Treatment of Eating disorders and Obesity and a course on Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Dr. Taylor previously taught Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders for 7 years at the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia.
In addition to treating eating disorders, Dr. Taylor is well versed in the application of CBT, Exposure Therapy, and Exposure and Response Prevention for Anxiety and Related Disorders. Dr. Taylor is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, The American Psychological Association, and The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Nathan Siegel, MHC-LC
Nathan Siegel specializes in treating OCD, ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder), and anxiety disorders with children, adolescents, and adults. Nathan values building a collaborative therapeutic relationship with each client, as well as basing therapeutic decisions on solid scientific evidence, to ensure that therapy is as helpful as possible.
As part of his graduate program, Nathan trained in the use of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for ARFID and other eating disorders with Dr. Katie Taylor. In working with OCD and anxiety disorders, he has extensive training in CBT as well as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), long considered the gold-standard treatment for OCD,
Nathan completed his graduate practicum experience with Dr. Anna Allmann, and his graduate internship at the New England Center for OCD and Anxiety (NECOA). He is a member of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF), and has facilitated workshops for children, teenagers and adults at the annual IOCDF conference several years in a row. Nathan earned his MA in Mental Health Counseling from the City University of New York (CUNY) – Baruch College, and holds a BA from Swarthmore College.
Prior to joining the mental health field, Nathan was an elementary and middle school teacher, an experience which informs his clinical work with children and families. Nathan also has significant experience working with members of the LGBTQ+ community, including trans individuals, and always seeks to provide affirming care.
He is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Katie Taylor and holds a permit in Mental Health Counseling.