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Emily Klass

Emily Klass, Ph.D. is the co-creator of the Psychological Health Collaborative — a partnership of child psychologists, yoga teachers, nutritionists and school psychologists which is a training site for post-doctoral students and intimately involved with the school systems and pediatricians and sub-specialists in our community. For many years she served as a senior psychologist at Cohen’s Children’s Hospital — in the Northwell System in New York, specializing in the treatment of medically ill children and in the training of psychologists as well as at the NYU Child Study Center, supervising at the Summer Program for Kids as well as managing the Mental Health Team for the Alternative School at Port Washington High School. She has found that sleep and bedtimes are crucial for happy kids.

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