ABOUT ME

Lucy Bichsel, Ph.D.

About Me

I work with adults who want to experience more calm and clarity, improved emotion regulation and flexibility, and a greater sense of meaning and purpose in all aspects of their lives. I work particularly well with clients who have some insight about their pain and stuck spots but have struggled to achieve deep and lasting change in other talk therapies.

I am a warm, observant, and direct therapist with deep training in specific modalities that help me get to the heart of the matter with my clients. I am an expert in the areas of personality, attachment, and emotion and how these systems interact and impact my clients across all areas of their lives. I serve a diverse group of clients  (e.g., asylum seekers and refugees, college students, journalists, service workers, CEOs and artists) and it is one of the great joys of my work to observe how core human motivations, needs and longings show up in all my clients regardless of age, social status, culture, or other maker of identity. (This is not to say that our complex and intersecting identities don’t shape our experience, but to say that at our cores, we are remarkably predictable and understandable.)  

My promise is that whatever pains or problems you are coming in with, I will face them with you, not as a removed observer, but as a fully engaged and compassionate guide. If you let me walk around in your world with you, I take that responsibility very seriously and treat it with the great care it demands.

CLINICAL TRAINING

  • Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

  • M.A. in Psychology from City University of New York – Hunter College, New York, NY

  • Psychology Pre-doctoral Internship at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine – Elmhurst Hospital, New York NY

  • Advanced Pre-doctoral Externships at Beth Israel Medical Center and Long Island University Psychological Services Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Private Practice Psychotherapist

  • Clinical Instructor and Supervisor, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus

  • Clinical Instructor, Rutgers University Clinical Psychology Program

  • Visiting Scholar & Clinical Psychology Supervisor, Columbia University

  • Clinical Instructor, New York University School of Medicine

  • Supervising Psychologist, Bellevue Hospital Center

MODALITIES AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING

My clinical work is firmly grounded in experiential and emotion-focused approaches, including

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) and Individuals (EFIT)

  • Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Processing (AEDP)

I also incorporate third-wave CBT and mindfulness approaches, including

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

  • Radical Self-Compassion