About Lindsey Wolfram, Ph.D.
Psychology Fellow

“Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear…” – Adam Phillips

In all of my clinical work, my overarching goal is to cultivate each patient’s ability to use their own mind—to learn, to decide, to think with greater clarity and to feel with greater honesty and authenticity.

I believe it’s my job to understand what keeps you stuck in your way of being, unable to change despite wanting to. I also believe that carving out new paths for yourself requires immense bravery and the will to do things differently, which is at once startingly simple but often profoundly difficult. I have a warm and accepting but honest and direct therapeutic style. Patients often describe me as welcoming, curious and attuned and often express appreciation for my deep and abiding interest in who they are and how their mind works.

I have extensive experience with adults and young adults struggling with anxiety and OCD, depression, and feelings of emptiness and dissociation. I also have a considerable experience with relationship difficulties—family relationships, friendships, romantic relationships, and everything in between—which are a good fit for my relational, attachment-informed approach. I find that what leads one to seek therapy is not always active distress, but often feels more like passive discontent: the feeling that something is off or missing. Alongside the desire to feel better is the fundamentally human desire to realize one’s self to one’s fullest potential, and to face ourselves, begrudgingly but honestly, even when we fear that we have not yet achieved this potential.

Availability: I provide in-person therapy in New York City, and telehealth sessions across New York state.

Specialties

My Approach

I work from a relational and psychoanalytic perspective, which means I view our experience of relationships—both current and attachments to early caregivers—as central to the formation of our psyches and essential to our growth and healing. I pay careful attention to the ways in which patients protect themselves from difficult feelings, and help patients tolerate such emotions by sitting with these experiences together. The goal is not to cause discomfort, but to promote emotional awareness, coping and agency in your life and relationships.

At times I also incorporate more concrete skills-based approaches from Cognitive-Behavioral (CBT) and Dialectical-Behavioral (DBT) frameworks, integrating them as indicated based on each patient’s unique needs and presentation.

I have a warm, deeply empathic but direct interpersonal style, and do not shy away from confrontation and challenge when needed or potentially helpful. I bring to my work a deep interest in people and their worlds both inner and outer, with all their faults and virtues, and look to foster an honest conversation about who you are, how you think and feel, and how you relate to others.

My Background

Before discovering my interest in psychology, I trained as a dancer and performer. My experience as a performer influenced me deeply, and shaped my perspective on the nature of human connection and relatedness.

As a psychologist, I’m fortunate to have learned and grown through a remarkably diverse range of clinical experiences. I received my Ph.D. from Adelphi University, where I served as a therapist for several years during my clinical training, conducting long-term individual and group therapy. Prior to my doctoral training I worked with mentally ill New Yorkers in social services as a case manager, where I gained familiarity working intimately with people vastly different than myself. I also trained clinically across multiple settings— first in private practice, then in a VA hospital, a college counseling center, and eventually in a city hospital, before coming back to a private practice setting. I also have strong interests in group therapy and have lead interpersonal process groups across these settings.

 I feel very fortunate to have had this breadth of experience, and feel it continues to be a huge advantage in my work and my growth as a clinician. I consider it a significant strength to have worked with a racially, ethnically, religiously and clinically diverse patient population. These experiences continue to inform my curious, empathic, person-centered understanding of psychological distress, a perspective I carry with me into each new clinical experience.

Education, Training & Experience

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University

Postdoctoral Fellow in Advanced Psychotherapy, The Flatiron Center for Psychotherapy

Certificate in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

  • NYC Health + Hospitals – North Central Bronx Hospital

  • Baruch College Counseling Center

  • Brooklyn VA Medical Center

  • SelfWorks Therapy Group

  • Derner Child and Family Center

  • Adelphi Center for Psychological Services

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