Dr. Vicki Gluhoski is a clinical psychologist who practices in New York and New Jersey. She led the cognitive behavior therapy training program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center for over a decade. She received her PhD from SUNY Stony Brook.
After receiving her doctorate, Dr. Gluhoski completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive behavior therapy at the University of Pennsylvania with Aaron Beck, MD, the founder of cognitive behavior therapy. She obtained further post-doctoral training at Weill-Cornell Medical Center specializing in HIV/AIDS research and clinical work. She began her professional life at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, researching coping with cancer.
Dr. Gluhoski has been in private practice for over 25 years in New York City and 20 years in New Jersey. Her areas of specialization include anxiety and depressive disorders as well as coping with traumatic life events.
From 2006 to 2017, she was a faculty member in the Psychiatry department at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She was responsible for teaching, supervising, and mentoring psychology graduate students, psychiatry residents, and other clinical staff. In addition, she developed and supervised a research protocol for geriatric hoarding.
Currently she is an assistant clinical professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She serves as program director for the cognitive behavior therapy division of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership, as well as being on the faculty of the Program in Global Mental Health.
In addition to working with patients, Dr. Gluhoski offers private cognitive behavior therapy consultation, training, and supervision to mental health practitioners. She is active in disseminating cognitive behavior therapy worldwide, training clinicians in Africa as well as across the United States. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and is a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.
Dr. Gluhoski has published numerous articles and presented her work at both national and international conferences. She has twice received the Max Needleman award for excellence in teaching at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center.