Dr. Ida Jeltova is a licensed psychologist,
who specializes in working with children and their families.
She has extensive expertise in working with youths that
experienced trauma and changes in placements (e.g.,
multiple foster families). In her clinical work Dr. Jeltova
focuses on each person's and/or family's unique profile
of strengths and weaknesses, problem resolution facilitating
and hindering factors, and available resources. The ultimate
goal is to increase the match between the family members
and to optimize the level of family functioning.
Dr. Jeltova has over 12 years of clinical
experience across different settings (e.g., specialized
schools, hospitals, community based clinics, and private
practice) and different populations (e.g., severe behavior
problems, developmental disabilities, mood disorders, and
leaning difficulties). She coaches parents how to apply
and modify various parental techniques for coping with complex
behavioral issues of their children and provides psychological
therapy, parenting skills training, and psycho-educational
assessment of children 2 years old and up.
Dr. Jeltova keeps on expanding and polishing
her clinical expertise and competence by being active in
her field. She maintains an active applied school-based
research for children at risk for failure and teaches and
trains future doctoral school psychologists.
Dr. Jeltova was named the Young
Scholar in School Psychology in 2005. She is currently co-authoring
a book on Bipolar Disorder in Children and Teenagers aimed
to provide the youths as well as their parents and teachers
with helpful coping and behavior management strategies.
Dr. Jeltova earned her undergraduate
degree in Psychology from St. Petersburg State University
(1994), Masters in Psychology with specialization in Behavioral
Applications from Queens College, CUNY (1997), and Ph.D.
in School Psychology from the Graduate Center, CUNY, (2002).
