Robert Schwam

Robert Schwam has been a well-known and respected psychotherapist who has been serving the Westchester County, New York, community for over 35 years. Mr. Schwam conducts individual, group, and family therapy sessions at his private practice, which he re-opened in 2006. With the divorce rate in America hovering just below 50%, Robert Schwam’s expertise in marriage and couples therapy, with a concentration on affairs, becomes valuable to many clients. His other areas of focus include the full spectrum of addictions, male issues, and the state of limbo between youth and adulthood that many of today’s young adults experience.

After starting his private practice in 1974, Robert Schwam founded and directed The Bridge Street Family Project in 2000 in Westchester County. In addition to operating the project, Robert carried a selective caseload of his own while he continued to oversee the numerous facets of the center. This project served as one of a limited number of private, multidisciplinary private group practices in the area. Mr. Schwam also served as the Clinical Director of two other treatment agencies before 1983 to 1985. He served as the administrative director at The Center for Family Learning, which included 200 patients, in Rye Brook, New York. Mr. Schwam was responsible for administrative functions and managed the staff. Robert Schwam has been assuming supervisory duties early in his career, starting in the mid-1970s.

Robert Schwam has successfully overseen the business side of his profession, relying on his academic credentials. His Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, from The City University of New York and New York University, respectively, were in Business Administration. After graduating from NYU in 1967, he decided to pursue a Master’s degree in Social Work from Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work. He graduated in 1974 and has been practicing psychotherapy ever since.

Starting in 1969, Robert Schwam has been on the forefront of progressive approaches for treating addiction. He also pioneered a family systems therapy approach that integrated 12-step self-help approaches in this methodology. Mr. Schwam received a certificate of advanced achievement for his work in this sector of family therapy.