Jeffrey Harper

Jeffrey Harper, LCSW, ACSW, is a Harvard-educated psychotherapist and the former Assistant Director of a university mental health clinic in Manhattan with over 35 years’ experience treating a broad range of life challenges – anxiety, depression, transition from adolescence to adulthood, transition to retirement, marital and family conflict, career challenges, sexual identity and "coming out" issues, divorce and remarriage, and others.

Jeffrey has significant experience working on family law matters, evaluating and treating, at the request of family law (divorce) attorneys, individuals engaged in child custody cases in the Family Courts of New York State and who require assistance with co-parenting.

As the former Assistant Director of the Fordham University Counseling Center at Lincoln Center in New York City, he supervised doctoral candidates in clinical and counseling psychology, taught and co-led seminar for doctoral externs on the technique of psychodynamic psychotherapy, helped develop community education programs, in addition to treating his own caseload of patients. As Assistant Director, he treated patients from Fordham's undergraduate college, its "College at 60" for older students, as well as the graduate schools of law, business, counseling psychology and social work.

Prior to his Assistant Directorship at the Fordham University Counseling Center at Lincoln Center, Jeffrey Harper was a staff psychotherapist at the North Division of Montefiore Medical Center (formerly Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center) where he treated individuals and families across the full range of diagnostic categories. While at Our Lady of Mercy, he was a featured Grand Rounds lecturer, presenting his essay and talk The Decline of Adulthood: The Culture of Adolescence. In addition, Jeffrey Harper’s commentary, Abu Ghraib and the Dark Side of Humanity, co-written with Dr. Jeffery Dyke, was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Mr. Harper received his undergraduate degree with honors from Harvard and did his graduate training at the Hunter College School of Social Work. He completed internships at the Payne Whitney inpatient psychiatric unit at New York-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center, Lehman College Counseling Center and Evander Childs High School, Bronx, NY. He is a New York State-Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a member of the Academy of Clinical Social Workers.

He has also received training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City and treats adolescents and adults for depressive and anxiety disorders, as well as other problems. He has considerable experience working with attorneys and those in the financial industry.

Mr. Harper has worked in West Africa as both a team member and leader of short-term, multi-national rural development projects. In his avocation as a creative writer, he has received several national literary awards; written and received productions of several stage plays and a musical; and published two novels - Please Cooperate - A Comedy of Bad Manners and Thy Will Be Done - and three of his stage plays, as well as a small book of reflections, A Few Thoughts from a Small Life, available on Amazon. A native of Montreal, Canada, he lives in New York City.