Oct. 27, 2021 – Teens and Anxiety Panel
Date: Wed. Oct. 27, 2021
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Free webinar: “Manifestations of Anxiety — and how to support teens struggling with anxiety”
Presented by: Beacon’s Counseling Team and the PTA
Moderators: Beacon School Social Worker Samilia Ghartey-Sam and PTA Co-President Nancy Molesworth
Panelists: Clinicians confirmed for this discussion include past PTA speakers Dr. Michell and Dr. Yanes-Luken plus a clinician from the Center for Anxiety; and Karen Hirschkorn, a Beacon parent and psych nurse. See their bios below.
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Panelist bios:
Dr. Arkaprava “Arka” Deb is a psychiatrist and preventive medicine physician. His clinical activities are focused on adolescents and young adults ages 12-24 as Director of Psychiatric Services for The Door Adolescent Health Center in New York. His previous clinical work focused on First Episode Psychosis and Emergency Psychiatry. His teaching responsibilities are centered at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry where serves as Director of Public Psychiatry Education. At Downstate, his responsibilities include residency education, professional mentoring, and program development in community psychiatry and public service. He has previously taught residents and medical students as faculty at NYU School of Medicine and briefly at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and University of Maryland School of Medicine, immediately after his residency training. Arka also works in health policy, currently as a Medical Officer for the US Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He has previously completed a Visiting Fellowship at the Urban Institute Health Policy Center (Washington, DC).
Karen Hirschkorn, a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in private practice, grew up in Manhattan and graduated from the private school, Riverdale Country School. She went on to earn her undergraduate degree in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Vermont. Four years later, she received her graduate degree from Vanderbilt University in Psychiatric Nursing. She began her career in psychiatric homecare working with chronically psychiatrically ill patients. She went on to work at St Mary’s Hospital for Children for eight years where she provided all the psychopharmacology services to medically complex children with HIV, Diabetes and Brain injury-children struggling with various disorders such as depression and anxiety. Karen also provided individual and family therapy both on-site and in her private practice she opened in 1999. She received ongoing training from the Beck Institute in Philadelphia and became a certified Cognitive Therapist. She also was appointed as an adjunct for both the undergraduate and graduate psychiatric programs at NYU School of Nursing until 2011. In addition, she became a medical staff provider at St Lukes Roosevelt Hospital working in their Comprehensive Care Center Clinic, with the HIV population and their families. In the last 10 years, Karen received intensive family and couple work training at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and moved full time into her office on Central Park South. She services children, adolescents and their families. She provides psychiatric evaluations, individual psychotherapy, family and couple therapy, parent sessions and psychopharmacology management.
Dr. Monica Michell has a lifelong interest in the workings of the mind and in human development. She majored in psychology at Vassar College, received her MD at New York Medical College, and completed a four year residency in adult psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center. She received subspecialty training in child and adolescent psychiatry during a two year fellowship at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her psychoanalytic training was done at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Michell has over twenty years of experience working with adults, children and adolescents. She has served as Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Lenox Hill Hospital and Chair of the Child Psychotherapy Program at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education. As a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center, she supervises residents on the outpatient treatment of adults. She is a member of the faculty at the NYU Child Study Center and supervises the treatment of children and adolescents. She is on the faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, where she has taught courses on depression and child development, and serves as an advisor to candidates.
Dr. Monica Shah is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Anxiety (Manhattan Office). She received her doctoral degree from St. John’s University, during which she completed a dual internship at CBT/DBT Associates and Academics West, providing therapeutic services in both clinical and school settings. Before beginning her doctoral training, Dr. Shah worked as a Certified School Psychologist in British Columbia, Canada. She has treated both youth and adults with anxiety and mood disorders, emotional dysregulation, obsessive-compulsive difficulties, ADHD, and related concerns. Dr. Shah also provides parent, family, and group services to maximize clients’ benefit from treatment. Her research focus includes the use of mindfulness strategies with special populations, and she strives to improve access to mental health services in her work. As a clinician, Dr. Shah applies an evidence-based, collaborative, and compassionate approach to help people build the lives that they want to lead.
Dr. Paula Yanes-Lukin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is the Director of Psychology at the Youth Treatment and Evaluation of Anxiety and Mood (Y-TEAM) Program/Children’s Day Unit (CDU), a day treatment and research program that offers evidence-based assessments and treatments for children and adolescent who are struggling due to difficulties with mood and anxiety. She graduated with her B.A. in psychology from Amherst College, and received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. She completed her internship training at the Hudson River Regional Psychology Internship Consortium, and her postdoctoral training at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Yanes-Lukin specializes in the provision of cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety and mood disorders, and is trained in Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents. She also has experience working with both adult and youth populations, as well as families. Her research interests include avoidance coping and novel treatments for anxiety and mood disorders in youth.
