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DiDomenico grew up in the Greenville section of Jersey City. She attended St. John's University where she graduated '' Summa Cum Laude '' in 1984 with a B.S. in Psychology and the President’s Medal, and earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1995.

Dr. DiDomenico is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Rutgers University , where she serves as a Behavior Specialist. Through the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, she provides training and clinical supervision to doctoral students. She also serves as consulting psychologist to several agencies for persons with developmental disabilities. She lectures regularly at professional conferences locally and throughout the country on issues related to parent / professional collaboration for special needs children.

Freeholder DiDomenico is the Coordinator of the Child and Adolescent Program at the Rutgers Anxiety Disorders Clinic, providing evaluations and psychotherapy to individuals struggling with anxiety. At the clinic, she also treats Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam and Iraq veterans under a contract with the Veteran's Administration .

She has been a Trustee with the Bayonne Board of Education since 2000, is a member of the Board of the Bayonne Community Mental Health Center, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Windmill Alliance where she was recently appointed Chair of their 2006 Capital Campaign.

In her inaugural term on the Board of Chosen Freeholders, DiDomenico is serving as Chair of the Environmental, Health and Human Services, and Women and Minority Issues Committees. She is also representing the Freeholders on the Meadowview Psychiatric Hospital Board of Managers and on the Hudson County Planning Board.


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