Hal Brickman

Walking into Hal Brickman’s practice for the first time, clients often find something they didn’t expect: a clinician who listens before he speaks, and who draws on nearly five decades of experience without making that history feel like a lecture. Hal works with individuals, couples, and families across a wide range of concerns — anxiety, depression, emotional abuse, professional burnout, and the particular strains that accumulate inside marriages and across generations.

His training is both rigorous and rare. After earning his graduate degree from Fordham University’s School of Social Services, Hal completed a three-year postgraduate psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at the Long Island Institute for Mental Health, where he received a certificate for his academic and clinical contributions. That analytic foundation remains visible in how he works: attentive to patterns, careful with language, and oriented toward understanding rather than quick fixes.

Hal also brought his thinking to a broader audience through a published book on counseling, translated into multiple languages, and has spoken publicly on psychological topics including the aftermath of collective trauma. He sees teenagers, adults, and elderly clients, and offers sessions online as well as in person in Albertson, New York.