Psychiatrists in New York, NY

A great psychiatrist needs to combine clinical and scientific expertise with empathy and curiosity about people and their troubles. Throughout my career, I have been fascinated with how each of us develop our unique personal style of coping with a life that will inevitably bring problems in love, work, and relationships. If you or your loved one suffers from problems with mood, anxiety, attention, or seems stuck in a pattern of maladaptive behavior, I will work with you to identify the cause and find a solution.

I am Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and a board-certified psychiatrist committed to offering comprehensive care for individuals, couples and families. I practice and value psychotherapy because it can be an enormously powerful tool to enhance personal growth, learning and self-discovery. Being a physician enables me to offer the option of medication when needed. This has the advantage of integrating both types of treatments with one provider only. If you are already in psychotherapy, I will work in coordination with your therapist to achieve the best result.

I work with my patients in a collaboratively fashion to clarify their goals, increase their productivity and enhance their sense of well being. Together we focus on identifying the underlying causes for poor motivation, "brain fog" and low energy. I specialize on attention deficit disorder, various forms of depression and excessive anxiety. In psychotherapy, I tend to work with creative individuals who feel that they have not met their potential. I see a lot of artists, writers, musicians and photographers. I am bilingual English / German.

For 45 years I have practiced relational, body-oriented psychotherapy. When you have no words for your feelings, for what happened to you… for what is missing in you, I listen to the inner resonance- of your inchoate secrets- as it lives in your body. I help you to sense and amplify this resonance until its movement comes close enough to the surface of your being to enter your consciousness. This nonverbal, implicit process brings a unique dimension to my work.

I will try to understand you and we will develop a treatment plan best suited to your needs. My goal is to bring hope to my clients, and help them understand and cope better with the people and life situations associated with the onset of their symptoms. I am a board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist who specializes in different forms of psychotherapy--cognitive behavioral (CBT), metacognitive (MCT), interpersonal (IPT), psychodynamic, and supportive therapy--in addition to pharmacology to augment psychotherapy only when the need arises. I enjoy a diverse, multicultural client base and speak several languages.