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Dr. Camilo Ortiz
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Dr. Ortiz’s brand-new chapter, with the great Lenore Skenazy, in the new book, Mind the Children. Thirteen amazing chapters on why kids are struggling and what to do about it.
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About Dr. Camilo Ortiz
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Camilo Ortiz, Ph.D., ABPP, is a tenured associate professor of psychology at Long Island University, and he is on the faculty at New York University (NYU). He is board-certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology and is a licensed psychologist in New York, New Jersey, and Florida (teletherapy).
Dr. Ortiz is also a fellow at the Archbridge Institute’s Human Flourishing Lab and the clinical director at the Open Therapy Institute. His scholarship focuses on child anxiety and disruptive behavior, parenting, and cognitive behavior therapy for children and adults. He is the co-developer of Independence Therapy, a revolutionary new approach to treating child anxiety through “mega-doses” of child independence.
Dr. Ortiz received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a B.S. in Human Development from Cornell University. He completed a predoctoral internship at Montefiore Medical Center and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Stony Brook University before joining the faculty at LIU.
Dr. Ortiz frequently appears in national media to discuss child anxiety and what we can do to turn the tide against it.
Click here to read his New York Times invited op-ed on Independence Therapy
Media appearances
Dr. Camilo Ortiz’s recent articles & publications
Pediatric elimination disorders. A practical guide to CBT in the schools
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Parental Punishment: Don’t Throw Out the Baby with the Bathwater.
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Intensive Group Behavioral Treatment for Older Youth with Selective Mutism: An Open Trial.
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A Novel Independence Intervention to Treat Child Anxiety: A Nonconcurrent Multiple Baseline Evaluation.
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Mind the Children: How to Think About the Youth Mental Health Collapse.
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A New Transdiagnostic Treatment Target for Child Anxiety: Independence.
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This Simple Fix Could Help Anxious Kids.
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The Secret to Parenting: Do Less of It
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