Dr. Paul Greene of Manhattan Center For Behavioral Therapy

Director

Dr. Greene is an expert in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), OCD, depression, overeating, panic attacks, health anxiety, and the applications of mindfulness and meditation in the treatment of anxiety. He specializes in helping survivors of rape, assault, and accidents who develop posttraumatic anxiety. He has training in the use of exposure and response prevention, cognitive processing therapy (CPT), prolonged exposure therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia. He is also certified in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).

He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Boston University and completed postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Greene served as an assistant professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine for six years. At Mount Sinai, he conducted research and supervised medical residents. He served as principal investigator of an NIH-funded research project that trained over 300 social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other clinicians in cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Dr. Greene has been invited to speak about his research in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is a certified meditation instructor and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Dr. Greene has been quoted and his work described in popular media, including Cosmopolitan, Salon, WABC-TV, the New York Times Magazine, and Forbes.

The problems Dr. Greene treats include the following:

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) including primarily obsessive or “pure-O” OCD and other types of OCD
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Panic attacks and panic disorder
  • Generalized anxiety disorder
  • Phobias
  • Depersonalization
  • Derealization
  • Social anxiety
  • Chronic insomnia
  • Health anxiety or hypochondria
  • Emotion regulation difficulties
  • Self-harm and chronic suicidality
  • Alcohol overuse
  • Marijuana addiction/overuse
  • Prescription medication abuse
  • Cocaine addiction
  • Depression
  • Binge eating
  • Hair pulling
  • Skin picking
Back to main therapists page