About Dr. Rombone

Dr. Rombone is a Clinical Psychologist in New York who holds a post-doctoral degree in couples & marital therapy and training in group therapy. She graduated from New York University with honors and from Teachers College, Columbia University with high distinction. She then completed her doctoral training, receiving a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University. As part of her doctoral training Dr. Rombone worked with young children and families at Queens Children’s Psychiatric Center. She also worked with adolescents in the Eating Disorders Unit at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where she primarily ran therapy groups and conducted research.

Dr. Rombone later completed her internship at the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System (Manhattan VA Medical Center), where she focused on understanding and treating trauma and worked with veterans from all combat eras in both individual and group therapy. She completed one of her internship rotations at NYU Medical Center, where she trained intensively in family therapy.

One of her favorite clinical rotations during internship was Consultation-Liaison, which focused on the mental well-being and care of patients with a combination of psychiatric and general medical conditions. This helped inspire great interest in the relationship between one’s physical and mental health, an interest that continues to represent an area of focus in her work today.

Subsequent to completing her clinical training, Dr. Rombone helped launch and was hired as the head psychologist at Columbia University Medical Center’s Buprenorphine Program. She noticed what she felt to be an unfortunate trend in the field of Addiction, specifically, for associated problems and dynamics and thus, those struggling with them, to be marginalized and labeled as opposed to treated kindly, respectfully and better understood. She felt this tendency further complicated an already-challenging individual, familial, societal and public health issue. She became dedicated to helping change both the approach to the problem and the narrative.

Dr. Rombone spent the next nine years serving as one of the Clinical Directors at NYSPI/Columbia University Medical Center’s Substance Treatment and Research Services in the Division on Substance Abuse. As part of her work she supervised and trained therapists and psychiatric residents on the clinical portions of a variety of research protocols. She also taught classes at New York University at the graduate level. All the while, Dr. Rombone maintained her private practice in New York City and on Long Island.

Dr. Rombone is currently in private practice in New York City and focuses her work on individuals, couples and groups. She offers both long-term and short-term therapy with individuals and couples, as well as private, customized couples intensives and group therapy. Dr. Rombone also teaches at the graduate and post-graduate levels, focusing on courses in Couples Therapy and Research, Addiction, and Personality. She is currently on faculty at Adelphi University in the Post-Doctoral Program in Couples & Marital Therapy and has completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Therapy.