Irit Felsen, PhD

Irit Felsen, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Columbia University and at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University. 

Dr. Felsen is currently the Chair of the Older Adults and Caregivers Work Group in the American Psychological Association Interdivision Covid-19 Task Force, and the Co-Chair of the Trauma Work Group in the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship to the United Nations. 

Dr. Felsen is a practitioner-researcher, combining clinical work, teaching and research. 

Dr. Felsen’s specialties include the effects of trauma on survivors and in their families, intergenerational transmission in families; couple and family therapy; resilience, self-care and well-being, and adult development in the later years of life.

Her papers have been published in American journal of Psychiatry; Psychoanalytic Psychology ; American Journal of Orthopsychiatry; Psychoanalysis, Self and Context; Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, Policy, and others. 

Dr. Felsen is a member of:  the American Psychological Association (APA)

                                                 Division 56 of the APA (Trauma Division)

                                                 American Association on Aging

                                                 American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress

                                                 International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology