Personal Biography
Kelsey Armusewicz, PhD, is the Assistant Director of Trauma Services and the Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI) and the Director of Psychology Training at GABI at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Armusewicz’s clinical expertise includes the impact of trauma on early attachment relationships and interventions to support the parent-child relationship. As the Assistant Director of GABI, Dr. Armusewicz works with parents and their children from birth through three years old, with seven sites across all five New York City boroughs. She is also actively involved in training clinical staff in the effective implementation of GABI.
After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and English from Clark University in 2011, Dr. Armusewicz earned her Master of Arts in Psychology at the New School for Social Research in 2015. She remained at this institution to earn her Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology in 2020, completing a psychology internship at Nassau University Medical Center the same year. Following this, Dr. Armusewicz completed a postdoctoral fellowship in GAB at the Rose F. Kennedy Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center at Montefiore Einstein.
Dr. Armusewicz’s research focuses on the effective training and dissemination of GABI and providing quality psychotherapeutic care in community-based children’s mental health. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and she has shared her work through abstracts, poster presentations and national and international invited presentations.
Dr. Armusewicz is a member of the American Psychological Association.