Warden Prescott is a NYS licensed social worker and postdoctoral fellow at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine. Prior to the pandemic, he was adjunct professor of philosophy at Syracuse University and a lecturer in bioethics & humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He has worked with patients for over 10 years, first as a philosophical counselor supervised by members of Upstate’s Department of Psychiatry, and more recently as a psychotherapist.
Dr. Prescott serves as co-director of Principium Psychiatry’s intensive outpatient program for mood and anxiety disorders with his colleague Patrick Wester PMHNP-BC. Being both humanistic and psychoanalytically-informed, Principium’s outpatient program is unique. Hence, it requires a unique touch, which Dr. Prescott and the clinical team at Principium Psychiatry provide. In addition to administering the IOP, Dr. Prescott facilitates multiple therapy groups and serves as a resource and guide to participants as they make their way through the program.As a psychotherapist, Dr. Prescott provides in-depth psychological treatment for adults utilizing a broadly psychodynamic perspective, carefully informed by cognitive-analytic and cognitive-behavioral methods. A gifted therapist and compassionate presence, Dr. Prescott seeks to work with each patient from where they truly are in life, no matter how difficult. He specializes in the treatment of dissociative and trauma-related disorders. He has worked with combat veterans, survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and victims of violent crime, among others. He is also well-versed in most of the world’s major cultural and religious traditions — both Eastern and Western — and adept at bridging cultural and intellectual divides.
