ABOUT
Dr. Mitchell Bradbury has extensive experience in treating anxiety and depression related to life events and transitions and clinical expertise with a variety of populations including those struggling with addictions and early recovery, psychological concomitants of medical issues including MS and HIV, as well as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Adult Attention Deficit Disorder.
Dr. Bradbury’s training was psychodynamic with a psychobiosocial perspective leading to an eclectic approach emphasizing the unique specificity of the presenting problem, the patient's family and educational history, biological and psychosocial strengths and weaknesses, gender and age to set viable and achievable goals in an acceptable time frame towards maximizing quality of life.
A significant part of Dr. Bradbury’s practice is dedicated to working with couples and families to maximize the communication of emotion and work through difficult interpersonal situations. He has also worked extensively with high level employees and professional athletes using his managerial experience to provide effective coaching in job performance and career counseling.
Dr. Bradbury adjusts his clinical focus depending on the presenting problem, yet is equally comfortable employing both psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral techniques to expedite long lasting well-being and meaningful change in his clients.
EDUCATION aND PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Dr. Mitchell Bradbury grew up in New York City and graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire where he also served as the President of their General Alumni Association and on the board of trustees from 2016-2018. He completed his undergradute education at The University of California, Berkeley where he majored in Psychology. In 1990 he received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida where he studied with well known personality theorist Theodore Millon, PhD.
Dr. Bradbury completed a clinical internship at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital and subsequently worked as a research scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute in the Biometrics Department which is responsible for the administration and oversight of the development of the main diagnostic nomenclature used throughout the world for psychiatric disorders known as the DSM.
Dr. Bradbury has held academic appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mt. Sinai Hospital where he was Assistant Clinical Director of The Narcotics Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Bradbury also served as supervising clinical faculty at St. Vincent's Hospital and NY Medical College.
Dr. Bradbury has been in private practice on the West Side and West Village in NY for the past 32 years and now also in Scarsdale NY.