Dr. Daniel Papapietro​

​Psychotherapy

Office Location

Farmington, CT 06032​

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Office Hours

By Appointment Only

Tuesdays & Wednesdays 

​​​​​SELF-PAY ONLY

(See Below)

Some insurance may provide

out of network reimbursement.
Fee Is $140 Per Session. 
 

Dr. Daniel J. Papapietro, PsyD

Clinical Psychologist

 Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy Supervision/Consultation

     Farmington, Ct     

860/916/2920

​ Dr. Papapietro  maintains a psychotherapy practice devoted exclusively to psychoanalytic/psychodynamic  psychotherapy.

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Dr. Papapietro is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 35 years of psychotherapy training and experience in outpatient and inpatient psychiatric settings, in private, 
public, state and VA hospitals.
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For more than 3 decades Dr. Papapietro has been teaching, training, and supervising psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers in the theory and practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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Dr. Papapietro holds a faculty appointment as 
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at  
 Yale Medical School and the Univ. of Connecticut School of Medicine.

 

​ Hundreds of current scientific studies support the effectiveness of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches. In fact, analysis of studies that gather evidence across multiple settings clearly demonstrate the clinical effectiveness of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Furthermore, countless studies confirm that psychodynamic approaches are often more effective in the long-run than short-term counseling and cognitive therapies that simply treat a symptom behaviorally or merely offer support or advice.

Large Numbers of Scientific Studies of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Prove It's Effectiveness  For The Following Psychological Issues:

•  Depression. Studies indicate that it can help people address, understand, and change recurring interpersonal patterns that play a significant part in their depression.
• Anxieties. Numerous studies have concluded that psychoanalytic therapy often provides relief from social anxiety, social phobia, and panic disorder by understanding that symptoms are often metaphors for unconscious psychological issues.
  
• Chronic Pain/Somatization disorder, When a person has unexplained chronic pain with no clear physical cause, resulting in a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as pain, weakness, lethargy, physical exhaustion, or shortness of breath to a level that results in major emotional distress and/or significant social and interpersonal problems.
  
• Personality disorders. Studies have found psychotherapy to be effective for many personality styles in which unstable moods, impulsivity, poor social/interpersonal and work relationships are the primary clinical presentation.
  
• Anger Unrealistic entitlement and need to control others that leads to anger, poor frustration tolerance and impulsivity can often be understood and managed through therapy.
  
• Relationship problems. Recurring  patterns of relationship and interpersonal conflicts with family, friends, coworkers, and significant others often respond well to this type of therapy.
• Trauma. Physical or emotional traumas or acute traumatic experiences, whether in childhood or later in life, can condition individuals to high levels of anxiety and stress that result in depression, insomnia, or anger can be helped and managed in therapy.
  
• Substance Abuse. Addictions often begin as efforts to self-medicate against powerful and frightening unconscious emotions that often arise from a variety of abandonment or traumatic issues from childhood. Psychodynamic psychotherapy can help you explore these emotions, understand their source in childhood, free you from the control those issues have over you, and reduce the chaos and conflicts that substance use creates in your life.  Psychodynamic psychotherapy along with ones active participation in 12-Step recovery programs can be very effective managing addictions

Why So Many Psychotherapists Don't Accept Or Work With Insurance Companies: 

A fundamental principal of psychotherapy is the need for confidentiality. Because psychodynamic psychotherapy encourages the patient to speak as freely as possible about deeply personal material, without censoring thoughts or emotions, the process NEEDS to be private and totally confidential so that the patient knows that whatever they reveal in therapy is protected to fullest extent allowed by law. Federal HIPPA laws are very specific about absolute protection of psychotherapy information. Except for very few legal situations, no one has a right to your personal psychotherapy information, unless you consent to release that information to your insurance company.

But when you use your insurance, you waive your rights to privacy and confidentiality. In order to consider paying your therapy bill the insurance company can demand reports from your therapist that could reveal much of your confidential information. If they agree to pay for therapy they can then make decisions about how long you can be in therapy; they can limit the number of sessions; and in some cases they may decide what kind of treatment the individual should receive. Such decisions are always about cost containment for the insurance company and they are never about your best clinical interests. 

However, some health insurance plans may reimburse you  for somewhere around 50-80% of the cost of out-of-network services, assuming you’ve met your deductible.  Dr. Papapietro can provide you a statement showing services you paid for, with the necessary diagnostic codes included, that you can submit to your insurance company. This is entirely between you and your insurance provider, and Dr. Papapietro will not provide any additional information to the insurance company or agree to complete any insurance related forms.

Psychotherapy may be expensive if you have to pay without insurance.

But having control over your treatment and your personal information is priceless. 

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