Jane Paley, Psy.D.
Jane Paley is the senior clinical supervisor in the Assessment Division at Interactive Discovery, a position she has co-coordinated since 2011. Dr. Paley earned a master’s degree in Special Education from Bank Street College of Education in 1994 and a doctoral degree in Child Clinical/School Psychology from New York University in 2004. For nearly a decade, she worked in the Marsha Winokur Learning Center and the Learning Resource Network of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, providing neuropsychological assessments, parent and school consultations, and therapeutic remediation to children from public, private, and parochial schools. From 2003 to 2011, Dr. Paley also served as the Brooklyn Clinical Coordinator for the Loss and Bereavement/Loss and Trauma program for Children and Adolescents at JBFCS.
A longtime proponent of bridging gaps between education and mental health, Dr. Paley has taught preschool, elementary, and high school students in special education and bilingual settings. She has also conducted workshops for teachers and taught School Consultation to graduate students at CUNY and New York University. At Interactive Discovery, Dr. Paley supervises comprehensive neuropsychological and psychoeducational assessments with children, adolescents, and adults, offering parent, teacher, and school consultations.
Committed to testing that is thorough, comprehensive, and practical, Dr. Paley aims to improve clients’ learning, self-awareness, and self-advocacy skills. She is equally committed to collaboration with peers, supervisees, families, and teachers in developing a thorough, integrated, and empathic understanding of a child or adolescent’s strengths and needs. Simultaneously, she questions and investigates the inherent biases and inequalities underlying current prevailing diagnostic categories and methods of assessment.
Dr. Paley worked with her first child in psychotherapy in 1994. For the past 15 years, has maintained a solo private practice in Brooklyn. She provides therapy using a variety of modalities and lenses to children, teens, and adults, specializing in areas such as learning and neurodiversity, attachment and parenting, loss and trauma, mood disorders, anxiety, life-stage transitions, and gender identity.
A member of multiple peer supervision groups, Dr. Paley actively participates in training sessions offered through the Trauma Center of the Justice Resource Institute (Needham, MA), the New York Center for the Study of Groups (an affiliate of the AK Rice Institute), Psychotherapy Networker, and Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI). She has presented at an annual forum co-sponsored by the Kinship Care program of JBFCS and the Brooklyn Grandparents’ Coalition and currently sits on the advisory board of the DADvocacy Consulting Group.
Dr. Paley is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA).
For additional clinical content written by Dr. Paley, check out these links!