dr. dana dorfman
psychotherapist, author, speaker
Dr. Dorfman is a New York City-based psychotherapist with three decades of clinical experience researching and treating adolescents, adults, and families.
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Dr. Dorfman's Credo
Dr. Dorfman guides adolescents and adults to manage their anxieties, improve their relationships, express their authentic selves, and pursue values driven success. Human-to-human. One step at a time. She’s accessible virtually and in-person to patients.
services
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Individual Therapy
Informed by traditional and contemporary psychological approaches, you’ll work with Dana to understand and address your symptoms and move toward enhancing your emotional well being.
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Child + Adolescent Therapy
A safe and trusting therapeutic relationship can help adolescents and preadolescents process challenges during this tumultuous time of life.
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Parent Guidance
Whether you’re dealing with parenting struggles or complex emotional and developmental issues, you’ll explore new ways to address parenting issues and manage family struggles.
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Couples and Relationship Therapy
From long-term partnerships to short-term relationships, everyone experiences shifting dynamics and bumps in the road.
WHEN WORRY WORKS
When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress And Guide Your Teen to Success is a parent’s guide in the age of achievement culture and teenage anxiety.
Anxiety is an unavoidable part of parenting today. The book shows parents how to turn their unique parenting anxiety patterns into an advantage, instead of a liability.
REVIEWS FOR WHEN WORRY WORKS
"Revelatory. An exploration of parents’ often damaging preoccupation with academic achievement, while also providing gentle and constructive guidance on how to overcome it." — Jewish Chronicle
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"Grab this book and tame your anxiety. Your teenager will thank you." — Tovah Klein
"Revelatory. An exploration of parents’ often damaging preoccupation with academic achievement, while also providing gentle and constructive guidance on how to overcome it." — Jewish Chronicle 〰️ "Grab this book and tame your anxiety. Your teenager will thank you." — Tovah Klein
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Explore your Anxiety Reaction Types
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Parenting Anxiety Reaction Type (PART) Quiz
Dana created the Anxiety Reaction Types© (ART) framework to help adults identify some of the unconscious ways that anxiety can manifest. The Parenting Anxiety Reaction Types (PART) quiz includes 16 questions to help parents identify some of the unconscious ways that anxiety can manifest. Once you recognize your PARTs, you’ll be able to shift your parenting decisions to better align with your values, rather than reacting to your fears.
You may identify with aspects of the 8 ARTs©. Each reaction type is not written in stone. Consider them as frameworks for understanding, rather than rigid molds that can help you make small parenting changes with a large impact on your kid’s trajectory and mental health—as well as your own.
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Anxiety Reaction Type @ Work Quiz
Similar to the PART quiz, Dana’s Anxiety Reaction Types© (ART) framework can help identify the unconscious ways that anxiety can manifest at work. Our ways of managing anxiety are based on heredity, life experiences, and temperament—and often, we’re not aware that it’s even present. When we’re aware of our ART©, we can take control of our anxieties and use them to benefit ourselves and our work.
No ART© is better or worse than the other. They’re built to offer a different perspective on yourself and to improve your relationship with your work. The ART @ Work quiz is designed to help us shift our professional decisions to better align with our values, rather than reacting to our fears.
have a parenting dilemma? download Dr. dorfman’s free decision-making worksheet.
Parents are constantly making decisions, big and small, that will affect our child’s life. It’s an incredible privilege to make these choices—and extremely stressful. Parents often end up feeling torn between what we feel we should do, and what we want to do.
Dr. Dorfman created this free worksheet to help you do just that. This is not meant to be a quick fix solution but rather a tool to help parents start imagining creative solutions for what can feel like intractable dilemmas.