Dr. Pauline Bergstein's Home Page


Current Status: I am a licensed psychologist in private practice in Englewood and Ridgewood, New Jersey. I work with children of middle childhood age, teens, and adults and their families. I have cultivated a more specific expertise in treating the disorders more common to adolescence including eating disorders, other addictive and self-harming behaviors, and gender/sexual-identity issues. I am also an adjunct professor teaching within the Fairleigh Dickinson University’s General and Theoretical and School Psychology graduate programs, an instructor and supervising faculty member of the New York Institute of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and a board member of the New Jersey Psychological Association’s Ethic Committee. Experience: Much of my clinical acumen specific to working with children and adolescents came from extensive graduate and postgraduate training and supervision in child psychology and play therapy. I have treated troubled youths and their families at the Bergen County Department of Human Services, Division of Family Guidance, and it was for this county agency that I ultimately ran a state-funded after school treatment program for highly disturbed youths and their families. I have also run social skills programs for children with oppositional behaviors, social anxiety and ADHD, and I managed the child group therapy program at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Counseling Center. My training in treating eating disordered patients came from a postdoctoral fellowship at New York Presbyterian (then called Cornell Hospital), Westchester, NY. I received intensive substance abuse training during my internship and subsequent hire as a staff psychologist at the Veteran’s Hospital in East Orange. While working at the VA hospital I not only treated drug and alcohol addicted patients but helped to train psychology interns, externs, and UMDNJ medical students in the identification and treatment of addictions. Additional Info: I have authored and co-authored articles and presentations on professional ethics, the detection and treatment of substance abuse, and the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. In addition, I am a member of the American Psychological Association, The New Jersey Psychological Association, the Academy for Eating Disorders, National Eating Disorders Association, The Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and am a graduate of The New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology.

Current Status: I am a licensed psychologist in private practice in Englewood and Ridgewood, New Jersey. I work with children of middle childhood age, teens, and adults and their families. I have cultivated a more specific expertise in treating the disorders more common to adolescence including eating disorders, other addictive and self-harming behaviors, and gender/sexual-identity issues. I am also an adjunct professor teaching within the Fairleigh Dickinson University’s General and Theoretical and School Psychology graduate programs, an instructor and supervising faculty member of the New York Institute of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and a board member of the New Jersey Psychological Association’s Ethic Committee.

Experience: Much of my clinical acumen specific to working with children and adolescents came from extensive graduate and postgraduate training and supervision in child psychology and play therapy. I have treated troubled youths and their families at the Bergen County Department of Human Services, Division of Family Guidance, and it was for this county agency that I ultimately ran a state-funded after school treatment program for highly disturbed youths and their families. I have also run social skills programs for children with oppositional behaviors, social anxiety and ADHD, and I managed the child group therapy program at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Counseling Center.

My training in treating eating disordered patients came from a postdoctoral fellowship at New York Presbyterian (then called Cornell Hospital), Westchester, NY. I received intensive substance abuse training during my internship and subsequent hire as a staff psychologist at the Veteran’s Hospital in East Orange. While working at the VA hospital I not only treated drug and alcohol addicted patients but helped to train psychology interns, externs, and UMDNJ medical students in the identification and treatment of addictions.

Additional Info: I have authored and co-authored articles and presentations on professional ethics, the detection and treatment of substance abuse, and the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. In addition, I am a member of the American Psychological Association, The New Jersey Psychological Association, the Academy for Eating Disorders, National Eating Disorders Association, The Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and am a graduate of The New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology.