A note to physicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, and other clinicians: If you have a patient who needs more than most therapists can offer, I may be the right person.
Who I see
I work with adults and adolescents across the full range of emotional and stress difficulties of any kind — including complex situations involving the mind, brain, and health that most therapists are not trained to address:
- Adjustment to neurological diagnosis or brain illness
- Emotional and behavioral changes following brain injury or medical illness
- Memory and cognitive concerns with significant emotional overlay
- Situations that sit at the boundary of medical, neurological, and emotional experience, and require someone who is fluent in all of them
- Patients who have not responded to more standardized approaches and need careful, individualized attention
What I bring that is unusual
What makes my range unusual is not only the breadth of my training, but that the integration of disciplines is the actual substance of how I work. In my writing and scholarship, I work at the intersection of psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and philosophy, not as a survey of separate fields but as an attempt to think across them. In presentations and teaching, I do the same. And in direct consultation with clients, I bring all of this to bear: the clinical, the neurological, the developmental, the relational — whatever the situation calls for.
My background is unusual. The Doctor of Mental Health program at UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute was the first program in the country to fully integrate the training of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and clinical practice into a single discipline. Alongside this, I studied neuroscience at Stanford. My specialty internship year was in mother-infant attachment and early child development, working with Mary Main, Alicia Lieberman, and Selma Fraiberg — three of the most distinguished figures the field has produced. My psychoanalytic training included training with Erik Erikson.
I have treated clients for over 40 years. I have directed a funded neuroscience research program within a department of psychiatry, served as a neutral clinical consultant to Federal judges on the most complex medico-neuro-psychiatric cases in the Northern District of Ohio, and holds faculty positions at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University. I serve on the editorial board of a peer-reviewed journal and continue active scholarly work. I am not winding down — I am doing the most integrative work of my career.
For a fuller account of training, research, and intellectual background — including collaborations with Karl Pribram, Walter Freeman, Jaak Panksepp, Erik Erikson, and others — see the Biography page.
Practical notes
- I work independently, without insurance billing, on a sliding-scale fee
- I see patients in person in Cleveland and remotely from anywhere
- I see a small number of patients and give each one genuine attention
- Patient confidentiality is primary; with a patient’s permission, I may consult with professionals and others as permitted and needed
- I offer a free 15-minute initial consultation for prospective patients
To discuss a patient or simply reconnect:
(216) 409-6914 | dpincus216@gmail.com