Robert Caplan, LCSW

Hi! I'm Robert, and I’m a social worker and therapist. I earned my masters in social work at Columbia University, where I completed internships in the fields of substance use and serious mental illness. Since then, I have been working in the city shelter system and as a psychotherapist at a community mental health clinic. I am currently undergoing post-graduate psychoanalytic training at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. My approach to therapy is to develop a safe, nonjudgemental and trusting atmosphere where you can freely express your thoughts and feelings. Together, we will collaboratively explore how your lived experience informs and maintains expectations and attitudes - about yourself, others, and the world - and how these may be supporting or thwarting your current efforts to meet your needs in relationships, reach your professional goals, and realize your innermost desires. Through the ongoing development of our therapeutic relationship, we will arrive at an in-depth understanding of your emotional world that enhances your sense of personal agency, vitality, and freedom so that you can live a more easeful, creative, and satisfying life.