David Ransen

David Ransen brings more than four decades of clinical experience to a practice built on careful, individualized work with the people who come to him. Drawing on doctoral training from Cornell University and graduate study in Marriage and Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University, he has developed a broad command of human psychology — one deepened further by teaching at institutions including Harvard Medical School, Princeton, and Tulane, and by publishing in both peer-reviewed journals and widely read outlets such as the New York Times and Scientific American.

Adults navigating anxiety, panic, or sleeplessness, couples working through communication breakdowns or the aftermath of infidelity, parents managing the friction of blended families or the slow weight of a child’s school struggles — these are the people Dr. Ransen works with, and the concerns he has spent his career learning to address. He also sees individuals dealing with chronic illness, professional burnout, and the particular stress of a career at a crossroads — including the kind of low-grade exhaustion that builds when a family’s evenings are spent side by side but eyes down on separate screens.

Dr. Ransen holds active membership in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the International Hypnosis Research Institute. He practices from West Palm Beach, Florida, and offers virtual sessions.