REGINE ANNA SECKINGER, Ph.D.

Co-founder of The Flatiron Group, Dr. Seckinger is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides adult and adolescent psychotherapy and testing services.  Dr. Seckinger graduated NYU summa cum laude, received her doctoral degree from the City University of New York’s Graduate School & University Center, and completed an internship at the Department of Veterans Affairs Manhattan Campus working, among other things, with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder.  Until 2007, Dr. Seckinger was a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute exploring neuropsychological functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorders and served as supervising psychologist at the Center of Prevention and Evaluation (COPE), a research clinic specializing in the treatment of adolescents at high risk for major mental illnesses.  Dr. Seckinger then worked with the World Trade Center Mental Health Program at Bellevue Hospital Center, and was the Co-Director of the NYU-Bellevue Young Adult Program. She remains on faculty at the Department of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, is a volunteer clinician for Doctors of the World’s Human Rights Clinic | Survivors of Torture Program, and a clinical supervisor for the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology at City University.  Dr. Seckinger has served as guest reviewer for the American Journal of Psychiatry and Schizophrenia Research and is fluent in German and English. New York State License # 016528.

DVORA B. EFRAT, Ph.D.

Dr. Efrat, co-founder of The Flatiron Group, is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in adult and adolescent individual psychotherapy, and couples and group psychotherapy.  Dr. Efrat obtained a BA in Art and Psychology at Empire State College, received her doctoral degree from the City University of New York’s Graduate School & University Center, and successfully completed her internship at North Central Bronx Hospital, where she gained in-depth experience working with in psychotherapeutic contexts with severe psychopathology.  An adjunct professor of Clinical Psychology at Brooklyn College, Dr. Efrat teaches courses on psychopathology, testing,  theories of personality, and child development, holds advanced seminars in psychotherapy, and supervises graduate students in psychotherapy practice at the Brooklyn College Counseling Center.  Until 2005, Dr. Efrat was a supervising psychologist in the partial hospitalization program at North Central Bronx Hospital, where she also served as a clinical supervisor of psychology interns and externs.  Dr. Efrat has expertise in working with diverse populations and is comfortable treating a wide range of psychopathology.  She is fluent in French, Hebrew, and English and is currently in the Training Program for Adult Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR).   New York State License

# 017276.

DEREK M. TATE, M.D.

Dr. Tate joins Flatiron as chief psychiatric consultant.  Dr. Tate is Yeshiva University and Columbia University trained, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Tate brings a sophisticated,  eclectic and multidisciplinary approach to his treatment of psychiatric illness and emotional difficulties.  He skillfully integrates biological, psychological, and social aspects of illness and seeks solutions for cases which are not easily "fixed" by rote algorithm-based prescribing of medication.  Dr. Tate firmly believes in safe and appropriate pharmacologic management of illness but is also interested in his patients’ lives and past, and how these affect current levels of functioning. Prior to training in psychiatry, Dr. Tate trained in urban family medicine and thus has a good knowledge of the entire panorama of medical illness and the interface between medicine and psychiatry.  His areas of academic interest are community and public psychiatry, administrative psychiatry and program development, primary  care psychiatry  and  psychodynamic psychotherapy. He also has an interest in cross cultural psychiatry and GLBT related issues in the context of a treatment.