Roger Rosenthal MA MSW

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     Before becoming a psychotherapist, I was a Ph.D. student in anthropology. Anthropology was a fascinating discipline, but I felt the need for something more immediately helpful. The training I received in anthropology, to put aside pre-conceptions and observe not only from my perspective, but from inside the ‘other's’ perspective, has been essential in my work as a psychotherapist.

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After receiving a Masters of Social Work at New York University I completed post-graduate training in adult psychotherapy at the National institute of the Psychotherapies Four-Year Program in Comprehensive Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. This was a wonderfully immersive experience that provided me with a solid foundation as psychotherapist. . After graduating I spent an even longer period of time trying to put aside what I learnt. As much as I wanted to have a clear knowledge and command of psychotherapy, I felt it important to be able to see past the way received ideas shapes what we see, to find what is therapeutic, what fosters growth and what doesn’t.

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Concurrent with post-graduate training, I worked for many years as a psychotherapist consultant in District 15 schools, working with educators and students, providing a window into the school life of children and adolescents.

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For the last fifteen years I’ve had the opportunity to teach both child/adolescent and adult psychotherapy in a number of settings. Having to explain theory and practice has clarified and deepened my own clinical work. I have taught child and adolescent psychotherapy at Brooklyn College, Graduate School in Psychology. I am faculty and clinical training supervisor for adult psychotherapy at the post-graduate training centers, The National Institute of the Psychotherapies and the Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. I am also a founding co-director and former faculty of NIP’s training program, Relational Approaches to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. I am fully licensed as a therapist in New York State.