Dan Wolfson, PsyD

Dr. Dan Wolfson is a licensed clinical psychologist who works individually with teens and adults, guides couples and families towards strengthening their relationships, and builds communities of support for children and adults who have experienced loss.

Dan Wolfson grief therapist

I work in a collaborative way to help individuals get the most out of their experience, and focus not only on challenges or stressors, but also on one’s unique strengths. With a combination of evidence-based techniques and a relationship-driven foundation, we will work together to identify and strive towards your goals.

"I believe that the power of therapy starts with the client-therapist relationship. When we work together, you are getting the genuine me, just as I hope to get to know the genuine version of you. While we will strive to make the space for challenging emotions together, I also hope to create space for moments of lightness, as I believe we need to both lean in to and lean back from challenges in order to adapt and grow."

Areas of specialization:

  • Grief, loss, and trauma

  • Adolescent behavioral, social, and executive-functioning challenges

  • Depression and anxiety

  • Parent-child conflict

  • Adjustment to life transitions including professional pursuits and interpersonal relationships

In addition to his therapy practice in New York City, Dr. Wolfson is a consulting psychologist with Manhattan’s prestigious Collegiate School, and the co-creator and clinical director of Experience Camps’ Adult Grief Retreat, where he also spent the past ten years as a director of one of their regional programs for children who have experienced a significant death-loss. Prior to launching Wolfson Therapy, he was a supervising Staff Psychologist at Rennicke & Associates in downtown Manhattan, and an adjunct faculty member at the NYU Center for Counseling.

Dr. Wolfson completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University's Center for Prolonged Grief, where he developed expertise in the highly effective modality of Prolonged Grief Treatment (PGT), while conducting research and providing bereavement training to mental health professionals. He has also pursued advanced training in the relational, attachment-oriented models of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).

Over the past decade, he has provided therapeutic services in schools, colleges, and community mental health centers, and led professional workshops around topics including grief, workplace dynamics, and childhood social/emotional functioning.

Dr. Wolfson a featured author and advisor to the website Modern Loss, served as an advisory board member for the grief resource company Lantern, and his work has been featured in local and national media outlets including ABC, Today, The Huffington Post, Fatherly, Vice, and more.

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