About

I am a clinical psychologist licensed in New York State providing psychotherapy for adults and adolescents. I am committed to building meaningful therapeutic relationships that support growth, insight, and lasting change. I work with individuals navigating life transitions, trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges, with particular attention to how early attachment relationships shape current experiences and patterns. I’m interested in exploring the areas where you feel stuck and working together to shine a light on deeper conflicts so you can move forward with greater understanding and confidence.

My primary orientation is integrative with an emphasis on relational and psychodynamic processes. While I provide therapy to individuals across the lifespan, I also offer parent coaching focused on fostering healthy attachment, and I have specialized experience supporting mothers during the perinatal period. My approach is grounded in warmth and collaboration.

I have experiences working with a broad range of diagnoses across hospital, outpatient, and community-based settings. I currently hold a faculty position as an Assistant Professor in Department of Pediatrics (Developmental Medicine) at Montefiore Hospital. I’ve held previous roles as Assistant Director of a trauma based intervention tasked with training clinical staff in the effective implementation of evidence based practice, and directed and trained psychology doctoral students in trauma-based and parent-child interventions.

Background and Experience

  • I received my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2020, completing a psychology internship at Nassau University Medical Center the same year.

    Following this, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI) at the Rose F. Kennedy Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center at Montefiore Einstein.

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Montefiore Medical Center  
    The University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    September 2023 - Present

  • Regional Presentations

    Presentation to NYC Early Intervention Providers: “The effects of trauma on young children, ADAPT Community Network, Brooklyn, NY, April 2025.

    Presentation at the Early Intervention Training Institute (EITI): “Effects of trauma on early childhood development and trauma informed care,” Rose F Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Hospital, April 2024 & April 2025.

    Presentation to Montefiore Pediatric Cardiology: “Supporting Resilience in Parents and Children Birth through Three, Citywide: Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI)” 1/10/2025.

    Montefiore Pediatric Grand Rounds: “Supporting Resilience in Parents and Children Birth through Three, Citywide: Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI)” 1/3/2024

    Presentation to Citywide ACS Prevention and Community Based Organizations: Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI) as Trauma Informed Practice, July 2021 through September 2025.


    International Presentations:

    Symposium Presenter: “Validation of a competence coding system for Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI) Clinicians.” 9th International Attachment Conference in Vancouver, B.C., July 2019.

    Symposium Presenter: “RCS: Validation of a competence coding system for Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI) Clinicians.” Society for Psychotherapy Research Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2019.

    Symposium Presenter: The REARING Coding System (RCS): Validation of a competency coding system for the Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI©). 8th International Attachment Conference, London, UK, June 2017.

    Poster Presentations and other Symposia:

    1. Armusewicz, K., Bate, J., Ganz, R., Usem, J., Steele, H., Steele, M., & Murphy, A. Towards validation of a competence coding system using the rearing model of therapeutic action for GABI clinicians. Poster presented at the 7th International Attachment Conference, New York City, NY, August 2015.

    2. Hoffman, S., Armusewicz, K., Steele, H., Steele, M. & Murphy, A. Development of an online training platform for the Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI) for vulnerable families. Poster presented at the 7th International Attachment Conference, New York City, NY, August 2015.

    3. Armusewicz, K., Hoffman, S., Steele, H., Steele, M., & Murphy, A. Integrating technology into a learning collaborative to disseminate and help implement a trauma-informed intervention to prevent child maltreatment: GABI© and the UDEMY platform. Poster presented at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 32nd Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November 2016.

    4. Murphy, A., Allman-Bubbico, B., Bercun, J., Justin, L., Milne, D., Knafo, H., Steele, M., Steele, H., Bate, J., Kinsey, M., Armusewicz, K., Nikitiades, A., Lopez, L., & DelNero, J. From Playroom to Playback: The Use of Video Feedback in the Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI). Poster presented at the annual Zero-to-Three conference, San Diego, CA, December 2017.

    5. Armusewicz, K., Bate, J., Steele, M., Steele, H., & Lopez, L. The REARING Coding System (RCS): A competency coding system for the Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI). Poster presented at the annual Society for Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration Conference, New York, NY, June 2018.

    6. Armusewicz, K., Bate, J., Steele, M., Steele, H., & Lopez, L. The REARING Coding System (RCS): A competency coding system for the Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI). Poster presented at the annual International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA, June 2018.

    7. Wade, A.C, Xu, Y., Crespo, H., & Armusewicz, K. Child welfare redefined: promoting parent-child therapy as a pathway to support and family empowerment. Zero to Three Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 2025.

    8. Staniaszek, K., & Armusewicz, K. (June 2025). “Building a Bridge to an Island: Fostering Relational Trust with a Patient with Avoidant Attachment.” Symposium: “Trauma and Therapy with Children and Parents: Understanding Pathways and Interventions.” Society for Psychotherapy Research Conference. Kraków, Poland.

  • Original Communications in Reviewed Journals

    1. Wisdom, J.P., Lewandowski, R.E., Pollock, M., Acri, M., Shorter, P., Olin, S.S., Armusewicz,K., Horwitz, S. & Hoagwood, K. (2014). What family support specialists do: Examining service delivery. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 41(1), 21-31.

    2. Kutash, K., Acri, M., Pollock, M., Armusewicz, K., Olin, S.S., & Hoagwood, K.E. (2014). Quality indicators for multidisciplinary team functioning in community-based children’s mental health services. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research.

    3. Olin, S. S., Kutash, K., Pollock, M., Burns, B. J., Kuppinger, A., Craig, N., Purdy, F., Armusewicz, K., Wisdom, J.P., & Hoagwood, K. E. (2014). Developing quality indicators for family support services in community team-based mental health care. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 1-14. doi: 10.1007/s10488-013-0501-9

    4. Olin, S. S., Williams, N., Pollock, M., Armusewicz, K., Kutash, K., Glisson, C., & Hoagwood, K. E. (2014). Quality indicators for family support services and their relationship to organizational social context. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 1-12.

    5. Armusewicz, K., Steele, M., Steele, H., & Murphy, A. (2022). Assessing therapist and clinician competency in parent-infant psychotherapy: The REARING coding system (RCS) for the group attachment-based intervention (GABI). Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 25(1).