Amy Begel is a family therapist who received her family therapy training in the 1980’s with one of the creators of family therapy, Dr. Salvador Minuchin. Since then, she has maintained a busy private practice in New York City and New Jersey. Until 2011 Amy was Senior Faculty at The Minuchin Center for the Family where she conducted family therapy training nationally and internationally. In addition to her clinical practice in family therapy, Amy is on the teaching faculty of the Department of Family Practice, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Amy is the author of the book Diagnosis Human, published in 2024. She has also authored numerous professional articles and posts, including for the Psychotherapy Networker, the popular medical blog KevinMD, and HuffPost. She writes the blog Most Human.
She lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.