Dr. Liza Pincus is an experienced clinical director, trainer, supervisor, and clinician, focused on the broad dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). In addition to her work at BSI, Dr. Pincus co-directs the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic at Rutgers University (DBT-RU), where she trains, teaches, and supervises clinical psychology doctoral students to deliver adherent DBT. She frequently trains community providers and consults for schools and organizations on DBT and CBT methods. Dr. Pincus completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard University and her masters and doctoral degrees at the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.
Dr. Pincus is a licensed clinical psychologist (New Jersey, New York, PSYPACT) and DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™ whose clinical practice focuses on the treatment of emotion regulation difficulties and post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive, sleep, anxiety, mood, and personality disorders for clients ages 12 and above.
Dr. Pincus previously served as the clinical director of the Adolescent DBT Program at the Montefiore Medical Center Moses Child Outpatient Psychiatry Division, a fully adherent DBT program serving teens and families in the Bronx, and the clinic where DBT was originally adapted for adolescents. In her roles as clinical director and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she directed the annual intensive foundational training in DBT for all psychology and psychiatry trainees, and frequently taught and supervised graduate students.
She trained under the mentorship of Dr. Shireen Rizvi, an international expert in DBT research and training and a student of Dr. Marsha Linehan, the creator of DBT. She is also intensively trained in Exposure and Response Prevention Treatment (ERP) for OCD, Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy for PTSD, the combined DBT-PE protocol, Radically-Open DBT (RO-DBT), and has worked at clinics specializing in DBT, health psychology, and anxiety, OCD, and PTSD treatment.
Dr. Pincus has published several peer-reviewed journal articles on the dissemination and implementation of Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in community health clinics, through the Center for the Study and Treatment of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She has also published book chapters and presented at professional conferences. She is an active member of the International Society for the Implementation and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (ISITDBT) and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).