The Taconic Counseling Group

Nancy J. Ulrich, Ph.D.

Biography

Nancy J. Ulrich, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist, received her doctorate from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies of Adelphi University. She is currently engaged in postdoctoral training at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Ulrich works with children, adolescents and adults. Prior to joining Taconic Counseling Group, she served as the Chief Psychologist at the Herbert G. Birch Early Childhood Center, in Springfield Gardens, New York, and as an Adjunct Professor of developmental psychopathology at Queens College, City University of New York. She has also been the Clinical Director of Birch Family Camp, which hosts families affected by HIV and AIDS for a summer camp program. Dr. Ulrich writes and lectures to national conferences about psychotherapy with children and families. Currently, she serves as an Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at Pace University’s graduate program in Clinical-School Psychology.

Dr. Ulrich practices in Fishkill and Manhattan.

Current Interests:

I believe psychotherapy provides a unique arena in which to focus on life-changing events and opportunities. In my work, I have conducted psychotherapy with individuals who are facing emotional challenges, coping with illness or facing changes in their family life. Other foci of my psychotherapeutic work have been with adolescents and adults who wish to address relationship or career decisions, or sexual identity concerns. I also conduct psychological and neuropsychological testing and assessment of children and adolescents, techniques that can help clarify how emotional, cognitive, neuropsychological and environmental factors can affect an individual's ways of learning and coping with life events.

Even difficult life situations can be faced and understood by people of all ages, through the development of a language through which to communicate about facts and feelings. I work to help people find their own ways of doing this, through play, visualization, conversations, or writing. Psychotherapy can be a transformative tool through which to develop new ways to understand and handle life situations, fostering resilience and managing challenges. Observing life patterns, noticing what works and what needs change, and developing the strength to make such changes, is what makes the process so powerful

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