Charles Schaeffer Ph.D.

Chuck Schaeffer, Ph.D., is a psychologist, career advisor, and award winning speaker who specializes in working with adults, couples, parents, and professionals to overcome the challenges of real life and achieve their educational, relationship, career, and life goals.
Over the years, Dr. Schaeffer has guided and motivated his clients and patients to greater awareness, empowerment, and meaning in their lives, families, and careers. Drawing on his roles as a psychologist and clincial supervisor at universities, business schools, international perinatal and parental health institutes, and internationally recognized medical schools in the New York City, Dr. Schaeffer helps clients and organizations with a variety of goals. Whether you or your organization need to improve sleep and emotion regulation, increase prioritization and time management skills, be more confident in your development into the role of a new father or mother, overcome perinatal and postpartum mental health, enhance relationship satisfaction and communication, and/or need guidance in a new career or career transition, Dr. Schaeffer can help you to thrive and succeed. Dr. Schaeffer has worked with hundreds of clients in New York and around the world, gaining a reputation for drawing out the best potential in people and organizations through his warm, pragmatic, insightful, solution-focused style.

In addition to his practice located in the East and West Village of NYC, Dr. Schaeffer is a published author and holds a clinical faculty appointment at NYU where he has been recognized with multiple University Excellence Awards for his commitment to students and under-served communities. He is an expert contributor whose work and writing has been featured in Vice, Huffington Post, Mom.me, Psychology Today, Postpartum Support International, Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, American Psychological Association, and the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Schaeffer has created and delivered advanced mental health training programs and invited talks/seminars to organizations including the Seleni Institute, Estee Lauder, JP Morgan Chase, Philadelphia Department of Health, Postpartum Support International, New York University, and Mount Sinai Medical School. He currently serves as clinical consultant to organizations including Huddle, New York University, and the Motherhood Center of NY. You can find out more at his website drchuckschaeffer.com or contact him directly. You can also see where his next presentation or talk will be by following him on Twitter @TheDrSchaeffer or on Instagram @dr_chuck_schaeffer_psychology.