Sara Denning, Ph.D.

Sara Denning is a Clinical Psychologist in NYC and has been in private practice for over 16 years. She has developed a therapy approach called Adaptive Behavioral Therapy. This new method of changing behaviors around symptoms is based on neurological research which provides ample proof that the brain is a very adaptive mechanism using past and present experience to respond to stress. The making of new neurological synapse connections has been used as a base for this learned, adaptive behavior approach to personal therapy. Adaptive Behavioral Therapy differs from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in its emphasis on learned – primed - responses and the creation of new adaptive reactions to stress.