TFP-New York, LLC is a community of clinicians interested in the relation between personality, emotional adjustment, and mental health. For each of us, the individual’s personality – their sense of identity, characteristic tendencies in responding to the world, and the strategies employed in managing the emotional stresses associated with everyday life – is the central lens through which the problems patients bring to psychotherapy are conceptualized and addressed.
We come from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, social work, and psychiatry. We all share an interest in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of personality difficulties and disorders (which are often experienced as anxiety and depression) and maintain this common interest by training, teaching, and learning together. We maintain independent private practices, and collectively, have experience working with individual across the life-span in a variety of therapeutic modalities, including supportive psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, group therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, couple therapy, and integrative treatments. Members of our group have also pioneered the development of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, a twice-weekly, intensive treatment for borderline personality disorder.