Psychology

Featuring the top 3 experts for this topic

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  Dr. Michele Borba

  
  Dr. Michele Borba strives to help strengthen children’s character and resilience, build strong families, create compassionate and just school cultures, and reduce peer cruelty. She is an internationally recognized expert and author on children, teens, parenting, bullying and moral development. Her advice is culled from a career of working with over one million parents and educators worldwide.
  Media outlets regularly depend on Dr. Borba as the “go-to” expert on parenting, bullying prevention, education and child/teen issues. She is also the award-winning author of 22 parenting and educational books translated into 14 languages. Dr. Borba is also a national spokesperson, a bullying prevention, parenting and character development expert, motivational speaker and educational consultant.

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  Dr. Michelle Reitman

  As a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed mental health counselor, Dr. Michelle Reitman specializes in the treatment of autism and developmental disabilities, and behavioral disorders. She is a practicing, board-certified music therapist for 17 years and has had extensive training in behavior modification, Communication Systems, psychodynamic and systems theories, couples and family therapy, and developmental psychology.
  
  Dr. Reitman worked with a wide variety of clinical populations including children with various physical disabilities, learning disabilities, conduct and behavioral disorders, as well as adolescents and adults with mood disorders, chemical dependence, relationship issues, personality disorders, and chronic medical conditions. She founded Cadenza Music Therapy to serve children with autism and developmental disabilities.

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  Dr. Gail Saltz

  
  Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst ,columnist, bestselling author, and television commentator Gail Saltz, M.D., has been called “a voice of wisdom and insight in a world of confusion and contradictions” by Tom Brokaw. Dr. Saltz is a regular health, sex, and relationship contributor to the Today show. In addition, she writes a weekly “Relationship” column for MSNBC.com, is the emotional wellness expert for iVillage.com and serves as a frequent contributor to A&E’s Biography programs.
  Dr. Saltz hosts a series at the famed 92nd Street Y entitled “Strength of Mind “where she interviews celebrities and extraordinary individuals about psychologically interesting issues. To date, she has spoken with such luminaries as Woody Allen, Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, Jane Pauley, Howie Mandell and Rosie O’Donnell, among others.
  Gaining a reputation as the – go-to – person on a variety of psychological issues, especially those pertaining to women’s emotional well-being, Dr. Saltz has appeared repeatedly on The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC’s The View, Dateline, ABC’s 20/20 and Primetime, Fox News Bill O’Reilly and Glen Beck, CNN’s Larry King Live and Anderson Cooper 360, HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell and Joy Behar among others. She has been featured or quoted in the Associated Press, Newsweek, O Magazine, Parade, Redbook, Woman’s World, Town & Country, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, and WebMD.
  Dr. Saltz is the author of the critically-acclaimed Becoming Real: Defeating the Stories We Tell Ourselves That Hold Us Back, Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie and most recently The Ripple Effect: How Better Sex Can Lead To a Better Life. She has also written 2 children’s books, Amazing You! Getting Smart About Your Private Parts and Changing You: A Guide to Body Changes and Sexuality.
  Dr. Saltz Graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and served her internship and residency in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at Cornell-Weill School of Medicine and The New York Presbyterian Hospital. Her undergraduate studies were at Lehigh University, where she earned a B.A. in Biology and Psychology.
  An Associate Professor of Psychiatry at The New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, Dr. Saltz is a psychoanalyst with The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and has a private practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She lives in New York with
  her husband and three daughters.

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