Adult and Adolescent Psychology — Dr. Michael A. Civin’s Clinical Focus

Understanding the Patient-Centered Approach of a Decades-Long Psychology Practitioner

Every patient who walks through a psychologist’s door brings a unique history, a distinct set of needs, and a specific developmental context. Skilled clinicians recognize this individuality and adapt accordingly. Dr. Michael A. Civin has built his practice around this understanding, cultivating specialized expertise across adult psychology, adolescent psychology, and related disciplines over a career spanning close to thirty years.

In the realm of adult psychology, Dr. Civin works with patients navigating the full complexity of adult life — relationships, professional stress, identity concerns, and the kind of long-standing psychological patterns that often first emerge in childhood and manifest most clearly in adulthood. His psychoanalytic training, which includes a Postdoctoral Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy earned at Adelphi University in 1993, gives him particular depth in working with these deeper layers of personality.

His expertise in adolescent psychology is equally well-developed. Working with teenagers requires a sensitivity to developmental stage, identity formation, and the specific social pressures that define adolescent experience. Dr. Civin brings not only clinical skill but also academic grounding to this work, having spent considerable time as an educator and researcher focused on psychological development.

Psychodiagnostics is another core element of his practice — a branch of psychology that evaluates personality and behavioral tendencies through structured clinical assessment. This kind of rigorous testing can be especially important at the start of a therapeutic relationship, where clear diagnostic understanding helps determine the most effective treatment approach.

Dr. Civin additionally practices group psychology and supervision, two areas that reflect his broader view of mental health as something shaped not only by individual experience but by relational and professional contexts as well.

These clinical strengths are grounded in an educational background of genuine distinction. He graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1968, went on to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, earned graduate degrees from the University of Oregon and Adelphi University’s Derner Institute, and received his doctoral degree from Adelphi in 1988.

Today, he operates as a senior psychologist at Rose Hill Psychological Services in the Bronx, which he co-founded in 2008, while also maintaining private practice locations in Manhattan, Astoria, and Bayville. For patients seeking thoughtful, experienced psychological care in New York City, Dr. Michael A. Civin offers a breadth of expertise that is genuinely hard to replicate.