Greta Doctoroff, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who provides psychotherapy for children, families, and adults from a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and family systems perspective. She has expertise treating anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, disruptive behavior disorders and depression utilizing evidence-based approaches. Dr. Doctoroff has specialized training in behavioral parent training, CBT, exposure and response prevention, behavioral therapy for body-focused repetitive behaviors and Parent-Child Interaction Training (PCIT). She is a certified therapist and Level I Trainer for PCIT, a coaching model to help parents improve parent-child relationships and manage their young children’s challenging behavior. She enjoys collaborating with parents to provide support for a range of developmental transitions and challenges.

Dr. Doctoroff is an associate professor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology where she trains doctoral students in developmental psychopathology and evidence-based treatments. She co-leads the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Practicum for Youth which allows her to supervise graduate students learning to utilize evidence-based treatments. Her research focuses on parenting and teaching practices to support young children’s social emotional and early academic development, evidence-based parenting programs to prevent and treat disruptive behavior problems, and parenting under stress, such as while having a baby in the NICU. Dr. Doctoroff also provides supervision to other professionals in the field looking to improve their ability to use CBT and behavioral approaches.

Dr. Doctoroff earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she obtained a specialization in child, adolescent, and family clinical psychology. She was a clinical intern in the child and adolescent track at the NYU Child Study Center and Bellevue Hospital Center, and subsequently completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship with an early childhood specialization at Brown Medical School/Rhode Island Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree from Haverford College.

Dr. Doctoroff has published her research in peer reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Developmental Psychology, and presented at national conferences. She is a member of the Society for Research on Child Development and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.