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Dr. Michael Brustein
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Wait time
4.84
Bedside manner
5.00
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Dr. Michael Brustein
NY
All provider availabilityToday, Apr 22 – Tue, May 5
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99% of patients have successfully booked with these insurancesAetna
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Dr. Michael Brustein
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Dr. Brustein provides psychotherapy to individuals in New York City and New Jersey. His practice specialities include men's mental health issues, anxiety, anger management and depression. He utilizes expertise in mindfulness, CBT and psychodynamic therapy to fit the specific needs of his clients. Mindfulness and CBT can help you learn skills to manage negative feelings or acute symptoms of depression or anxiety. For more in depth issues such as understanding relationship patterns, he uses a combination of mindfulness and psychodynamic therapy. By mindfully exploring patterns in and outside of the therapy room people can achieve psychological growth.
Patient reviews
All reviews have been submitted by patients after interacting with the practice.
Overall rating
4.95
Wait time
4.84
Bedside manner
5.00
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He made me feel comfortable to open up and helped reframe my mindset.
June 24, 2018Kate S.Verified patient
Dr. Brustein has been instrumental in helping me deal with anxiety and panic attacks. His emphasis on mindfulness and instruction on various exercises was effective in dealing with symptoms. More importantly, he also worked with me to identify the underlying causes of my anxiety and ultimately helped me transform my approach to living in ways that have resulted in lasting and durable healing. His approach is refreshingly engaging - he will both listen and speak as necessary, not merely sit back and listen.
RDVerified patient
I have been a patient of Dr. Brustein's for over five years. He has helped me tremendously. He is very good at simplifying very complicated issues and synthesizing bigger problems so I can understand them. He is a great listener and very knowledgeable.
In terms of scheduling and professionalism, he is very easy to communicate with and I've never had to wait more than five minutes for my appointment and rarely have to wait at all. I would recommend him without reservation.
DMVerified patient
Dr. Brustein is an extremely talented psychotherapist. At my first appointment I felt comfortable, as if I were seeing an old friend. Dr. Brustein is very laid-back, but his focus is sharp, and his focus is on you. And I trust him completely. He is incredibly smart and has helped me gain insight into the thoughts and actions that prevent me from being happy. He has a great sense of humor which comes in handy! He turned me on to Mindfulness which has helped me tremendously. Michael is very gentle and kind. I know that he cares about me, as he must for every one of his patients. I feel I've made great progress in the almost 3 years I have worked with him.
PEVerified patient
Michael is a warm, insightful, and thoughtful person. He is patient and sincerely listens. He has great empathy and has offered me terrific guidance over time. But more importantly, I feel very safe with expressing my most intimate truths with him. I've learned to manage and balance my life much better as a result of meeting with him. I've learned to accept myself for who and where I am--and to stop limiting myself, since working with him. What I love most about Michael is, despite how I may be feeling on a given day, he can somehow always make me smile and at times laugh...out loud. He has truly enriched my life and I'm very grateful for him. I highly recommend him.
SVVerified patient
Dr. Brustein is easy to talk to and always makes me feel comfortable no matter how complicated the subject matter is. He can understand what's underneath the things you are talking about and help you get to the issues that directly affect your life. He is an experienced and knowledgeable professional that listens really well and provides great insights. Highly recommend therapy with him.
MOVerified patient
This was really the first time that I worked with a psychologist. As Michael got to know me during our sessions he helped me over time pin point and tackle the main "problems" right away even though some of them I didn't even know existed before we started the exploration process. He also recommended me to an awesome psychiatrist and they have worked hand in hand to further my progress. I honestly thought that I was going to go see him , get some insight, and he was going to help me and "fix" things and then I could check that off the list and stop going. But it feels like my personal situation was more like an onion. Once I peel back one layer we started working on the next. This evolution over time is something I really didn't expect, but am so grateful that it happened. Overall my family and friends have seen a huge improvement in my life, my relationships are so much more than they were and overall and I can honestly say I am living life at a level that I couldn't even imagine a year ago. I am soooooo excited about the future! I would recommend Michael to anyone!
DDVerified patient
I first worked with Dr. Brustein a couple of years ago for several months and recently over the past nine months. He is a brilliant psychologist who displays the following key elements that I find effective for me - being present & engaged during the session, consistent & interactive, observant & intuitive, professional & compassionate, curious & thoughtful. Dr. Brustein has an excellent memory and a keen aptitude for building knowledge and understanding of a patient (me in this case). I find this talent of his most helpful for me as I grow to understand myself better and thus become a more effective human being in life and towards society. Every session with him has given me insight and direction about my past, present state and future path, starting from the very first one.
DSVerified patient
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