Peter Fraenkel
Peter Fraenkel, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at The City College of the City University of New York; a former faculty member of and frequent presenter at the Ackerman Institute for the Family; and is in private practice in New York City. Dr. Fraenkel is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Medical Center, where he instituted and ran the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), a distress and divorce prevention program for couples. He received the 2004 American Family Therapy Academy’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice for joint work on family-based treatment of incest, and received AFTA’s 2012 award for Innovative Contribution to Family Therapy for his work in the area of time and couples, integrative approaches to couple therapy, and resilience-strengthening programs for homeless families. Dr. Fraenkel is the author of Sync Your Relationship, Save Your Marriage: Four Steps to Getting Back on Track (2011, Palgrave-Macmillan), co-author of The Relational Trauma of Incest: A Family-Based Approach to Treatment (2001, Guilford Press), and author of numerous other publications on integrative approaches to couple and family therapy, distress prevention for couples, last chance couple therapy, integrating the arts and humanities into couple therapy, technology issues in couple relationships, challenges facing homeless families, teaching couple and family therapy and multicultural issues, and many other topics. He is a former member of the Board of Directors and is an Advisory Editor for the journal Family Process, an reviewer for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Psychoanalytic Psychology, and the Clinical Social Journal. Dr. Fraenkel lectures nationally and internationally and has been widely featured on the topic of couples and families in the popular press, including television, cable, radio, magazines, and newspapers.
PhD
Clinical Psychology
Duke University
1988
Addictions, Anger Management, Anxiety/Panic Disorders, Career/Employment Concerns, Depression, Family, Grief/Loss, LGBTQ Issues, Marriage & Divorce, Parenting Issues, Sexual Abuse/Rape, Stress, Trauma/PTSD
Behavioral, Cognitive/Behavioral, Existential Psychotherapy, Feminist, Parent Guidance, Prevention, Psychodynamic, Relational, Short-Term (Brief Treatment), Systemic
Heterosexual, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
Male, Female, Transgender, Gender-queer/non-conforming
Nationality - Brazil, Nationality - Germany, Nationality - Hong Kong, China, Nationality - India, Nationality - Republic of Ireland, Nationality - Kenya, Nationality - Scotland, United Kingdom, Nationality - United States
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