Cecily Portillo (She/Her/Hers)

Dr. Cecily Portillo is a licensed psychologist in private practice who practices in New York, Connecticut and FL (Telehealth certificate). Dr. Portillo is an Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), where she works with children, adolescents and families. Moreover, she works with individuals experiencing symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma and severe emotion dysregulation. In treatment, Dr. Portillo pulls flexibly from a variety of evidence based treatments, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and trauma informed treatments, such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE).

Dr. Portillo also specializes in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which is an evidence based treatment for individuals who struggle with emotion dysregulation and as a result engage in suicidal and/or non-suicidal self-injurious behavior and other serious behaviors. At this time, Dr. Portillo is a DBT team lead at NYP/CUIMC where she oversees and leads a team of clinicians delivering DBT treatment, ensuring the team adheres to DBT principles and practices to maintain high quality care for patients. She provides comprehensive DBT treatment at CUIMC/NYP and provides DBT-informed therapy in private-practice; she is happy to share the difference between these approaches.

She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Hofstra University and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at The Center for Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (CCDBT), where she provided individual CBT and DBT and co-led DBT skills groups for adolescents and adults. Her pre-doctoral internship was completed at Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) where she worked with adolescents and adults with severe mental illness and complex trauma in inpatient and outpatient. She has also trained at : Sagamore Children's Psychiatric Center, Hofstra University's Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic and Northwell Health's Behavioral Health College Partnership program (BHCP).