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-AMY RUBENSTEIN, PH.D.
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Taking an integrative approach to impactful and sustainable patient care and healing.
Dr. Rubenstein earned her B.A. in Psychology from The George Washington University and her Ph.D. in Clinical Health Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She completed her clinical psychology internship at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Rubenstein continued at Weill Cornell Medicine for her postdoctoral fellowship where she served as Chief Postdoctoral Fellow. Post fellowship, she completed The William Alanson White Institute’s Intensive Psychoanalytic Program. Dr. Rubenstein refined her expertise in trauma at Harvard Medical School’s Global Trauma and Recovery Program.
Dr. Rubenstein draws on her extensive experience and evolved, integrative approach to help her patients identify limiting beliefs, break free from negative cycles, and overcome obstacles so that they can live more conscious, meaningful lives.
Dr. Rubenstein’s warm, intuitive approach towards healing empowers patients to transcend their past, move into the present moment where true healing can take place, and discover a happier, healthier outlook on life.
Taking an integrative approach to impactful and sustainable patient care and healing.
MEET AMY RUBENSTEIN
A highly skilled, licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience in private practice.
Dr. Rubenstein is committed to helping others lead purposeful, high-performing and fulfilling lives. She works with individuals who aspire to transform their lives by understanding and managing their stress, anxiety and emotional wellbeing. For over two decades she has helped her patients navigate grief, professional challenges, relationship difficulties, traumatic events and major life transitions.
Dr. Rubenstein is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and an Assistant Attending Psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She is an expert in the treatment of trauma and PTSD, and has worked with the Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2000 as a clinician, clinical supervisor and psychiatry resident lecturer.
Dr. Rubenstein actively participates in research at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is currently working as a clinician on a Department of Defense-funded clinical trial to treat U.S. veterans with PTSD following military sexual trauma.
MEET AMY RUBENSTEIN
A highly skilled, licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience in private practice.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity. To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible."
Tao Te Ching
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny."
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it."
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
“Every once in a while, I meet someone who radiates joy. These are the people who seem to glow with an inner light. They are kind, tranquil, delighted by small pleasures, and grateful for the large ones”
The Obstacle is the Way
“The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”
Shambhala
"Here bravery is the courage to be – to live in the world without any deception and with tremendous kindness and caring for others.”
The Body Keeps Score
“After trauma the world is experienced with a different nervous system. The survivor’s energy now becomes focused on suppressing inner chaos, at the expense of spontaneous involvement in their lives…This explains why it is critical for trauma treatment to engage the entire organism, body, mind, and brain.”
Conversations on Love
"It felt like we were holding hands in the past and the present and the future all at once."
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
“We have three major ways of handling feelings: suppression, expression, and escape.”
The Art of Communicating
“Deep listening has the power to help us create a moment of joy, a moment of happiness, and to help us handle a painful emotion.”
When Things Fall Apart
"The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
“There’s only one way to come to understand the other person’s story, and that’s by being curious. Instead of asking yourself, “How can they think that?!” ask yourself, “I wonder what information they have that I don’t?” Instead of asking,“How can they be so irrational?” ask, “How might they see the world such that their view makes sense?” Certainty locks us out of their story; curiosity lets us in.“
On Apology
“The interpersonal skills necessary for offering effective and meaningful apologies can be learned.. It is a behavior that requires of both parties an attitude of honesty, generosity, humility, commitment and courage.”
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
“At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.”
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
“At the heart of the Seven Principles approach is the simple truth that happy marriages are based on a deep friendship.”
Facing Panic: Self Help for People with Panic Attacks
"Every time you leave the scene to prevent or control a panic attack, you further convince yourself that escape is your only option. The good news is that we know how to correct both of these patterns.”
Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks
“The single most important way to win over panic attacks is to respond to them from a different point of view. To get better, you don’t struggle with anxiety, you don’t try to get rid of the uncomfortable sensations, you don’t avoid threatening situations. You choose to take a different attitude toward them. With this new attitude in place, you will know what actions to take.”