Dr. Carolyn B. Sorkin

Dr. Carolyn B. Sorkin, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides psychotherapy to individuals and their families ages ranging from 6 – 90. In addition to her private practice, Dr. Sorkin is also the Director of the Child and Adolescent Externship for the William Alanson White Child and Family Center. Her specialties include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, interpersonal and family-based difficulties, school concerns, and parenting. 

She received her PhD from The New School for Social Research and has been trained in CBT, DBT, and interpersonal/relational psychoanalytic techniques. She works from an attachment-based perspective with a focus on attunement and repairs. Dr. Sorkin completed her training at Bellevue Hospitals where she worked inpatient, outpatient, and in psychiatric emergency rooms for children, adolescents and adults. 

Sorkin Psychological Services, PLLC.  1/2024 - present

Founder

· Private practice for adults as well as for children, adolescents and their families

· Offer both in person and zoom sessions

The William Alanson White Institute Child and Family Center (WAWI)

Director of the Child and Adolescent Externship 9/2023- present

· Oversee the WAWI Child and Adolescent externship which consists of 4-5 doctoral students. This training program offers a comprehensive externship of 20hrs/week. Externs gain clinical experience seeing 2-3 patients in individual psychotherapy from an Interpersonal perspective and have substantial contact with parents and schools (when indicated). Externs do a minimum of three psychoeducational evaluations, and there is weekly individual and group supervision.

· Organize externship course schedule, clinical and testing supervisors as well as group supervision

· Hold mentorship meetings 2-3 times during externship

· WAWI CAPT Executive team member

Rennicke & Associates

Senior Staff and Supervising  Psychologist 2021-2023

· Supervised three clinicians in training per week including post docs and social workers Trained and oversaw intakes and intake coordinator

· Assisted director in strategic meeting 1x per month Participated in supervisors meeting 2x per month

Seminar: Healing Relational Trauma  

Trainer: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT 

Seminar: Essential Skills-Five Modules 

Trainer: Ronald Frederick, PhD 

Training:Training to provide practical           skills for the application of AEDP as

well as a thorough immersion in the theory underlying the practice. 

Immersion: The Dyadic Repair of Attachment Trauma: Healing at the

Edge of Transformational Experience

Trainer: Diana Fosha, PhD 

Training:Training in working at the edge of transformational experience and

how to use body-based affective transformational markers to guide

interventions. Use AEDP’s rigorous transformational phenomenology to

closely track clinical processes. 

Level 2 Training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy 

Trainer: Daniel Hughes, Ph.D.

Training: In-depth training on attachment focused family therapy specifically

designed for children with past traumatic experiences and struggles with

attachment, trust, and loss.

Level 1 Training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy 

Trainer: Courtney Rennicke, Ph.D.

Training: In-depth training on attachment focused family therapy specifically

designed to lessen conflict and strengthen connection within the parent child

relationship.

Pre-Doctoral Internship at NYU-Bellevue Hospital Center

Provided weekly individual and family outpatient psychotherapy for children,

adolescents, and adults integrating psychodynamic, attachment-based, and family systems approaches with more direct cognitive behavioral interventions. Co-led coping and social skills group for 10 – 12-year-olds with ADHD and comorbid anxiety, mood, and behavioral challenges. Provided weekly dyadic therapy for parent-child dyads with

a focus on fostering improved communication and strengthening connection. Provided individual, group, and family therapy on child/adolescent and adult inpatient units. Served as primary clinician/evaluator in the child/adolescent psychiatric emergency

room performing risk assessment, diagnostic evaluation/clarification, and short-term individual and /or family interventions including safety planning and parent-child communication work. Conducted psychological assessments in an adult psychiatric emergency room. 

Clinical Psychology Trainee, The William Alanson White Institute Child and Family Center

Provided outpatient psychotherapy to children and adolescents aged 5-18 and their families. Conducted comprehensive psychoeducational and neuropsychological

assessments.

Clinical Psychology Trainee, New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Provided individual psychotherapy for adults and adolescents in an outpatient setting as well as weekly short-term therapy for students in a specialized NYC school setting (K-12). Conducted in-depth psychological intakes, psychoeducational and neuropsychological testing batteries for adolescents.

Clinical Psychology Trainee, New School Counseling Center

Provided individual psychotherapy for college and graduate level art, music, and fashion design students. Conducted psychoeducational and neuropsychological testing batteries.

Clinical Psychology Trainee, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Psychiatric Recovery

Center

Conducted individual and group psychotherapy for adults with severe psychopathology. Administered neuropsychological testing batteries for adults.

Clinical Psychology Trainee, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 

Eating Disorder Program

Provided individual and family therapy for adolescents and adults with eating disorders and other comorbid diagnosis.

Clinical Psychology Trainee, Beth Israel Medical Center

Co-led psychotherapy groups on a dual-diagnosis inpatient unit. Conducted outpatient screenings for psychotherapy research program including: SCID I and II, Adult Attachment Interview, and Relational Self Interview. 

Student Volunteer, Columbia University Community Support System Program

Co-led group sessions in day program that provides comprehensive psychiatric services for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.

Transference Focused Therapy (TFT) 

Training at Bellevue Hospital by Dr. Anna Odom 

Didactic training in Child Development, Child Therapy and Intensive Child

Testing at the William Alanson White Institute Child and Family Center led by Dr. Danial Gensler 

Adult psychoanalytic class training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Training by Dr. Vicki Gluhoski 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders-CBT (CBT-E)

Training by Dr. Tom Hildebrandt 

Family-Based Therapy for Eating Disorders

Training at the Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating and at Mount Sinai Hospital 

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Six-session training at Mount Sinai

Boston University, B.S. B.A.

The New School, Clinical Psychology Masters of Arts

The New School, Ph.D. in Clinical PsychologyOur life transitions sessions help clients navigate major life changes, such as divorce, retirement, or career changes. We provide clients with the support and guidance they need to move through these transitions with confidence and clarity.