Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and Bedford Hills, NY. He has worked with children, adolescents and individual adults for the past 28 years and is also an experienced couples therapist. He lectures and leads workshops on The Art of Living, Human Flourishing in a Time of Peril, Meditation and Therapy, and Deepening Intimacy. Dr. Rubin also conducts executive retreats and consults with established groups who want to improve group communication and increase intimacy. Dr. Rubin has worked in non-traditional ways with troubled families, meeting for extended periods at a time, in order to break through difficult and long-standing family dynamics that are causing severe dysfunction and heartbreak.
Dr. Rubin is a graduate of Princeton University, Columbia University and Union Institute. He received psychoanalytic training at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He has published three books, numerous articles and has taught at various psychoanalytic institutes and universities.
A long term practitioner of meditation and yoga, Dr. Rubin is widely known as one of the leading authorities on the integration of meditation and psychotherapy. In his ground-breaking and critically acclaimed Psychotherapy & Buddhism: Towards an integration, Dr. Rubin forged his own unique synthesis of Eastern and Western thought. He illuminated each discipline's strengths and weaknesses and the ways in which they could enrich each other. He is completing a book entitled The Art of Living: How to Make Your Life a Masterpiece, and is working on an integration of psychotherapy and yoga.