Clinical expertise for organizations serving high-achieving, high-stakes populations.
Dr. Lisa A. Napolitano, J.D., Ph.D., ABPP
For over twenty years, my clinical practice has specialized in one population: high-achieving professionals — executives, attorneys, physicians, and founders. I’ve built a concierge practice around what this clientele actually requires: clinical rigor, discretion, and a service standard that matches the rest of their lives.
I consult with organizations that serve this population — or employ it.
For Treatment Programs
Premier treatment centers face a specific problem: clients who are wealthy, accomplished, and skilled at outmaneuvering standard clinical programming. They intellectualize, negotiate, and manage impressions — and when treatment isn’t built for them, they discharge early and tell their networks.
I work with clinical leadership on:
- Program adaptation — modifying DBT and CBT protocols for high-functioning, professionally successful clients without sacrificing fidelity
- Clinical team training — the dynamics of treating executives, attorneys, and physicians: entitlement, status negotiation, intellectualization as resistance, and the confidentiality concerns unique to prominent clients
- Client-experience review — evaluating the full arc from first inquiry to discharge against the service standard your clientele expects, informed by two decades of running a practice built on that standard
- Ongoing case consultation — retained clinical consultation on complex, high-profile cases
For Law Firms & Professional Organizations
As a psychologist who also holds a law degree, I work at the intersection the legal profession rarely finds: clinical expertise delivered by someone fluent in how firms and their people actually operate.
· Training and programming — evidence-based skills for emotional regulation, stress physiology, and sustainable performance under pressure; built for skeptical, intelligent audiences, not wellness-culture content
· Advisory on complex personnel dynamics — discreet consultation for leadership managing talented but destabilizing individuals, where clinical insight and legal awareness both matter
Background
- Board-certified in Cognitive Behavioral Psychology (ABPP)
- J.D., Ph.D. — clinical psychology and law
- Founder, concierge CBT/DBT practice serving clients in Miami, New York, and nationally
- Founder and President, Florida Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association
- Author, Emotion Regulation in Psychotherapy
Engagements
Consulting is a deliberately small part of my professional practice, taken on selectively. Engagements typically begin with a scoped assessment or training and, where there’s fit, continue as retained advisory.
To discuss an engagement: [email protected]
All consulting is provided in a non-forensic, organizational capacity.