About Our Director

Elliot Wineburg, M.D., has reached beyond traditional psychiatric practice into supplementary treatments for Stress Related Disorders. Building upon his early experimentation in physiological psychology, he became a forerunner in the medical use of biofeedback therapies. His prominence as a leading teacher of hypnotic techniques has also created an active practice in the specialty of hypnotherapy.

Dr. Wineburg holds three degrees: a Bachelors', a Masters' in Experimental Psychology, as well as the MD He has been in active practice for well over a quarter of a century, majority of the time spent in Manhattan.

He has been honored by his colleagues in the roles of: President, New York State Clinical Hypnosis Society, President of the Biofeedback Society of New York, and President of the Queens District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and was awarded with a Life Fellowship of the American Psychiatric Association.

An active teacher, Dr. Wineburg has served for several decades as Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the prestigious Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "One of the greatest pleasures in my medical career is the alert responses from grateful pupils, future doctors" says Dr. Wineburg.

Featured at a number of medical meetings for practicing clinicians, Dr. Wineburg has presented to colleagues the techniques of his unique smoking cessation therapies.

Alerted some twenty years ago to the need for effective treatments for smoking cessation, Dr. Wineburg developed a medical model for treatment of this most difficult condition. Following the practice of other physicians each smoker is seen individually for one-on-one treatment.

A full smoking history of at least one hour is obtained then followed by a selection of appropriate antismoking therapies: specific nicotine replacement (by one of the three current modalities), stress relief through biofeedback, hypnotherapy, specific psychotropic medications, and cognitive therapy.