Janet Klosko, PhD

Dr. Klosko is Co-Director of the Cognitive Therapy Center of Long Island and has a private practice in Manhattan.

She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Albany, and interned at the Brown University School of Medicine. While at Albany, she worked with David H. Barlow, Ph.D., researching and treating anxiety disorders with cognitive-behavioral therapy. She won the Albany Award for Excellence in Research, and the Dissertation Award from the American Psychological Association Section on Clinical Psychology as a Science. 

Since moving to New York in the late 1980's, Dr. Klosko has worked with Jeffrey Young, Ph.D., the founder of Schema Therapy, treating patients, supervising other therapists, and writing about schema therapy and cognitive therapy.  She is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies and a Certified Schema Therapist.

Dr. Klosko has published a number of professional and self-help books about cognitive therapy and schema therapy.

• Reinventing Your Life (Young & Klosko, 1994)

• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Depression (Klosko & Sanderson, 1999)

• Schema Therapy: A Practioner’s Guide (Young, Klosko, & Weishaar, 2003)

She has also published scientific articles on the assessment and treatment of anxiety. 

Dr. Klosko has a M.A. in English Literature from McGill University.