Patricia Pitta

When someone finally decides to pick up the phone — after weeks of telling themselves they should be able to handle it alone — Dr. Patricia Pitta is the kind of psychologist they tend to find on the other end. Whether the strain is showing up in a marriage, in a child’s classroom struggles, in a parent who is aging faster than anyone planned for, or in the quiet erosion that comes from never being fully off the clock, she meets people at exactly the point where managing alone has stopped working.

Dr. Pitta is a board-certified clinical and family psychologist, an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and has served as an adjunct professor and supervisor at St. John’s University for two decades. Her practice in Manhasset, New York — with online sessions available — works with children, adolescents, couples, and adults navigating anxiety, depression, eating disorders, marital conflict, parenting challenges, and the particular pressures of midlife.

Her approach is integrative: she looks at the individual, the family, and the broader systems that shape both — understanding that what feels like a personal failing is rarely only that. As she sees it, every dilemma carries a solution; finding it takes honesty, effort, and a willingness to change.