Jack Keefe, Ph.D.

Education

I received my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where my graduate work combined clinical training with quantitative research on psychotherapy process and outcomes, working with Robert J. DeRubeis. As an undergraduate, I studied psychology, biology, and history at Swarthmore College (a profoundly weird and sometimes wonderful place), where I graduated with High Honors.

Training

I completed my APA-accredited clinical internship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, with rotations in cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, transference-focused psychotherapy for personality disorders, prolonged exposure therapy for PTSD, the psychiatric emergency room, and the burn care unit. I was also part of the first volunteer staff at the Qlinic, Weill Cornell's student-run mental health clinic for sexual and gender minority patients with poor access to mental health treatments. I then completed an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell with Barbara Milrod, where I received advanced training in manualized psychodynamic approaches to panic disorder, PTSD, and personality disorders, and ran a pilot clinical trial of psychodynamic psychotherapy for PTSD among sexual and gender minorities.

Current and Past Positions

I hold a Voluntary Clinical Assistant Professorship in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, where I supervise psychiatry residents and psychology interns in psychodynamic psychotherapy and conduct research on psychotherapy process and outcomes. I also provide independent supervision of clinicians delivering trauma-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy within an ongoing clinical trial at the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System.

Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Long Island University-Brooklyn, where I taught graduate courses on research methodology, empirically-supported treatments for personality disorders, and historical and contemporary theoretical movements in psychology. Prior to that, I held a research fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.