About Dr. Castaldo

• Ph.D. New York University
• MS - Columbia University
• Over 25 years experience in couples, family, and child therapy
• Adjunct Faculty - Rutgers & Columbia Universities
• Previous Director of Pediatric Social Work - Babies and Children's Hospital - NY Presbyterian
• Previous Clinical Director of Children's Aid and Adoption Society of New Jersey
• Author of "Divorced Without Children: Solution Focused Therapy with Women at Midlife"
• Contributor: A Handbook of Relational Therapy for Children in Foster Care

Detailed background

Dr. Debra Castaldo (also known as: “Dr. Deb”) is a nationally recognized relationship therapist, who has provided guidance to others for over 25 years as a couples, family, and child therapist. She brings a deep sensitivity to her work with women due to her own life experiences in long term marriage as a young adult, infertility and childlessness, separation and divorce, and dating as a single woman at midlife. She is deeply passionate about her advocacy for women’s growth and development of personal relationships.

Dr. Deb is currently the host of Solution Talk on RocklandWorldRadio.com and has been a frequent guest on Family Talk and Real Life on Comcast CN8.

She is also the author of Divorced without Children: Solution Focused Therapy with Women at Midlife, based on her groundbreaking research on single women without children. She has also written numerous articles such as Redefining Intimacy, ReBooting Your Marriage, and Hitting the Wall at Midlife, as well as Burnout Busting. Dr Debra Castaldo is also the author of Guidelines for Assessment of Foster and Adoptive Families for Placement of Sexually Abused Children and a contributor in A Handbook of Relational Therapy for Children in Foster Care, published by Child Welfare League of America.

Dr. Debra Castaldo received a Ph.D. from New York University in Clinical Social Work, a Master's Degree in Social Work from Columbia University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work from Westchester University. She also completed post graduate training at The Brief Family Therapy Center, Ackerman Institute for the Family, The New York Training Institute, and the Relational Life Institute.

Dr Castaldo has been an adjunct faculty member at Rutgers University School of Social Work since 2005, and at Columbia University from 1990 to 2008. She is an active team member of the Family Focused Grief Therapy Project at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. She has also been a Director of Social Work Programs, including Director of Pediatric Social Work at Babies and Children’s Hospital at New York Presbyterian. She has consulted and provided professional and personal growth seminars for numerous organizations including Aetna, Chase Bank, Raytheon, The Learning Annex, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, Rutgers University, The New Jersey State Police, and the National Family Therapy Networker Symposium.

She maintains a private practice in couples and family therapy as Director of the Center for Couples and Family Solutions in Midland Park and Englewood, New Jersey.

As an award-winning ballroom dancer, “Dr Deb” actively participates in regional and national dance competitions.

For more information about Dr. Castaldo, see her Dr. Deb Ballroom page