Zach Sapolsky, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist · New York
Early-career clinicians are asked to sit with a great deal. Supervision is where they learn how.
Clinical Supervisor
PhD, Clinical Psychology, LIU Brooklyn
Karen Horney Clinic
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Psychology, Baruch College (CUNY)
About Zach
Zach is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York and one of the clinical supervisors at BIPS. He earned his PhD in clinical psychology at LIU Brooklyn and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Karen Horney Clinic. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice and teaches psychology at Baruch College.
His clinical work is psychodynamic in orientation, with a longstanding interest in attention, connection, and what sustained digital life is doing to both.
What he teaches
Zach has been supervising and teaching for more than ten years. At BIPS he runs three things:
- Weekly group supervision — case-focused, for clinicians in training
- Weekly didactics — foundational teaching for early-career staff
- Special Topics — held throughout the year, for more advanced clinicians
Supervision here is not a formality. Early-career clinicians get roughly eight hours a month, and Zach is one of the people that time is spent with. The emphasis is on what is actually happening between clinician and client — the material that does not fit neatly into a treatment plan, the reactions the clinician is having, the patterns that repeat.
Special Topics
Alongside the weekly teaching, Zach convenes Special Topics several times a year. Where the didactics cover foundations, Special Topics is pitched at more advanced clinicians: each session takes up a single clinical subject in depth.
Sessions are often open to therapists outside the practice by RSVP. There is no fee, and no CE credit — this is teaching for its own sake, not a certificate mill. You do not need to work at BIPS to come.
Interested in training with us?
BIPS invests in its clinicians so clients get better care. If you are an early-career therapist looking for real supervision, we would like to hear from you.