Nat Kuhn, MD

I do a sort of therapy that is very active and focused, known as Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. As I practice it, this therapy is based on the idea that many difficulties people experience have to do with avoiding or having difficulty accessing feelings.

As the Assistant Director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Harvard Medical School, I work closely with the Director and originator of this style of therapy, Dr. Leigh McCullough. I'm the second author on our book for therapist, Treating Affect Phobia: a Manual for Short-Term Dynamic Therapy (Guilford Press, 2003). I have trained many therapists in this sort of therapy.

This therapy starts with an initial evaluation session (often 50 minutes, but sometimes as long as 3 hours), followed by weekly 50-minute therapy sessions. Therapies in this model tend to average around 30 sessions, though some are longer and some are shorter.

I also have training in other sorts of therapy, including longer-term therapy and Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).