Susan Frankel, LCSW

Title

Psychotherapist/Group Consultant

Clinical Appointments/Hospital Affiliation

Voluntary Faculty, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Faculty, Center for Group Studies

Description of Practice/Services Offered

Description of Practice/Services Offered
Individual and group psychotherapy with adults, adolescents and children
Relationship issues - anger, intimacy, sexuality, raising children, time management.
Expertise with gay, lesbian and bisexual patients.
Treatment of personality disorders.
Long & short-term treatment.
Parent-child sessions.
Parents of emotionally disturbed/mentally ill children.
Treatment of depressed women prior to pregnancy, pregnancy and post-partum.
Individual & Group Supervision.
Group Psychotherapy:  New Group for Men and Woman, ages 25-35, in formation, as of December 7, 2011.

Professional Education

Hunter School of Social Work, M.S.W.
Training in Psychoanalytic Play Therapy
Hunter Post Graduate Program in Advanced Individual Treatment Certificate.
Center for Group Studies, Certificate in Group Psychoanalysis
William Alanson White, Program in Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions, Certificate.

Credentials/Board Certification

Licensed Clinical Social Worker , NYS (LCSW)
Board Certified Diplomate, American Board of Examiners(BCD)
Certified Group Psychotherapist, American Group Psychotherapy Association (CGP)

Honors/Awards

American Group Psychotherapy Association, 2008, for Co-Leadership Project in NYC Schools.

Presentations/Media

Annual AGPA Conference:  Concepts in work with School -Age Children, 2005.
Presentations to Department of Education Personnel, 2002-2008 on topics such as “Developing Resiliency in School Age Children”, “Bullying in the Classroom and the School”, “Concepts for Teachers to Reach Difficult Children.”
Numerous presentations on Children and  on Group Psychotherapy in undergraduate/graduate schools in NYC.

_ Contact_____________________________________________________________________

Phone: (212) 866-5756

Fax: (212) 866-3839

Email: susanif@verizon.net

Website: www.psychotherapistsnyc.com

Appointment Scheduling: (212) 866-5756

Office Hours: Day and Evening, by Appointment

Insurances Accepted/Managed Care Accepted: Oxford/United Behavioral , 1199SEIU, APS
Other insurances accepted out-of-network for which I will provide a statement.