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Dr. Sommer Anderson

is in full-time Private Practice as a licensed psychologist (NY State 005532-1) in New York City and holds a Certificate of Specialization in Psychoanalysis from the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), certified by the Somatic Experiencing ™ International Institute, she enhances her treatment of people who have had overwhelming physical and emotional experiences.  Dr. Sommer Anderson is a member of the Teaching and Consulting Faculty in the Certificate Program for Trauma Studies at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis in New York City.

Treating people with medical illness, physical disability, and trauma from the beginning of her career in 1974, she began specializing in treating chronic back pain and other stress-related physical symptoms in 1979.  She has developed an approach that integrates contemporary psychoanalytic theory, research in the neuroscience of emotional and cognitive processing, and the neurobiology of attachment, pain and trauma.

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Owner: F. S. Anderson