Regine Galanti, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of individuals with anxiety and OCD; as well as young children with behavior problems, anxiety, and co-occuring disorders. She specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). She is the founder of Long Island Behavioral Psychology, a therapy practice in Nassau County, Long Island, and author of Anxiety Relief for Teens: Essential CBT Skills and Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Anxiety and Stress.  Dr. Galanti received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Hofstra University.

Dr. Galanti works together with parents, schools, and teachers to optimize treatment for a child. She provides concrete, research-proven strategies to help individuals with generalized anxiety, panic disorder, OCD,  social anxiety, school refusal, selective mutism, disruptive behaviors, and ADHD. She is a sought after speaker who has been quoted in The Washington Post, Self Magazine, and Buzzfeed, among others.

In this episode, we cover:

1. How did you figure out you wanted to be a child psychologist?
2. How did you decide which graduate programs to apply to, and why was program orientation so important?
3. How should students go about figuring out which theoretical orientations they align with?
4. Choosing between PsyD and PhD: orientation, training, research, and financial considerations
5. Why Regine’s professors told her to go to conferences
6. How did you piece together that you wanted to work with children again after having worked with adults throughout graduate school?
7. Why did you open a private practice?
8. How can we do better at communicating clinical findings to the public?
9. What are important considerations to make when deciding whether you want to work with children or adults?
10. Why Regine thinks it’s easier to work with kids, and why she loves it
11. A day in Regine’s life
12. Favorite and least favorite parts of the job
13. Regine supervises grad students in clinical psychology. In her experience, what kinds of students do really well with CBT therapy?
14. Misconceptions about CBT
15. What do you see a lot of graduate students struggling with?
16. Grad school isn’t about just getting it done
17. Specialist vs generalist practitioners - how do you choose which conditions you want to treat?
18. What do you think people can/should do to maximize their preparedness for graduate school?
19. What skill, quality, or general factor has served you no matter where you went?

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Music by: Adam Fine