Rebecca S. Hershberg

Dr. Hershberg has been helping parents with their kids (and vice versa) for more than two decades through her extensive work in private practice, schools, primary care pediatrics, and community-based organizations.

Prior to founding her current practice, she served as the Director of Training and Quality for Healthy Steps at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, an infant and toddler preventive mental health program that gained national and international attention for its integration of early childhood mental health professionals within primary care pediatrics. While at Montefiore, she held an assistant professorship in the Department of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she taught both pediatric residents and medical students.

Dr. Hershberg grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she attended Trinity School (K-12), and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale University, from which she graduated summa cum laude. She obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia and completed her pre-doctoral internship at Bellevue Hospital Center and the New York University Child Study Center. After her training, she worked in New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and was a clinical instructor of psychology in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine.

Dr. Hershberg cares deeply about the need to break intergenerational cycles of trauma, and believes social justice and anti-racism work plays a critical role in creating a better world for children and families. In 2020, she was trained by Dr. Dana Crawford in Crawford Bias Reduction Theory, and her efforts to prioritize these principles and perspectives are ongoing.

She is the author of The Tantrum Survival Guide (Guilford Press), and has been published widely, including in The New York Times, and on Parents.Com and TODAY Parents. She has been featured as a guest on several podcasts, as well as on WAMC Public Radio and Good Day Wake Up. She currently lives in lower Westchester with her husband and two sons, who keep her busier – though also smiling! – more than any of the above.