Colleen Lang, Ph.D.
Practice Founder

I graduated magna cum laude and received my Bachelor’s Degree from Colgate University. I received my doctoral degree in clinical psychology from St. John's University. My pre-doctoral internship was at Zucker Hillside Hospital of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center (now Northwell), where I applied CBT and family therapy to children and adolescents and their families in outpatient and inpatient settings. Immediately following graduate school, my postdoctoral training was at the Partners Program of St. John's University, where I served as Clinical Coordinator and assisted with the dissemination and evaluation of an evidence-based treatment for underserved, traumatized children.

I subsequently worked as an Attending Psychologist in Montefiore's School-Based Health Program and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. At Montefiore, I was part of a multi-disciplinary team in a high school clinic providing comprehensive medical, dental and psychological care. I worked as a clinician and clinical supervisor, applying evidence-based treatments, including CBT and DBT, to youth within the high school.

I was intensively trained in DBT and then worked at Cognitive Behavioral Consultants, PLLC (CBC), a large group private practice that specializes in both the provision of evidence-based treatment, as well as in training of professionals, schools and agencies in implementation of DBT and CBT. At CBC, in addition to providing DBT and CBT with adolescents, adults, families and couples, as well as clinical supervision to staff members, I served as the Director of Consultation Services, a role within which I provided and coordinated numerous DBT and CBT trainings and presentations, as well as ongoing consultation to schools and agencies on their implementation of CBT and DBT.

I am a Clinical Supervisor at Teacher’s College of Columbia University, and have served as Adjunct Clinical Professor in the psychology graduate program at St. John's University, as well as at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University/Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

I am also intensively trained in the use of DBT and Prolonged Exposure (PE) to treat co-occuring trauma and severe emotion dysregulation. I have co-authored papers and chapters about trauma and the treatment of adolescent trauma, specifically, as well as the implementation of DBT in private practice. I provide reviews for academic journals, and present workshops and trainings related to the treatment of trauma and to the practice of CBT and DBT broadly. I have been an active member of the Association for Advancement for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the New York City Cognitive Behavioral Association and The American Psychological Association.

My Publications:

Brown, E.J., Lang, C., & Sharma-Patel, K. (2023, September). A trauma-informed approach to supervision and consultation. In M. D. Terjesen  & T. Del Vecchio (Eds.) Handbook of Training and Supervision in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Springer Cham.

Grefe McCann, C.N., Brown, E.J., Lang, C., & Sharma-Patel, K. (2019, November). Implementation of a trauma-specific, evidenced-informed treatment for adolescents: Two cases highlighting how to and how not to integrate. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

Lang, C. L., Edwards, A., Mittler, M., & Bonavitacola, L. (2018, August). Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with Prolonged Exposure (PE) for Adolescents: Rationale and Review of the Research. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice (25)3, 416-426.

Reynolds, S. K., & Lang, C. L. (2018, October). DBT in Private Practice. In M. Swales (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. London, England: Oxford University Press.

Lang, C. (2017). Trauma and stressor-related disorders: Lifespan perspective. In A. E. Wenzel (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lang, C. M., Brown, E. J., Hodges, E. V., & Chaplin, W. (2012). Children’s responses to community violence: The roles of avoidant and confrontive coping. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma 5(4): 285-302.

Lang, C. M. & Sharma-Patel, K. (2011). The relation between childhood maltreatment and self-injury: A review of the literature on conceptualization and intervention. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 12(1), 23-37.

Lang, C. M., (2010, Spring). Child maltreatment and self-injury. APSAC Alert, 1. Publication of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.

Fuller, R. J., DiGiuseppe, R., O’Leary, S., Fountain, T., & Lang, C. (2010). An open trial of a comprehensive anger treatment program on an outpatient sample. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (38), 485-490.

Smith, C. J., Lang, C. M., Kryzak, L., Reichenberg, A., Hollander, E., & Silverman, J. M. (2009). Familial associations of intense preoccupations, an empirical factor of the restricted, repetitive behaviors and interests domain of autism. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 50(8), 982-990.