Dina Shackman Hirsch, PhD specializes in the provision of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and family therapy. In addition to her private practice, Dr. Hirsch serves as a clinical instructor at NYU Child Study Center, providing supervision to psychology and psychiatry trainees in the Family Studies Program. She is also a staff psychologist at Schneider Children’s Hospital where she delivers direct clinical services, provides supervision to psychology doctoral students and is involved in outcome research and program development. Dr. Hirsch has been on faculty in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Long Island Jewish/Zucker Hillside Hospital since 2002, providing clinical supervision and direct clinical services as head psychologist on the adolescent inpatient unit and staff psychologist/clinical supervisor in the child & adolescent outpatient program. While in the outpatient program, she spent four years on 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. Since her return to NY, she developed and currently implements a modified DBT program at the Eating Disorders Center at Schneider Children's Hospital. Dr. Hirsch actively provides training, supervision, and consultation to psychology and psychiatry trainees in the provision of CBT, DBT, and family therapy.
Dr. Hirsch earned her Bachelor's degree, cum laude in Psychology from Barnard College, Columbia University. She then went on to graduate school at University of Maryland, College Park, where she received her Doctorate of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Hirsch subsequently completed an APA-accredited internship and child psychology fellowship at Zucker Hillside Hospital and Schneider Children's Hospital, respectively, of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.