As a psychologist and psychotherapist, I believe that psychotherapy is most beneficial when it can address both broad and specific problems and help people find solutions to life's conflicts and stressors. Chronic stress and chronic relational conflicts often become obstacles to leading an emotionally healthy and rewarding existence. Ultimately, I believe the goal of therapy is to enable people to make decisions that will allow them to feel most satisfied, productive and in control of their lives. Likewise, learning to cope with life's everyday stressors, as well as crises can be an important part of psychotherapeutic work. My approach is tailored to individual needs and focuses on building a collaborative dialogue in which to work towards identified therapeutic goals. This includes symptom reduction (anxiety, depression, self-harm), as well as issues pertaining to gender, sexuality, creative blocks, performance anxiety, infertility and parenting issues, among others.

Education & experience

Education

Yeshiva University

Saint Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (Medical Psychology)

Practice

Shara Sand, PSYD

Professional memberships

American Psychological Association

Performing Arts Medicine Association

Awards and publications

Sand, S. (Accepted, July 2013). “Coming out, being out: Reconciling loss and hatred in becoming whole”. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

Sand, S. (2012). “When the patient is gay: Psychodynamic reflections on navigating the medical system.” In The Interpersonal Dimension of Modern Medicine: Insights for Clinicians, Patients and Families, M. O’Reilly-Landry, Editor, London: Radcliffe Medical Press.

Sand, S. (2012). Review of the book, “For the Ferryman: A Personal History” Charles Silverstein (2011). Chelsea Station Editions, New York, NY. Division 44 (APA), Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues Newsletter, 28 (1).

Sand, S. (2008). “The story of an accidental academic activist and what she found along the way”. The Psychoanalytic Activist, Newsletter of Section 9, Fall #15, Division 39 of APA.

Sand, S. (2007). “Future Considerations: Interactive identities, interactive selves”. The Psychoanalytic

Sand, S. (2006). Review of the book “Lesbians, Feminism and Psychoanalysis”. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 93, 85-86.

Suchet, M. & Sand, S. (1999). “Performing desire: Musical expressions of female sexuality”. Psychoanalysis and

O'Dowd, M.A., Gomez, M. F., Sand, S., Klein, D.A., Marconi, M. (1999).“Delivering mental health care to HIV+

Sand, S. & Levin, R. (1997). “Music and its effect on dream content: An empirical analysis”. Dreaming, 7, 215-220.

Sand, S. & Levin, R. (1992). "Music and its relationship to dreams and the self”. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 15, 161 197.

Facilitating the development of ethnic and racial minority psychology students American Psychological Association, CEMRRAT Grant 2013

“Diversity Training Workshops”, American Psychological Association, CEMRRAT Grant 2007

“Developing GLBT-Affirmative Psychoanalytic Curricula”. American Psychological Association, Interdivisional Grant - Divisions 39 and 44, 2006.

"International Perspectives on the Use of Physically and Psychologically Coercive Interrogation Techniques: The Involvement of Psychologists and Physicians and the Effectiveness of the Methods", Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs Summer Faculty Research Grant, Yeshiva University, 2006.

Background

Languages spoken

English

Gender

Female

NPI number

#1013066778

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