Dr. Hilary Vidair is the director of program development at CBA and a psychologist with expertise in using evidence-based practices with children, adolescents, and their families. She has experience conducting cognitive-behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy with children, adolescents, and adults for a variety of problems, including anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, family and relational conflict, emotion dysregulation, trauma, and suicidality.
She is also an associate professor at the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at LIU Post, where she teaches a child and adolescent psychotherapy course and supervises doctoral students in cognitive-behavioral therapy and behavioral parent training. She earned her Ph.D. in combined clinical and school psychology from Hofstra University and completed a 3-year National Institute of Mental Health research fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Dr. Vidair co-authored an upcoming book through the American Psychological Association focused on deliberate practice in behavioral parent training.