About Me
Treatment of Children, Adolescents, and AdultsOut of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
– Sigmund Freud.
Psychologist in Manhattan
One of my main goals as your therapist is to help enhance your effectiveness in life by identifying your strengths. These may be characteristics such as patience, determination, dedication, and creativity. Our work together can eventually help you understand the influence of your past on your current life so that you can shift toward healing. Through this process, you can also move toward minimizing and avoiding the repetition of painful and unproductive behaviors. Before change can occur, we must first identify when we may be setting up situations that allow us to repeat traumatic events. These habitual patterns keep us prisoners of our emotional pain.
With many years of experience as a Psychologist in Manhattan and psychoanalyst, I can help you analyze and understand what unconscious issues may currently affect your behaviors and thinking. Only after gaining this awareness can true change take place. The ultimate goal is to increase your ability to feel pleasure and success. We can work together to help confront triggering events that are connected to past and present experiences. This will also help you reduce current symptoms related to everyday stress, anxiety, and depression. I may offer support through significant losses, such as the death of a family member, friend, or partner. Allowing for the process of mourning is a critical step toward moving forward—even when it feels like an impossibility.
Listen to my latest Podcast
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Why do most of us have an inner critic, a negative inner voice that keeps us from being creative and trying new things? |
Certificates
– 2022 Certificate of completion in Maternal Mental Health
– Certification in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from NYU Postdoctoral Program
Dr. Robyn Cooper PSYD
Psychologist in Manhattan
My background and training as an Art Therapist was a major determinant in my decision to become a Psychologist and Psychoanalyst.
I was enthralled by the power, curative possibilities, and revealing nature in the creative process. As a result, my area of particular interest is in working with artists, writers, photographers and individuals in the theater and music industry. I am an interactive therapist with extensive postgraduate training. I am told that my use of humor and occasionally sarcasm in sessions helps to lighten the mood.
Education
– Master of Arts Degree in Art Therapy from New York University
– Master’s Degree in Clinical Child Psychology from Yeshiva University
– Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Yeshiva University
– Certificate in Psychotherapy from New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NYSPP)
– Certified Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist from NYU Postdoctoral Program
Certificates
– 2022 Certificate of completion in Maternal Mental Health
– Certification in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from NYU Postdoctoral Program
Dr. ROBYN COOPER, MA, MS, PsyD
NY Psychologist Lic. #008370-01 – NPI: 1497805840