Dr. Callaghan is a Founder of the Integrative Therapy Institute and is its Director of Child Services. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2005, and has been a Licensed Psychologist in New Jersey since 2009. Dr. Callaghan received his B.A. in Psychology at The College of William and Mary in Virginia and also attended the University of St. Andrews in Scotland as a Study Abroad student.
Dr. Callaghan served as the Associate Clinical Director at Cornerstone Day School’s Therapeutic Middle School, and, before that, ran the adolescent therapeutic afterschool programs at Jersey City Medical Center. He also worked as a child psychologist at the Irvington Development Center, where he founded the Play, Grow, and Heal community preschool therapy program for Irvington preschoolers and their parents. Dr. Callaghan also worked as a staff trainer and school-based psychologist at the Youth Development Clinic in Newark. Prior to this, Dr. Callaghan worked as an intake specialist at St. Joseph’s Hospital’s Harbor House program in Paterson, NJ.
Dr. Callaghan began private practice with the MJC Institute in Ogdensburg, NJ in 2006, and founded the Integrative Therapy Institute with Dr. Hollenbach in 2010. He treats children, adolescents, adults, and couples, and is one of the few psychologists with extensive experience in treating preschool children.
As a function of his nearly three decades of experience in working with children and their parents, Dr. Callaghan has become an expert in comprehensively treating childhood disorders, while also treating problematic relations between children and their parents. Dr. Callaghan’s Synchronizing Child-Parent Relations (SCPR) Treatment Model is the child-parent treatment approach that he developed from his years of work in this field. Dr. Callaghan currently serves as a trainer to newer clinicians at the Integrative Therapy Institute and teaches them to effectively treat childhood disorders while also supporting positive parenting skills development using his SCPR Treatment Model.
Individuals looking to schedule an appointment with Dr. Callaghan should contact the ITI-NJ main # at 732-902-2181 to request an appointment with him.
PLEASE NOTE: Dr. Callaghan only meets with clients at the MONTCLAIR office and, unfortunately, DOES NOT see clients at the other ITI-NJ office locations. Dr Callaghan is also OUT OF NETWORK with ALL insurance companies. As such, clients would need to pay out of pocket and/or use out of network coverage in order to meet with him. If you are unsure if you have out of network coverage with your insurance plan or need to find out the scope of your out of network coverage in your plan, your ITI-NJ intake worker would be happy to contact your insurance company for you and assist you in finding this out.
NJ State Board of Psychological Examiners
Practicing Psychologist
License #35SI00474100
