Our Trainers

Rachel Proujansky, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist who earned her doctorate from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She completed her internship at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West Hospitals. Dr. Proujansky completed her post-doctoral fellowship in DBT with adolescents, adults, and family members at the Center for Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, where she worked with adolescents and adults struggling with anxiety, depression, emotion dysregulation, and addictive and compulsive behaviors. She also served as a therapist on an NIH-funded study examining the use of LGB-affirmative CBT for substance use and compulsive sexual behavior in sexual minority men. She is instrumental in managing and supporting the clinicians on CMC’s trauma team at CMC. Dr. Proujansky is an Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the New York City Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association.

Dr. Sarah Zucker is a licensed psychologist located in San Diego, CA. Her passion is helping clients resolve substance use concerns and supporting people in the change process, however that may look for each individual.

Dr. Zucker attended the University of California, Los Angeles for her undergraduate studies. After graduating, she obtained her doctorate in psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Diego. Dr. Zucker has primarily worked in private practice, university counseling settings, and as a staff psychologist and director in treatment centers that provide detox and residential treatment. At San Diego State University, she utilized a grant to co-design and implement the university’s first collegiate recovery program and gave presentations on reducing stigma and being an ally to people in various stages of recovery.

Dr. Zucker has presented and written extensively about Motivational Interviewing, client-centered discharge planning, Invitation to Change, reducing stigma, and making treatment and recovery more welcoming and affirming for marginalized groups. She works primarily with addiction and substance use concerns, trauma, anxiety and OCD, with members of the LGBTQ+ community, students, teens, and adults.