Camilo Ortiz, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Long Island University-Post. He is also a fellow with the Flourishing in Action project at the Archbridge Institute’s Human Flourishing Lab. His scholarship focuses on child anxiety and disruptive behavior, parenting, and cognitive behavior therapy. He is the developer of Independence Therapy, a revolutionary new approach to treating child anxiety through “mega-doses” of child independence.
Dr. Ortiz is a partner at Cognitive Behavioral Associates, located in Great Neck, NY, a group private psychology practice, specializing in treating anxiety, emotion dysregulation, disruptive behavior, and other concerns. He is also clinical director of the Open Therapy Institute, a clinical and training organization aimed at returning clinical psychology to its client-centered, non-ideological roots.
Dr. Ortiz is an outspoken critic of his own field of clinical psychology, focusing on its ideological capture and unscientific practices. He recently coauthored a chapter in the late Scott Lilienfeld’s book, Ideological and political bias in psychology: Nature, scope, and solutions.
Dr. Ortiz received a B.S. in Human Development from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He completed a pre-doctoral internship at Montefiore Medical Center and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Stony Brook University before joining the faculty at LIU-Post.
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