Home > Our Therapists > Milton Wilner

Milton Wilner, PhD

Milton Wilner earned his doctorate in clinical psychology at NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is a licensed NYS Psychologist.

His past teaching positions include:

• NYU Post Doctoral Program, (Clinical Associate Professor)
• Downstate Medical Center, (Clinical Assistant Professor)
• Past President, American Association for Partial Hospitalization.
• Past Chief Psychologist, South Beach Psychiatric Center.
• Past Assistant Director of Education and Training, South Beach Psychiatric Center.

Current focus:

• Life changes, including off-to-college, job changes, marriage difficulties and retirement.
• Hypnosis, primarily to help quit smoking.

Dr. Wilner has been in private practice of individual and group psychotherapy for over 40 years. He's had significant teaching and managerial positions during this time and has helped train many psychotherapists in psychology, psychiatry, social work and nursing. During this time he's worked on the transitional nature in human development and living. This includes the departure from home of the college student, the exploration of work possibilities, the trauma of loss of job, of divorce, of death in the family.

He has especially studied the problems of aging. Like other transitional aspects of lifetime, aging has the burden of recognizing and adjusting to both obvious and subtle changes. These include the slowing down of the older physical self and the diminishing physical strength; the psychological slowing and the subtle aphasias normal to the age; the loss of structure, expectations and demands that working jobs both place on us and support us. This is a special burden that retirement places on the aging individual. The world around the aging person changes severely with the death of loved ones – spouse and close partners and friends.

And always, there are the health problems that enhance the importance of medical caregivers.

Dr. Wilner accepts patients with Medicare and other insurance coverage, as well as self-payers.