Dr. Marguerat Degaard is a New York State Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Her academic journey started in Switzerland with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Geneva. Combining her passion for dance and the art of therapy, she came to the US and obtained a Master’s degree in Dance/Movement Therapy in 1986 from Hunter College, NYC. She has worked as a Dance Therapist for 14 years, developing, implementing and supervising creative art therapies programs. In 2005 Dr. Marguerat Degaard received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Adelphi University. From January 2007 to September 2017 she worked for the Behavioral Health Services at Jacobi Medical Center holding different positions as a Chief Psychologist, Unit Coordinator and for two years Acting Director of Psychology and Training. She was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from January 2011 to September 2017.

She completed the Adult Psychotherapy Program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the fall of 2015. At this time she is in private practice and still supervises PhD candidates.
Her approach is integrative and flexible greatly influenced and informed by her artistic background. Her 25 + year work with Severe Mental Illnesses has taught her profound humility in the face of the deepest layers of humanity. She views psychotherapy as an in-depth collaborative and creative process which expands and frees self-expressions allowing untold stories to be told, contradictions to be bridged, and emotions to be touched or re-touched towards richer and healthier self-understanding and life experiences.

Psychotherapeutic services offered in English and French.

Specialties include: Issues of depression, anxiety, body image, lack of self-confidence, FOMO (fear of missing out), separation anxiety, losses, sense of emptiness, lack of inspiration or creativity as well as any symptom(s) related to mood disorders, anxiety-related disorders, and personality disorders.

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