Profile of Dr. Alina Yurkovsky
Dr. Alina Yurkovsky is licensed in clinical psychology in both Florida and New York. She began her training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) at Bellevue Hospital in New York City beginning in 2003 and pursued more intensive training through the Behavioral Tech Institute from 2019 through 2021. Dr. Yurkovsky has an M.A. in Special Education/Learning Disabilities from American University and a Psy.D from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology (Yeshiva University) in School-Child Clinical Psychology. Dr. Yurkovsky served as School Counselor in elite private schools in New York City (externat Dalton School), New Jersey (The Dwight Englewood School and Montclair Kimberley Academy) and served as Director of Student Support at Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton. All the while, she pursued a variety of additional post-doctoral training programs and uses evidence-based approaches in her clinical work such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), DBT as well as Hypnotherapy. Dr. Yurkovsky specializes in treating Anxiety. Her background in working with students with learning and attention disorders provided the foundation for understanding that everyone learns differently and everyone absorbs skills for emotional regulation differently. She uses creativity, humor and multi-sensory approaches in therapy, to suit whatever modality works best for her clients. Dr. Yurkovsky is deeply invested in helping children, teens and adults to develop the skills necessary for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and most importantly, intrapersonal effectiveness — the ability to have a better relationship internally, within the self, so that they ultimately learn how to approach life’s challenges from a place of security and confidence. Dr. Yurkovsky is bilingual in English & Russian.
