Psychological Services Center

The Psychological Services Center (PSC) is a private, nonprofit mental health facility operated by the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at LIU Post. The clinic operates with the objectives of providing diverse psychological services to all members of the local community as well as serving as a training facility for LIU Post Clinical Psychology Doctoral candidates.

The PSC is staffed by second-year graduate students earning their doctoral degrees in clinical psychology. The graduate student-therapist’s work is closely supervised by licensed clinical psychologists who are faculty members of the Department of Psychology, as well as licensed clinical psychologists from the Long Island community who serve as Adjunct Clinical Supervisors.

The Psychological Services Center is located in Lodge A on LIU Post campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, New York, 11548-1300. Call 516-299-3211 for more information.

Frances Dalis, PsyD, LMSW, RPT-S

Licensed Clinical Psychologist.

Director, Psychological Services Center

B.A. St. John’s University

LMSW Adelphi University

PsyD, M.S. Long Island University-Post

I serve as an Associate Professor and the Director of Long Island University's (LIU) Psychological Services Center (PSC), which allows me to work with second, and third-year clinical psychology, doctoral candidates. I am an ally, and as part of my responsibilities for the PSC, I provide supervision to Graduate Student Therapists (GST) that specialize in treating members of the LGBTQ+ community. I am a Clinical Psychologist and a graduate of the Postdoctoral Fellowship of The Gordan F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University's Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychoanalytic program. I teach developmental psychology, child, and adolescent psychotherapy, adult psychopathology, clinical interventions, and cognitive psychology courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.

I provide a neutral space for young people to express their needs and help families develop adaptive communication skills. As a diagnostician, I provide psychological testing for gifted students and those with special needs (including ADI-R and ADOS-2) who require school accommodations.

My treatment philosophy is to work collaboratively with families to provide children and adolescents with an open, empathetic, safe space to express their daily challenges. I strive to assist young people in looking for evidence of their resilience. As a Registered Play Therapy – Supervisor (RPT-S), I am dedicated to learning and teaching cutting-edge, child-focused interventions.

Specialties

With 16 years of experience as a mental health professional, I specialize in working with children, adolescents, and families. My approach employs integrative, evidence-based interventions, including CBT, ACT, and Psychodynamic therapy. Therapeutic populations include autism spectrum disorder, LGBTQ+ identity formation, chronic pain management, depression, anxiety, and behavioral issues.

Dissertation:

Dalis, F., Knafo, D., Keisner, Robert., Novich, J. (2018) Coming Out as a Gay Man: The Journey of Self-Discovery and Disclosure

Blum, B., Goodman, G., Dalis, F., Rentrop, C. (2022) Gender, Attachment Patterns, and Mental Representations of Parents and Self as Predictors

Poster Presentations

"Coming Out as a Gay Man: The Journey of Self-Discovery and Disclosure.," Presentation at Society of Psychotherapy Integration, online conference, 2020.

"Modifying Trauma Art Narrative Therapy to Help Children from War-Torn Ukraine Identify Coping Skills," Presentation at the American Psychological Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2015.

"Personality prototypes: Validity and reliability with an outpatient sample," Presentation at the Annual Society of Personality Assessment Meeting, 2015.