Alexandra Krisztofer MA, M.S, DTR is recognized by Continental Who’s Who among Healthcare Professionals.
Ms. Krisztofer is a Cognitive Trainer, Dance/Movement Therapist and a Recreation Consultant at the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation at Port Washington, Long Island, New York. She works with clients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or other early stage of neurodegenerative diseases in a day program setting. Her professional job includes cognitive assessment, computerized cognitive training
(CogniFit program) and a special group cognitive training program, called “Train your Brain”, using the famous Swiss psychologist, Andre Rey’s neuropsychological assessment and training materials among others. These programs are developed to improve a variety of mental functions and/or to slow down the cognitive decline caused by the diseases. Her other unique group program, called “Creative Expression”, which integrates a few Western and Eastern creative therapies and healing arts, such as dance therapy, art therapy, music therapy, relaxation, meditation, guided imagery and tai chi-qi gong. This program is designed to improve the body-mind connection, self expression, self image, creative and social skills. She also coordinates/ facilitates special events and group recreation programs for clients who suffer from early or moderate stage of Alzheimer’s Disease. She has 20 years professional experience in healthcare field at psychiatry and neurology units of major hospitals, as well as at rehabilitation and long term care facilities in New York City, Long Island and Budapest. Prior to her present job, for 5 years she specialized in stroke rehabilitation as psychologist and movement therapist.
Ms. Krisztofer holds an MA Degree in psychology from the University of Budapest, and an MS in Dance/Movement Therapy from CUNY, Hunter College,NY. Her other professional educations include a 2 year certificate program in Dance Education in New York City, a 2 year certificate program in Whole Health Education in Boston, and a 2 year postgraduate program in Neuropsychology in Budapest. She had a poster presentation at a Neurorehabilitation Conference in Hungary in 2006, titled as “The effect of the Dance/Movement therapy in the Stroke Rehabilitation”, and published with other professionals in the Neuro-psychopharmacology Hungarica in 2004.
Alexandra, in her twenties experimented with a variety of creative arts, and had been a cartoonist, a model, a mime, a musical dancer-singer and a journalist. She still sings in a church choir and takes salsa classes. Her future goals are to participate in research studies in neuroscience, pursue her PhD, to write book(s) and to learn Spanish.
