Doris Bertocci, LCSW

Doris Bertocci, LCSW, is a psychotherapist with decades of clinical experience and a long-standing private practice in Westchester. Her clinical and scholarly work centers on the psychology of being adopted across the lifespan, with particular emphasis on adolescents and adults, an area she identifies as an underdeveloped clinical specialty within mental health training and practice. Grounded in a psychodynamic framework, her approach centers the subjective experience of adopted persons and explores the enduring impact of early relinquishment, attachment disruption, identity development, and unconscious meanings of loss and belonging. She has published in this area and brings a developmental, systems-informed, and clinically nuanced perspective to the psychodynamic treatment of adopted individuals.