Yosef Bronsteyn

I'm first and foremost an aspiring clinical psychologist, currently a PhD student in Clinical Psychology. Second, I'm an extern psychotherapist, working with groups focused on substance use and emotional regulation. My dissertation explores personality measurement issues, particularly around moderation and substance use, questions about how we measure what matters.

My clinical orientation is existential-humanistic at the core, though lately I've been drawn to process-based approaches, coherence therapy, IFS, frameworks that validate the reason behind symptoms rather than pathologizing them. I believe people aren't broken. They're adapted. Therapy is understanding the logic of those adaptations.

Outside the therapy room, I build things, web apps, tools, interfaces. I think about product and UX, and how technology can serve human needs without exploiting them. I like tasteful design, philosophy, consciousness, and sitting with questions that don't resolve neatly.