About Me

Dr. Lichtman is an expert in the assessment of children and adolescents, and has spent decades consulting with private and public schools in the New York and New Jersey areas. She has developed an expertise in the assessment of adolescents and young adults who require documentation of a specific learning disability to receive extended time and other modifications for standardized tests, such as the SATs, GREs, and LSATs. In 2007, Dr. Lichtman was the recipient of the Leadership in School Psychology award from the New York Association of School Psychology, recognized for her pioneering work in interpreting the performance of children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds on standardized cognitive and educational tests.

Concurrently to her work in private practice, Dr. Lichtman was affiliated with the Kiryas Joel School District in Monroe, NY, for over 25 years as the founding Director of Psychological Services. Prior to this, Dr. Lichtman served in various professorship positions at Colgate University; Hofstra University; and Queens College.

Dr. Helen Lichtman has been practicing as a psychologist for over 30 years. Over the course of her career in private practice and as a school psychologist, Dr. Lichtman has developed the specialized skills required for treating individuals with Learning Disabilities, OCD and Panic Disorders, ADHD, Autism, Selective Mutism, and Tourette's Syndrome. Dr. Lichtman enlists the support of family members to maximize the progress of these individuals, and incorporates couples counseling when one or both partners are affected.

EDUCATION

Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology,

Yeshiva University

LANGUAGES

Yiddish

Hebrew

PUBLICATIONS

2013 Hassidic and Gifted, New York School Psychologist, 31 (3), p. 12.

2013 Hassidic Children, Standardized Testing and Curricular Issue, New York School Psychologist, 31 (3), pp 13-16.

2006 Assessment in Kiryas Joel, Nefesh News, August 2006 edition, pp.7-9.

1987 Separation Difficulty And Somatic Symptomatology In Survivor Families, Paper presented at the Post Traumatic stress Symposium at the 95th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, N.Y.C.

1984 Parental Communication of Holocaust Experiences And Personality Characteristic Among Second Generation Survivors, Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44 (11), 914-932

1983 Children Of Survivors Of The Nazi Holocaust – A Personality Study (Doctoral dissertation, Yeshiva University). Dissertation Abstracts International, 1983, 44(11), pp. 3523-33 (university microfilms No. DA 8405004).