Johanna Dobrich, M.A., LCSW-R
Johanna Dobrich, M.A., LCSW-R is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.
Johanna Dobrich, LCSW-R
I have always been observant and sensitive to the varied ways in which life experience informs human identity. The capacity to establish enriching relational connections and to lead an authentic life is not necessarily something that just happens. At some time or another most of us usually need some help along the way to evolve into the version of ourselves we most long to be/come.
I became a psychoanalytic psychotherapist as a second career, after working in politics and studying congressional representation. I earned my Master’s degree in Political Science from Rutgers University, and my MSW in clinical social work from New York University.
I completed a four-year psychoanalytic training certificate program at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. In addition to working psychoanalytically, I also provide EMDR (Eye Movement Sensitization and Reprocessing) therapy an approach that unfreezes trauma from within the nervous system reorganizing these perceptual, affective, and cognitive experiences into more adaptive places.
I have served as a faculty member and clinical supervisor at both the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC) and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). Currently, I am on the faculty and serve as a supervisor at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) and the Certificate Program in Trauma Studies at MIP. I also sit on the advisory panel for The Board at ICP.
My professional interests are wide-ranging and include the study and treatment of trauma and dissociative disorders, complicated grief and mourning, chronic illness within families, attachment disorders, sociocultural identity development, as well as anxiety and depressive disorders. It is a privilege to provide emotional care to individuals seeking transformation. As a life-long learner, I am committed to continuously integrating new knowledge and techniques into my practice.
