Tracy A. Prout

Dr. Tracy Prout is co-owner/director of IMPACT Psychological Services. In addition to supervising in the postdoctoral program at IMPACT, Tracy works with adolescents, adults, families, and couples. Tracy’s therapeutic approach is warm and open. She generally practices psychodynamic psychotherapy but also integrates other therapeutic modalities. Her approach is flexible and tailored to suit the needs of each client. Tracy’s work is informed by her clinical experience and the latest in evidence based research. In addition to her private practice work, Tracy offers individual and group trainings in Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C), an evidence based psychodynamic intervention for school-aged children with disruptive behavior problems. She also provides deliberate practice coaching for clinicians across a wide range of disciplines. Tracy is the author of several books - including two books for APA (Deliberate Practice in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Deliberate Practice in Multicultural Therapy) and Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors: A Psychodynamic Approach - as well as dozens of peer-reviewed papers.

Current Position

2021- Present

Director

IMPACT Psychological Services, Beacon & Mamaroneck, NY

Psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adultsPsychoeducational and personality assessment

Prior Experience

2013 – 2022

Associate Professor of Psychology

Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY

School-Clinical Child Combined Doctoral Program

Selected Publications

Books

• Harris, J., Jin, J., Hoffman, S., Phan, S., Prout, T. A., Rousmaniere, T., & Vaz, A. (2023). Deliberate practice in multicultural therapy. American Psychological Association.
• Bate, J., Prout, T. A., Rousmaniere, T., & Vaz, A. (2022). Deliberate practice in child and adolescent psychotherapy. American Psychological Association.
• Prout, T. A., Moretz, M. W., & Kufferath-Lin, T. (2021). Essential interviewing and counseling skills: An integrated approach to practice, 2nd edition. Springer.
• Hoffman, L., Rice, T. R., & Prout, T. A. (2016). Manual of regulation-focused psychotherapy for children (RFP-C) with externalizing behaviors: A psychodynamic approach. Routledge. Routledge.
• Prout, T. A., & Moretz, M. W. (2014). Essential interviewing and counseling skills: An integrated approach to practice. Springer.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Papers

• Békés, V., Aafjes‐van Doorn, K., Luo, X., Prout, T.A., Hoffman, L. (2023) Therapist self-disclosure in teletherapy early in the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with real relationship and traumatic distress. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy.
• Békés, V., Aafjes‐van Doorn, K., Luo, X., Christman-Cohen, I., & Prout, T.A. (2023) Heterogeneity in trajectories of traumatic distress at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.
• Békés, V., Aafjes‐van Doorn, K., Roberts, K. E., Stukenberg, K., Prout, T., & Hoffman, L. (2023). Adjusting to a new reality: Consensual qualitative research on therapists' experiences with teletherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23477
• Storey, E., Nimroody, T., Prout, T. A., Hoffman, L., & Rice, T. (2023). Feasibility of a psychodynamic school-partnered mental health service: A pilot study. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 22(1), 14-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15289168.2023.2166330
• Hoffman, L., Bernstein, M., Prout, T. A., & Rice, T. (2023). Addressing emotion regulation with children: Play, verbalization of feelings, and reappraisal. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 22(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/15289168.2023.2165874
• Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Békés, V., Prout, T. A., & Hoffman, L. (2022). Practicing online during COVID-19: Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapists’ experiences. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(4), 665-694. https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651221114053

• Békés, V., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., McCollum, J., Prout, T. A., & Hoffman, L. (2021). The development of a self-report scale to assess therapists’ acceptance of online psychotherapy via video conferencing. Journal of Clinical Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23289

• Aafjes-van Doorn, K. & Prout, T. A. (2021). Changing attitudes towards evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 39(3), 217–225. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000397

• Prout, T. A., Goodman, G., Chung, H., & Sherman, A. (2021). Psychotherapy process in Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000275

• Békés, V., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Zilcha-Mano, S., Prout, T. A., & Hoffman, L. (2021). Psychotherapists’ acceptance of online therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: A machine learning approach. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 28(6), 1403-1415. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2682

• Prout, T. A., Rice, T., Chung, H., Gorokhovsky, Y., Murphy, S., & Hoffman, L. (2021) Randomized controlled trial of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children: A manualized psychodynamic treatment for externalizing behaviors. Psychotherapy Research, 32(5), 555-570. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2021.1980626

• Udwin, S., Kufferath-Lin, T., Prout, T. A., Rice, T., & Hoffman, L. (2021). Little girl, big feelings: Online child psychotherapy amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 20(4), 354-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/15289168.2021.1999158

• Prout, T.A., Zilcha-Mano, S., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Békés, V., Christman-Cohen, I., Whistler, K., Kui, T., & Di Giuseppe, M. (2020). Predicting psychological distress during COVID-19: A machine learning approach. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586202
• Prout, T. A. & Cohen, T. (2020). What happened to the nanny? Parental reflections on secondary caregiver loss. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 19(4), 427-441. https://doi.org/10.1080/15289168.2020.1803667
• Prout, T A., Magaldi, D., Kim, E. E., & Cha, J. (2020). Christian clients and their counselors. Spirituality in Clinical Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000238
• Hoffman, L., & Prout, T. A. (2020). Helping parents spare the rod: Addressing their unbearable emotions. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 73(1), 46-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690867
• Prout, T. A., Bernstein, M., Gaines, E., Aizin, S., Sessler, D., Racine, E., Spigelman, A., Rice, T., & Hoffman, L. (2019). Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children in clinical practice: Case vignettes from psychotherapy outcome studies. International Journal of Play Therapy, 29(1), 43–53. https://doi.org/10.1037/pla0000111
• Prout, T. A., Faber, L., Racine, E., Sperling, R., & Hillman, R. (2019). Clinical encounters with children in the Trump era. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 45(2), 191-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/0075417X.2019.1649709
• Nehrig, N., Prout, T. A., & Aafjes-van Doorn, K. (2019). Whose anxiety are we treating, anyway? Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75, 1866-1878. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22824
• Prout, T. A. (2019). Pregnancy and disability: Therapist transitions and transformations. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. 29(2), 211-223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/int0000140
• Prout, T. A., Rice, T. R., Murphy, S., Gaines, E. Aizin, S., Sessler, D., Ramchandani, T., Racine, E., Gorokhovsky, Y., & Hoffman, L. (2019). Why is it easier to get mad than it is to feel sad? Pilot study of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 72(1), 2-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180027