Clinical Supervision

Over the past forty years Dr. Pivnick has taught, variously, lifespan development, infant development, oedipal development, middle childhood development, and adolescent development, as well as developmental psychopathology and child/adolescent psychotherapy in university graduate programs and postgraduate institutes.

She has also done attachment research under the auspices of Dr. Larry Aber when he served as Chief Investigator at the Barnard Toddler Center, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy research under the auspices of Dr. Norbert Freedman at the Downstate Medical Center Department of Psychiatry. The latter research focused on the connection between discourse and symptoms in the face of threatened object loss and won the Stanley Berger Award from the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research (IPTAR).

Dr. Pivnick has published papers on language development, working with reading resistance, and adoption. As a result, she often asked to supervise clinicians treating psychotherapy cases that involve early developmental trauma or attachment related issues. Sometimes these are child therapy cases; sometimes adults. She provides this supervision individually or in groups.

Dr. Pivnick is currently running a Child Psychotherapy Supervision Group on Friday mornings from 9:30 AM – 11 AM in lower Manhattan.