Postdoctoral Fellowship Residency Programs

The Addiction Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship will span Montefiore Einstein’s extensive network of addiction treatment programs to provide training and experience in the assessment and treatment of substance use disorders. With a focus on harm reduction and patient-centered care, the fellow will support Montefiore Einstein’s Substance Abuse Treatment Program (SATP) and Wakefield Recovery Center (WRC), which together provide care to over 1,200 individuals with substance use disorders throughout the Bronx.

These programs include opioid treatment programs and intensive outpatient programs (IOP), offering integrated counseling, addiction medicine, primary care and psychiatric services to a diverse population. Fellows work closely with our dedicated team of addiction professionals to assist patients in developing the skills they need to reach their recovery goals. Our addiction treatment programs offer evidence-based care, integrating addiction medications, such as methadone and buprenorphine, with empirically supported behavioral interventions.

The fellow will receive training and experience in harm reduction approaches, as well as group and individual therapy using motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for substance use and relapse prevention, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and community reinforcement and family training (CRAFT). Fellows also learn to conduct comprehensive substance use-focused evaluations and risk assessments.

Fellows have opportunities for research, program development and supported supervision of clinical psychology externs. They spend approximately 60% of their time in direct clinical care and engage in weekly individual and group supervision as well as weekly educational lectures.

Fellows on this track are based out of the Child/Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Division (COPD) on Montefiore’s Moses Campus. 75% of their clinical time will be spent conducting evidenced-based outpatient psychotherapy services within the Anxiety and Mood Program (AMP). This includes subspeciality programs including comprehensive DBT for adolescents, Arts and Integrated Medicine, Becoming and Emerging Adult at Montefiore Parenting. Fellows will have the opportunity to deliver individual, family, caregiver only, group, and multi-family groups based on a patient’s unique treatment plans. Care at the COPD is collaborative and multidisciplinary, including psychology, psychiatry, and social work. Fellows will attend weekly supervision, staff meetings, DBT-A consultation team, and bi-weekly AMP multidisciplinary rounds.

25% of fellow’s clinical time will be spent in the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore on the Eating Disorders Program at Montefiore’s (EDPM) inpatient stabilization consultation service. This service includes fast-paced, multidisciplinary diagnostic assessment, individual, caregiver and family therapy, meal coaching, and staff support and education. Fellows will attend weekly EDPM multidisciplinary rounds meetings, supervision, monthly multidisciplinary ED case conferences. No prior eating disorders experience is required.

Opportunities to participate in program development and scholarly and research work are also available across programs.

Prior experience in empirically supported child / adolescent treatment (e.g., CBT, DBT) is strongly encouraged.

Track facilitator: Lauren B. Yadlosky, PhD, lyadlosk@montefiore.org (through June 2026)

Sandra Pimentel, PhD, spimente@montefiore.org (beginning July 2026)

The eating disorders (ED) fellowship track will consist of 100% clinical time spent in the Eating Disorders Program at Montefiore (EDPM), located (beginning Fall 2026) at Montefiore’s Westchester Square Campus.  

Fellows will participate in standard outpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospital levels of care using empirically supported treatments for eating disorders (i.e., FBT, CBT-E) and other adjunctive treatments (i.e., DBT, ERP, SPACE, CBT). Clinical interventions include individual, family, caregiver only, group, multi-family group, and community meals. Care at EDPM is fast-paced and multidisciplinary, including adolescent medicine and family and social medicine physicians, registered dietician/nutritionists, psychiatry, and social work.  

EDPM serves individuals with primary eating disorders over the age of 6. Most of the fellow’s work will be outpatient with youth and emerging adults; however, opportunities to work with older adults and on the inpatient medical stabilization consult service on the Moses campus are available. Opportunities to participate in EDPM program development and research endeavors are also available.

In addition to clinical endeavors and fellowship didactics and professional development experiences, fellows will participate in weekly multidisciplinary rounds meetings, DBT consultation team, individual supervision, and monthly multidisciplinary case conferences. Fellows will have the opportunity to supervise EDPM externs.  

Experience with eating disorders or comprehensive DBT is strongly encouraged though not required.

Track facilitator: Lauren B. Yadlosky, PhD, lyadlosk@montefiore.org 

The two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at MMC is designed to educate and train individuals to meet the competencies necessary for the specialized practice of clinical neuropsychology, specifically preparing the fellow in a manner that will ensure eligibility for board certification. Over the course of the two-year program, the fellow will achieve a level of professional independence enabling them to compete effectively for early-career neuropsychology positions, especially in hospital-based roles involving close collaboration with physicians and medical staff. The fellow will also gain experience in supervising more junior neuropsychology trainees. The fellow’s weekly hours will be divided roughly into 80% clinical services, 10% research, and 10% educational activities.

The educational philosophy of the neuropsychology fellowship program is scientist-practitioner. It follows guidelines in clinical neuropsychology established by the Houston Conference on Specialty Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology. The primary goal of the neuropsychology program is to prepare fellows for professional practice in neuropsychology, ultimately leading to board certification by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) / American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN). Our program is designed to equip neuropsychologists with the skills and knowledge to function independently in various roles, including clinician, consultant, teacher, and program developer, all while recognizing the unique needs of underserved populations.

The primary objective of the neuropsychology fellowship program is to facilitate the development and refinement of a wide range of professional skills specific to the field of clinical neuropsychology. These skills empower graduating fellows to effectively operate within various professional contexts commonly encountered by contemporary neuropsychologists.

Our program offers comprehensive training in clinical neuropsychology, including both mandatory and optional didactic activities. Additionally, it provides research training that is directly relevant to the discipline. The program’s ultimate goal is to produce trainees who can successfully obtain licensure in the state where they practice, secure positions as neuropsychologists, and achieve board certification in Clinical Neuropsychology within seven years of program completion.

Track facilitator: Bryan Freilich, PsyD ABPP-CN, bfreilic@montefiore.org

The Psychosomatic Medicine Postdoctoral Residency Program encompasses training experiences across various inpatient and outpatient medical services. Fellows enrolled in this Program will work alongside three licensed psychologists and a psychiatrist embedded within the Montefiore Einstein Center for Transplantation. Residents will provide inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy and pre-surgical psychological assessments to transplant patients, transplant candidates and living kidney/liver donors.

The Montefiore Einstein Center for Transplantation is recognized as a center of excellence and has some of the nation’s best outcomes for transplant rates and survival after transplantation. We have a proven commitment to serving the Bronx and its neighboring communities and increasing access to transplantation through an interdisciplinary approach to evaluation and care. Notably, our Montefiore Einstein Transplant Recovery Integrated Care Clinic provides multidisciplinary care for liver transplant recipients who have underlying alcohol-related liver disease and is considered a model program nationally.

Fellows work with the consultation/liaison psychiatry team to provide bedside therapy and assessment of medical inpatients throughout the hospital. They work alongside psychiatrists, a social worker and a psychologist, along with trainees of each discipline, in providing care for patients presenting with varying psychiatric/psychological conditions that impact their medical treatment. These conditions may include substance use, delirium/cognitive concerns, severe mental illness and eating disorders. Fellows will become adept at performing capacity evaluations, supporting patients with their adjustments to medical illnesses and facilitating interdisciplinary communication with primary teams. Every effort is made to assign cases to fellows based on their particular interests to support long-term career goals.

Research and program development experiences are welcome across all of the rotations. A minimum of one hour of individual plus one hour of group supervision will be available. Fellows also have a range of opportunities to provide mentorship, supervision and teaching to psychology interns and interdisciplinary trainees. They will become comfortable working independently and within teams in support of starting an independent practice within an interdisciplinary/integrated medical setting.

The reproductive psychology track is a one-year postdoctoral fellowship that will work within the intersection of women’s mental health, consultation-liaison psychiatry and ambulatory perinatal mental health. Fellows work with Montefiore Einstein’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology & Women’s Health.

Montefiore Einstein’s Division of Women’s Mental Health offers targeted mental healthcare to patients across the female reproductive lifecycle with an emphasis on the perinatal period, which confers increased risk for incident and recurrent psychiatric illness. The reproductive psychology postdoctoral fellow will also learn to provide evidence-based care to patients experiencing psychiatric disorders exacerbated by menses (e.g. premenstrual dysphoric disorder and major depression), those experiencing fertility concerns and those in the menopausal transition experiencing mood symptoms.

The reproductive psychology postdoctoral fellowship allows the fellow to become integral to multidisciplinary teams across the Moses Campus and Weiler Campus at Montefiore Einstein. The fellow will receive training in delivering evidence-based treatment and conducting brief assessments with female patients navigating complex reproductive mood and trauma-related presentations. Candidates will also gain experience co-facilitating an inpatient antepartum support group and providing therapy to patients enrolled in our new perinatal intensive outpatient program (IOP). The fellow will work directly with the Division of Women’s Mental Health leadership to develop a data-driven triage process for post-intensive care unit (ICU) and fourth-trimester patients to help increase access to expedited and quality perinatal mental health services.

Over the year, the fellow will attend a track-specific lecture series and acquire certification as a perinatal mental health specialist. The fellow will also continue cultivating clinical expertise on both campuses’ multidisciplinary inpatient medical consultation and liaison teams (i.e., providing brief bedside psychotherapeutic interventions, differential diagnoses, rapid disposition, etc.). In addition, the fellow will work collaboratively with the Ambulatory Consults, Urgent Treatment and Evaluations (ACUTE) team to offer short-term psychotherapeutic interventions to patients seeking bridge care services. The fellow will further engage in program development, research initiatives and the supervision of predoctoral interns and medical students to enhance their training experience.

This reproductive psychology postdoctoral fellowship allows early career professionals to acquire specialized training in health psychology and perinatal mental health at a major academic medical center while offering responsive clinical care to patients during a medically and psychologically vulnerable time. Completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Montefiore Einstein provides a unique opportunity to consider the multitude of intersectional factors and systemic barriers to equitable care that are impacting the mental health of patients.

The THRIVE clinical program is a transdiagnostic specialty program that offers principle-driven, flexibly delivered, evidence-based psychotherapy for patients between the ages of 18 and 64 who are seeking treatment for trauma-related distress, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD, racism-related stress and trauma, and trauma related to marginalization based on gender expression.

Fellows receive training in and have opportunities to use several evidence-based therapies for trauma, including skills training for affective and interpersonal regulation (STAIR), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), written exposure therapy (WET) and prolonged exposure (PE).

THRIVE is also dedicated to providing patients who are at high risk for trauma exposure and who face systemic challenges accessing gender-affirming and evidence-based psychotherapy. The fellow will conduct pre-surgical evaluations for individuals seeking gender-affirming surgery and offer gender-affirming, trauma-informed therapy for those interested. The fellow will also co-lead psychotherapy groups within the THRIVE Program.

Our Program is committed to excellence in training postdoctoral fellows interested in developing therapeutic skills to disseminate evidence-based trauma treatments effectively. Training is principle-driven and flexible.

This fellowship will follow a scientist-practitioner model, providing a balance of clinical, training and research activities. The fellow will receive weekly individual and group supervision on clinical interventions and a research project/program development. There will also be opportunities for developing supervisory and teaching skills. Fellows will spend approximately 60% of their time providing direct clinical service, with the remaining time dedicated to administration, research, training and supervision.