Dr. Tyson Furr
The son of an Experimental and School Psychologist, Dr. Furr grew up in an environment that encouraged curiosity about and the application of knowledge and the humanities to help individuals attain their goals in life. Dr. Furr has worked in a diverse set of clinical settings from virtually all parts of society and has taught classes in Mindfulness, Relationships and Social Psychology.
Dr. Furr has helped men and women of all sexual orientations with eating disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, psychotic disorders, marital difficulties and sexual trauma. Dr. Furr has also helped combat veterans overcome Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and remains committed to helping veterans recover and adjust to life after military service.
Dr. Furr graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he participated in conducting research in Social Psychology and studied under the noted Social Psychologist Elliot Aronson. There, Dr. Furr learned the factors of attraction in relationships, the danger of distorted self-justifying when one does not live according to one's values, the powerful influence of environment on individuals behavior, and the importance of awareness of one's bias in social situations.
Later, while studying at New York University's Master's of Arts program, Dr. Furr was actively involved in research on psychotherapy. As a doctoral student, Dr. Furr worked at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan in the extensive Brief Psychotherapy Project. He later received his doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology at Long Island University. Dr. Furr conducted his own original research on Anxiety Disorders, Mindfulness, and the repair process between patient and client in psychotherapy. Dr. Furr also taught Social Psychology as a teaching fellow at Long Island University in Brooklyn.
Dr. Furr has compassionately worked with individuals of virtually every background and in in-patient psychiatric units, health and HIV clinics, private educational institutions, city hospitals and college counseling clinics. Dr. Furr worked for Prep for Prep, a not-for-profit organization that identifies minority students from New York City public schools provides them with training and scholarships at the nations best prep schools. The scope of Dr. Furr's assessment experience has been with thousands of individuals from ages 3 to 106 years old, performing psychological, neuropsychological and personality assessments. Dr. Furr has conducted individual, couples and group therapy at Beth Israel Medical Center, Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and The Department of Veterans Affairs.
Completing his Doctoral internship at the Brooklyn Veterans Hospital, Dr. Furr became a staff psychologist for the federal government working at veteran's hospitals in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. There Dr. Furr helped treated hundreds of veterans with emotional difficulties, addiction, PTSD, and substance abuse; Dr.Furr has helped scores of homeless veterans find housing. In addition, Dr. Furr has helped obtain deserved benefits and pensions for hundreds of soldiers and veterans from the current conflicts to those who served at the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
Dr. Furr has also supervised doctoral students and participated on the training committee for the Internship program for the Federal government. Currently, Dr. Furr offers supervision at the doctoral and post-doctoral level as director of clinical services at Herald Square Psychology where the sum of his experience is delivered in a compassionate, individualized treatment program for adult clients.
Dr. Furr has helped men and women of all sexual orientations with eating disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, psychotic disorders, marital difficulties and sexual trauma. Dr. Furr has also helped combat veterans overcome Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and remains committed to helping veterans recover and adjust to life after military service.
Dr. Furr graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he participated in conducting research in Social Psychology and studied under the noted Social Psychologist Elliot Aronson. There, Dr. Furr learned the factors of attraction in relationships, the danger of distorted self-justifying when one does not live according to one's values, the powerful influence of environment on individuals behavior, and the importance of awareness of one's bias in social situations.
Later, while studying at New York University's Master's of Arts program, Dr. Furr was actively involved in research on psychotherapy. As a doctoral student, Dr. Furr worked at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan in the extensive Brief Psychotherapy Project. He later received his doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology at Long Island University. Dr. Furr conducted his own original research on Anxiety Disorders, Mindfulness, and the repair process between patient and client in psychotherapy. Dr. Furr also taught Social Psychology as a teaching fellow at Long Island University in Brooklyn.
Dr. Furr has compassionately worked with individuals of virtually every background and in in-patient psychiatric units, health and HIV clinics, private educational institutions, city hospitals and college counseling clinics. Dr. Furr worked for Prep for Prep, a not-for-profit organization that identifies minority students from New York City public schools provides them with training and scholarships at the nations best prep schools. The scope of Dr. Furr's assessment experience has been with thousands of individuals from ages 3 to 106 years old, performing psychological, neuropsychological and personality assessments. Dr. Furr has conducted individual, couples and group therapy at Beth Israel Medical Center, Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and The Department of Veterans Affairs.
Completing his Doctoral internship at the Brooklyn Veterans Hospital, Dr. Furr became a staff psychologist for the federal government working at veteran's hospitals in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. There Dr. Furr helped treated hundreds of veterans with emotional difficulties, addiction, PTSD, and substance abuse; Dr.Furr has helped scores of homeless veterans find housing. In addition, Dr. Furr has helped obtain deserved benefits and pensions for hundreds of soldiers and veterans from the current conflicts to those who served at the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
Dr. Furr has also supervised doctoral students and participated on the training committee for the Internship program for the Federal government. Currently, Dr. Furr offers supervision at the doctoral and post-doctoral level as director of clinical services at Herald Square Psychology where the sum of his experience is delivered in a compassionate, individualized treatment program for adult clients.
Dr. Tyson's Vet Shelf
A Note From Dr. Furr:
"One of the proudest chapter's of my professional life is my work with veterans. During my years in the VA system, I worked with many homeless veterans who struggled with substance abuse or severe mental illness. Through our advocacy efforts, many of them were able to find supportive housing services, and access financial resources there were not informed of.
I did everything I could to make sure they received their benefits and a fiduciary to help remain housed and under care for the rest of their lives. Another fortunate benefit of my role as a psychologist, serving veterans, was my ability to reach out to dozens of judges, defense attorneys, police officers, parole officers, and probation officers and even congressman to give veterans the option of treatment to prosecution and incarceration.
My work with veterans getting compensation and pensions, in pain clinics, cancer clinics, neuropsychological examinations for dementia and traumatic brain injury (TBI), liver clinics (for cure of Hepatitis C and liver transplant) assessments, are all examples of ways I have committed to serving the veteran community in the past and future."
"One of the proudest chapter's of my professional life is my work with veterans. During my years in the VA system, I worked with many homeless veterans who struggled with substance abuse or severe mental illness. Through our advocacy efforts, many of them were able to find supportive housing services, and access financial resources there were not informed of.
I did everything I could to make sure they received their benefits and a fiduciary to help remain housed and under care for the rest of their lives. Another fortunate benefit of my role as a psychologist, serving veterans, was my ability to reach out to dozens of judges, defense attorneys, police officers, parole officers, and probation officers and even congressman to give veterans the option of treatment to prosecution and incarceration.
My work with veterans getting compensation and pensions, in pain clinics, cancer clinics, neuropsychological examinations for dementia and traumatic brain injury (TBI), liver clinics (for cure of Hepatitis C and liver transplant) assessments, are all examples of ways I have committed to serving the veteran community in the past and future."