Debbie Magids, Ph.D. is a counseling psychologist who invites her patients–and you–to live shame-free. By recognizing and targeting old behaviors and thought patterns, Dr. Debbie helps her clients gain the courage to start moving toward happiness from a practical standpoint, leading them to a healthy, happier outlook and personal success.

Dr. Debbie is the author of All The Good Ones Aren’t Taken: Change the Way You Date and Find Lasting Love, and she has regularly contributed her relationship advice to Cosmopolitan, MSN.com and Match.com. A popular and frequent television guest, Dr. Debbie has appeared on NBC’s Today, FOX’s Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, CNN Headline News, Tyra, The Montel Williams Show and in primetime on Beauty and the Geek. Dr. Debbie’s expert commentary has been featured in a wide range of publications including Family Circle, Women’s World and the New York Daily News.

Previously, Dr. Debbie was tenured at Kingsborough Community College where, as the Director of Counseling, she created the personal counseling center and internship program and mentored students training to be psychotherapists. Additionally Debbie was a Professor at Hunter College’s graduate counseling program.

Dr. Debbie holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Psychology and a Master of Education in Psychological Counseling from Teachers’ College, Columbia University. She attained her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University. Debbie’s doctoral dissertation explored the effects the Holocaust had on the surviving children. Her article, “Personality Comparison Between Children of Hidden Holocaust Survivors and American Jewish Parents,” was published in the Journal of Psychology [1998, 132 (3), 245 -245].

Dr. Debbie Magids has been a member of American Psychological Association since 1989.