Debbie Magids, Ph.D. is a counseling psychologist with a thriving private practice in New York City. Always client focused, Debbie has a unique ability to connect with people by combining her tough and direct style with supportive compassion and authenticity. Dr. Debbie’s groundbreaking methodology and her results-oriented process challenge the outdated principle that therapy needs to take years before eliciting any type of tangible change. Consistently helping her clients achieve their goals and live the life they want, she invites you to transform your thinking and recognize that change CAN start today.

Dr. Debbie is the author of All The Good Ones Aren’t Taken: Change the Way You Date and Find Lasting Love. Regularly contributing her relationship advice to Cosmopolitan, she also has been quoted on MSN.com and in Glamour, Self and Time Out NY magazine. A popular and frequent television guest, Dr. Debbie has appeared on NBC’s Today, HLN’s The Joy Behar Show, FOX’s Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, CNN Headline News, The Jane Velez-Mitchell Show, Your World with Neil Cavuto, 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 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.