Dr. Patricia Hunter
Psychologist
Dr Hunter is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is familiar with CBT techniques and can offer her patients a variety of treatment options depending on their preference. Studying the less conscious underpinnings of many problems interests her. She currently teaches and supervises candidates at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis and previously taught at the Suffolk Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She enjoys helping individuals and couples explore their feelings, interpret their dreams, and understand their memories and complex personality parts. She thinks multiplicity can be enriching once it is understood.
Dr Hunter believes that patients should have a voice in their therapy and if you become her patient, she will occasionally ask you for feedback. She can't develop trust if the two of you can't discuss how she is coming across and how you are or are not feeling better as a result of the work.
Dr Hunter has a full time practice in New York City, in person and by telehealth depending on your preference.
She feels passionate about helping individuals feel better about themselves, by helping them understand what causes anxiety, depression, and hopelessness with regard to unresolved trauma, chronic feelings of emptiness, and fears of aging. And once understood, she can design an approach unique to your situation in particular.
She feels passionate about helping couples caught in vicious cycles of criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling. The renowned researchers John and Julie Gottman call these bad habits the FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. Dr Hunter likes helping couples turn themselves around, so their relationships can have more fun, surprise and meaning at their core.
Finally, as she has grown older, she has also grown passionate about helping people transform depressed and inflexible thinking patterns about the aging process, into more youthful and life sustaining ones. She thinks our older years should be our best ones.
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