Consultation

Dr. Pivnick has consulted attorneys, museum designers, and hospital-based program developers, as well as educators.

Schools:

Funded by a grant awarded by the Anna Freud Foundation, I currently work as a consulting psychologist at The Parkside School in Manhattan.

 

Museum Exhibition Design:

Beginning in 2006, I consulted to Thinc Design on their partnership with the National September 11th Memorial and Museum, particularly on design issues related to how loss, trauma, and grieving may affect visitor experience, the design of spaces, and methods of storytelling that enhance memorialization. Since relational memorialization involves shared memory and collective grieving, it aims to restore severed communal bonds and dismantled cultural ideals. The museum experience was meant to be a form of cultural renewal that could transform traumatized mourners into a community of memory with an ethical dimension..

 

Forensic Psychology:

Having been faculty at the Family Forensic Psychology Postgraduate Program at the Washington Square Institute since 1999, I have consulted to a number of attorneys regarding cases with psychological issues, including child custody litigation.

 

Staff Development Training:

In the 1980’s, I did Staff Development Training for a number of NYC institutions/agencies, including Victim Services Agency and the Board of Education.

 

Health Care:

As a consultant to New England Rehabilitation Hospital in the 1970’s, I designed and implemented pioneering programs for patients suffering from chronic pain, neurological disease, and cardiac disease, as well as traumatic brain injury. Several of these programs were funded as Blue Cross/Blue Shield pilot projects. I also lectured extensively at Boston area hospitals on mindbody approaches to treatment and prevention.