Dr. Max Kitaj is a board-certified psychiatrist who completed medical school at Brown University, internship in Ventura, California, and residency at NYU. He prides himself on fully showing up for his patients and offers care grounded in both time-tested psychiatric approaches and newer, cutting-edge methods that are gaining strong support in the field. He takes a psychotherapy-oriented approach and believes deeply in helping people process trauma in a non-pressured yet goal-oriented way. Dr. Kitaj has published on trauma in veteran populations, and when he is not seeing patients in his office, he is honored to work part-time at the Brooklyn VA, and serves as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he teaches residents and medical students. He also travels to learn and teach about traditional treatments for psychiatric problems from cultures around the world, always with an eye to learning about new approaches that help people feel better.