About                    
Dr. Thomas Kot

Dr. Kot has been practicing Behavior Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in New Jersey for over 25 years.

He works with children, adolescents, and adults, on a wide range of psychological and behavioral issues and performs psychological and psycho-educational assessments.

Licensed in both NJ and NY, Dr. Kot is currently offering teletherapy services for individual therapy and in-person services for psychological testing and assessment.

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Research strongly suggests that Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive- Behavior Therapy can effectively treat and provide long lasting benefit for depression, anxiety, and other issues.

Experience & Background

Dr. Kot obtained his doctorate in Combined Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University in New York (accredited by the American Psychological Association).

He also obtained his Master's degree in Combined Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University. Dr. Kot's doctoral and clinical training was based on a scientist-practitioner model which emphasizes not only the art of clinical practice, but also psychology as a science derived from clinical research. He has presented papers at national and international conferences and has been published in peer reviewed journals.

Concerning his undergraduate education, Dr. Kot received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Seton Hall University in New Jersey where he majored in Psychology and minored in Latin.

For his predoctoral training, Dr. Kot completed his internship in two areas: clinical psychology and school psychology. For his school psychology internship placement, he worked in the Sewanhaka Central High School District in New York under direct supervision of a licensed psychologist. There, he conducted therapy as well as testing and assessment with adolescents and young adults who had a broad range of emotional and learning issues.

For his clinical internship, Dr. Kot completed his predoctoral training at the BioBehavioral Institute in New York, a world-renowned clinic that specializes in the treatment and research of anxiety spectrum disorders. There, he worked with an interdisciplinary team for the integration of behavioral and psychiatric care.

He conducted intensive cognitive-behavioral therapy, including exposure and response prevention (E/RP) and cognitive restructuring on various populations with diagnoses including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety, Panic Disorder, and many others.

During this time, he also worked at the Psychological Evaluation and Research Center (PERC) at Hofstra University where he conducted behavioral therapy and performed comprehensive psychological and psycho-educational assessments for learning disabilities and other disorders.

During his graduate education, Dr. Kot also accumulated extensive experience working with the developmentally disabled adults and children diagnosed with behavioral disorders in formulating behavior modification plans which utilize applied behavior analysis (ABA) to change and shape behavior.

In addition to his private practice, Dr. Kot is a supervising clinical psychologist at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital where he supervises other psychologists as well as doctoral interns who are part of the New Jersey State Psychology Internship Program.

Memberships

  • New Jersey Psychological Association

Licensure & Certificates

  • Private Practice of Psychology in the State of New Jersey (#4160)
  • Private Practice of Psychology in the State of New York (#15755)
  • PsyPact Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT#10669)

Publications

Peer Reviewed
  • Serper, M., Dill, C., Chang, N., Kot, T. & Elliot, J. (2005). Factorial Structure and Classification of Hallucinations: Continuity of Experience in Psychotic and Normal Individuals. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 193 (4), 265-272.
  • Kot, T. & Serper, M.R. (2002). Increased susceptibility to auditory sensory conditioning in hallucinating schizophrenics: A preliminary investigation. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 190, 282-288.
  • Kot, T. (2001). Auditory Sensory Conditioning in Schizophrenia: Clinical and Psychophysiological Correlates. Doctoral Dissertation.
Non-peer Reviewed
  • Kot, T. (2007). One Practitioners Reflections of the 40th Annual Convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies: Are you a Cognitive-Behavior Therapist? The Behavior Therapist, 30(2), 33-35.
  • Kot, T. (2005). Clinical Behavior Analysis and Depression. NJ-ACT Newsletter, Fall , 2.
  • Kot, T. (2005). Surprised by the APA Draft Policy on EBP? You Shouldnt Be. The Behavior Therapist, 28(3), 78-79.
  • Kot, T. & Serper. M.R. (2004). Psychological mechanisms mediate psychotic behavior. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 192 (6), 428-429.
National Presentations
  • Chang, N., Elliot, J., Kot, T., Bascher, R., Bowie, C., Harvey, P., & Serper, M. (2002). Factorial structure of hallucination predisposition. Presented at the annual convention of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, San Francisco, 2002.
  • Kot, T., Ugowitz, J., Bowie, C.R., and Serper, M.R. (2001). The prevalence of clinical and subclinical auditory hallucinations in the normal population. Presented at the annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., 2001.
  • Kot, T., Sheffield, K.A., and Serper, M.R. (2000). Auditory sensory conditioning in schizophrenia: Differential learning of a hallucinatory response. Presented at the annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, 2000.
  • Kot, T., Ugowitz, J., and Bowie, C. (2000). Towards the predictive validity of the Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale: A factor analysis on an American sample. Presented at the annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, 2000.
  • Kot, T. (2001). Auditory Sensory Conditioning in Schizophrenia: Clinical and Psychophysiological Correlates. Doctoral Dissertation.
  • Kot, T. (2001). Auditory Sensory Conditioning in Schizophrenia: Clinical and Psychophysiological Correlates. Doctoral Dissertation.

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