Dr. Sulkin’s clinical practice is varied, with special emphasis on couples and family work, individual psychotherapy and executive coaching, and group therapy.

Dr. Sulkin has been a psychotherapist for over 30 years and a social therapist since 1992. He is the Founding Director of the Saratoga Center for Social Therapy, the owner of River Bend Psychological Services, PC (both in Saratoga Springs, NY) and an Associate of the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy (New York, NY). Dr. Sulkin is also the Principal partner in Sulkin Woolfe Development, LLC, a real estate development enterprise. He received his MA and PhD in Psychology from Emory University (Atlanta, GA) with a focus in both clinical psychology and cognitive neuropsychology. Dr. Sulkin received his Internship Certificate from the Albany Medical Center (Albany, NY), and his Post-Graduate Training Certificate from the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy.  He has held administrative, supervisory, teaching and consulting positions, in the public, academic and private sectors. He is a dynamic teacher and speaker, and has been a featured lecturer and workshop leader in Atlanta, New York City and upstate New York since 1986.

Dr. Sulkin has been associated with both the Manhattan Social Therapy Group (formerly the East Side Center for Social Therapy) and the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy (formerly the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy) since 1989-90, when he contributed to the work of Murray Dabby, LCSW, in bringing social therapy to Atlanta, GA. He helped to establish the Saratoga Center for Social Therapy in 1997 and ICOCOS, a nonprofit cultural organization, in 1998.

Dr. Sulkin has been associated in life and work with Lisa M. Woolfe-Sulkin (aka, Lisa M. Woolfe, MA, LCSWR), since 1991. They were married in Brooklyn, NY in 1994 and amicably separated in Saratoga Springs, NY in 2010.  They currently continue to work together and co-parent their two children, Sophia and Lewis (and two cats and a fish). Dr. Sulkin has been an active practitioner of yoga, meditation and Zen Buddhism since 1974.

Dr. Sulkin was born in 1951 in Washington, DC, and grew up in Bethesda MD. He was recognized as being a talented writer and visual artist from an early age, and he later attended both college and art school in Washington, DC, focusing initially on creative writing, theatre, visual arts and American social history, and finally on psychology. From his mid-teens to his mid-twenties he progressed through the educational system, on several occasions taking extended leaves of absence. During these years he held a variety of jobs, some of which were: construction laborer, Fuller Brush salesman, waiter, bartender, mental hospital aide, substitute middle and high school teacher and, for 18 months, he was the co-owner of a small but successful construction company. During this time he also served for three years as the Youth Program Volunteer Coordinator for a VISTA Community Action Center in Southeast Washington, DC. Dr. Sulkin has been active politically since the mid-1960’s, and most recently he was an elected delegate from Upstate New York to the Reform Party 2000 Presidential Nominating Convention in Long Beach, CA. Currently he is a member of the New York Independence Party.