Dr. Skolnick serves as an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. She is an active member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the New York City Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association, Academy for Eating Disorders, and the New York Chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation. She has several research publications and presentations related to anxiety disorders and eating disorders. Dr. Skolnick is passionate about providing workshops and trainings to other mental health professionals and the community. She has also completed training through Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights to conduct evaluations for asylum seekers.
Prior to founding MindWell NYC, Dr. Skolnick served as a staff psychologist and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at CBT/DBT Associates in New York City. Dr. Skolnick completed an externship and pre-doctoral clinical internship at Northwell Health, with rotations in the adolescent Eating Disorder Day Program, DBT adult outpatient clinic, adolescent inpatient unit, and geriatric partial hospital program. Dr. Skolnick also completed an externship and post-doctoral fellowship at CBT/DBT Associates working as an individual CBT and DBT therapist for adults, as well as a DBT skills group co-leader.
Dr. Skolnick earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Hofstra University, M.A. in Psychology in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and B.Sc. from Tufts University.
