Kent Jarratt LCSW is a Masters-level, licensed social worker who has a flexible and eclectic approach to treatment. He has been trained in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy, with a specialty in hypnotherapy. A graduate of the Hunter College School of Social Work, Kent has 18 years' experience as a practicing therapist. He is licensed in New York and New Jersey.

Kent is former President of the New York Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis (NYSEPH), which conducts a one-hundred hour intensive training program in hypnotherapy. He is also a member of NYSEPH's faculty. He was Director of the Hypnotherapy Service of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies for seven years where he supervised other hypnotherapists.

Kent has a certificate in the treatment of eating disorders from the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where he also teaches and supervises.

As a staff consultant to the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York City, he supervises graduate social work interns.

Deeply committed to his work and profession, Kent finds real satisfaction in helping his clients solve problems and benefit from treatment, either in short-term hypnotherapy or psychotherapy.

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