With a certain very special brand of psychological-mindedness, she helps us face our own self-doubts and anxieties that challenge our opportunity to live full and connected lives. In an age of what feels like almost unprecedented loss and fear she gives us the capacity to look inside and face the most difficult part of our internal lives. She has often helped to center me in my child welfare work in New York City, where I try to keep families together - helping children who are dealing with trauma and loss. In these sensitive and difficult situations, implementing Freudina’s way of thinking allows for real and substantive change and awakens the potential for healing.​

Alison is a voice that can really make a difference. Instead of quick fix advice, she offers a new lens, so we can take a look at our own strengths, and the tricks our mind plays on us. In that way, we see the answers are within ourselves, and we can build a toolbox for the next time life throws a curve ball. Not only is she a psychoanalyst – the most complete psychotherapeutic training that exists – but she is trained and steeped in the interpersonal-relational school. Both that training and her personality allow her to sense what a person is seeking, what they are missing as well as their strengths, and what brings them to the moment they find themselves in currently. Dr. Feit meets the callers and readers where they are, but also meets our culture with a factor that is currently missing. ​

Alison Feit is an extraordinary psychoanalyst. She has a talent for understanding a situation and helpfully suggesting a new way to look at an old problem. She has an agile mind, a warm approach, and a keen intelligence.

I have known Dr. Alison Feit for over 25 years. She is a thoughtful, humane scholar and therapist who has been willing to tread where others have not and is rarely afraid to speak her mind. I have known her to go out of her way for people who were ignored by others and to devote herself to the welfare of people you might think had no claim on her. She is irreverent in all the right ways.