Current Postdocs: 2025-26 Academic Year

Jessica Reed received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the Graduate School of Professional Psychology and completed her predoctoral internship at Montefiore Einstein. Jess has trained across the lifespan in a wide range of settings and levels of acuity. Her clinical interests include trauma-informed, attachment-based, and psychodynamic approaches, with a particular specialization in parent–infant psychotherapy. She is deeply committed to supporting caregivers in attuning to and reflecting on their children’s emotional needs, strengthening early relational bonds, and fostering secure attachment. Her work is grounded in a culturally responsive, strengths-based framework and integrates reflective functioning, mentalization, and intergenerational trauma perspectives. Jess is eager to deepen her knowledge of perinatal mental health, high-risk pregnancy, and the complex emotional experiences of vulnerable women across the reproductive lifespan.

Elisa Cameron-Niang (she/her) received her PhD in clinical psychology from the City College of New York, CUNY and completed her predoctoral internship at Montefiore Einstein. She is also a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Her clinical training has focused on working with individuals throughout the lifespan and she has specialized in supporting individuals in the perinatal period, couples, families, and those from BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities. Dr. Cameron-Niang is committed to providing inclusive, compassionate, and trauma-informed care and approaches her clinical work with a blend of relational and psychodynamic principles, mentalization focused interventions, and cognitive and behavioral techniques.

Dr. Emma Peabody earned her Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology from William James College, where her dissertation examined psychosocial functioning and trauma exposure among adults with bipolar-spectrum disorders. She completed her undergraduate studies at Tufts University, graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Dr. Peabody completed her predoctoral internship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where she provided individual and couples therapy to adults within both outpatient and high-acuity inpatient settings. Her training emphasized integrative treatment—drawing from psychodynamic conceptualization and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)—to address complex presentations including mood, personality, and trauma-related disorders. Her prior clinical training includes externships in Massachusetts at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, and McLean Hospital, where she gained extensive experience with adults providing psychotherapy and conducting neuropsychological and psychodiagnostics assessments. Across these settings, Dr. Peabody has worked with individuals coping with interpersonal, developmental, and medical trauma, utilizing evidence-based and relational approaches to foster resilience and recovery. 

Belinda Hernandez, Ph.D. (she/her) is a clinical–research postdoctoral fellow working on the Culturally-Optimizing DBT for Adolescents (CODA) project at Montefiore Medical Center and Rutgers University. She earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia and completed her predoctoral internship in the 3East DBT Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hernandez’s clinical and research interests focus on improving emotion dysregulation among youth exhibiting externalizing and suicidal behaviors, with an emphasis on culturally responsive practices and the evaluation and optimization of DBT. She has extensive experience working with youth and families presenting with complex mental health needs across a variety of multidisciplinary settings, including outpatient, partial hospital, and inpatient levels of care. She is thrilled to be part of the Montefiore team and serving the Bronx and surrounding New York communities.

Catherine E. O’Brien, Ph.D. is a second-year Neuropsychology Post-Doctoral Fellow. She graduated from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University’s Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program where she specialized in Neuropsychology. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine (neuropsychology track) where she established expertise in the assessment of a variety of neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. Prior to internship, she completed expansive pre-doctoral practicum training at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and the Harbor Healthcare Veteran’s Affairs Hospital in Brooklyn, NY.  Over the course of her training, she has built subspecialty competencies in the assessment and diagnosis of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders in individuals with complex medical histories. She particularly enjoys working with older adults seeking evaluations for memory disorders and those being evaluated for liver and kidney transplant surgery. At Montefiore, she collaborates with psychiatry, neurology, organ transplant, hematology-oncology, and rheumatology teams to serve the Bronx’s diverse patient population. 

William Katzman, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow at Connecting and Reflecting Experience (CARE), a bi-generational, transdiagnostic, mentalizing-focused group parenting program. He earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University–Brooklyn, where his dissertation explored how masculine ideologies influence fathers’ capacity to attune to their children’s emotional expressions. As a researcher, Dr. Katzman has published manuscripts and book chapters focused on childhood trauma, attachment, and mentalization, with a growing emphasis on understanding and supporting fathers in their caregiving roles. Dr. Katzman has extensive clinical experience with children, adolescents, and families across inpatient, outpatient, foster care, and hospital settings. He completed his predoctoral internship on the Child Track at Hartford Hospital’s Institute of Living and Connecticut Children’s Hospital, where he received specialized training in child and adolescent inpatient psychology, pediatric psychology, and comprehensive psychological assessment. His clinical work is grounded in psychodynamic and attachment-based approaches, with a focus on promoting secure attachment by fostering capacities for mentalization.