ROBERT LEVIN, LCSW

I have been in practice since 2007 and have worked primarily with adults individually and with couples. 

I also teach psychoanalysis at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis as well as other institutes.

After receiving my clinical social work license, I studied psychoanalysis at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. Its humanistic approach to psychoanalysis and its focus on the healing of psychological problems through safe, honest conversation without jargon or diagnostic categories appealed to me. 
My interest as a therapist has primarily been in helping people become more fully themselves. Self-awareness, acceptance, and self-expansion is the tightrope we must all balance on as we become more understanding, forgiving, loving, and secure. 

A more humanistic approach to people's psychology has always prioritized and given utmost respect to a person's individual and unique ways of living life. Its main aim is to help people become more alive, creative, authentic versions of themselves.
I  refrain from diagnostic thinking and seek to find the meanings and utility in a person’s unique way of living. Even when this way of living leads to difficulties, my belief is that it underscores a belief system that has importance for each person. Finding that importance, knowing its many forms, helps with creating new alternatives . My understanding is that we all have ways of living that are the outcome of our experiences, our learning, sometimes imitating and identifying with our parents and our culture's values. One can say that our identities are an act of love to those dear to us. It is often these loyalties to our families and peers which keep us fixed in patterns of being that can cause us difficulties in the present and prevent growth.