Meet our Team
Warden Prescott
PhD, LMSW
MY PRACTICE
I am a New York State psychotherapist with over ten years’ experience providing coaching, counseling, and psychological treatment to adults of all ages. I work with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, relationship conflicts, life transitions, mental illness, and existential concerns.
I also specialize in trauma—especially complex trauma and trauma-related disorders that can leave you feeling disconnected from yourself and others.
Before becoming a clinician, I was a professor of philosophy at a research university. My approach is thus shaped by a deep understanding of the world’s philosophical traditions, both Eastern and Western. I bring those lenses to my therapeutic work, along with a profound respect for human differences and our shared humanity.
If you’re considering therapy, I encourage you to take that first step and reach out today.
All races, genders, religions, and political affiliations are welcome!
THERAPY APPROACHES
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Existential-Humanistic Therapy
External Family Systems, Marital & Family Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Multicultural Counseling & Interfaith Dialogue
Philosophical Counseling & Socratic Dialogue
Psychoanalytic, Psychodynamic & Relational Therapy
SPECIFIC POPULATIONS SERVED
Transitional Adults (18–22), Adults (22–65), Elders (65+)
Couples, Families & Partners, LGBTQ+
Veterans, Military Personnel & their families
AREAS OF FOCUS
Abuse (emotional, physical, Religious & Spiritual abuse)
Anxiety Disorders, including Panic Disorder
Combat Trauma & Combat-related Stress
Depressive Disorders
Dissociative Disorders, including DID
Existential Crisis
Gender Dysphoria & Gender-related Issues
Grief & Loss
Life Transitions & Adjustment Difficulties
Moral Injury
Psychosis
Trauma & Stressor-related Disorders
In-network with Aetna, otherwise Out of Network.
Superbills can be provided for out of network reimbursements, as well as sliding scale rates on a case by case basis.
Warden Prescott is an amazing counselor who has helped me through a great deal of personal issues. He took the time to understand how I worked, was patient with me when I resisted and earned my trust. I would recommend him to anyone who needs help. His knowledge and compassion are unparalleled.
– MG
Dr. Warden was very all ears open. He was able to communicate with me through some of the problems I’ve been going on in my life and just made me feel at ease and comfortable. He was very interested to know what’s going on and what are my triggers. I needed to hear certain things from someone who wasn’t close to me. Overall, my first experience in therapy was soothing and straight forward.
– JO
Warden Prescott guided me through the most important healing process of my life. Through the course of our work together I felt genuinely listened to by Warden. I left every session with the sense that Warden was totally engaged and attentive to my thought process. Warden addressed me with compassion and respect but also set expectations providing a ground-floor from which our work would proceed. Our goal was not to dismiss or dissolve my pain but to recognize its character and trigger. This put my pain in a place where I knew its scope and limit, where and how I came into contact with it. By Warden's guidance I arrived at questions I did not know I had. These questions turned out to be integral in setting the conditions for a real healing process to begin. The most significant of many outcomes of our work together was that it enabled me to see myself from a lost perspective; a view from which I could genuinely empathize and feel kindness towards myself.
– NS
EDUCATION
MSW: Hunter College, Silberman School of Social Work, Clinical Social Work, 2023
PhD: Syracuse University, Philosophy, 2012
Dissertation: On Pessimism: A Study in Normative Psychology, Director: Michael A. G. Stocker PhD
BA: Pacific Lutheran University, Philosophy, Comparative Religion, 1999
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Psychotherapist, Embrace Equanimity PLLC, 2025-present
Psychotherapist, Principium Psychiatry PLLC, 2023-2025
Intern, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, 2022-2023
Intern, Creative Masculinity, 2021-2022
Philosophical Counselor, private practice, 2014-2021
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
“The Secular Problem of Evil: An Essay in Analytic Existentialism.” Religious Studies, Vol. 57/1 (2021), pp. 101-119.
“Traumatic Realism.” Philosophical Engagements with Trauma, UNC Asheville (2019).
“Unthinkable ≠ Unknowable: On Charlotte Delbo’s ‘Il Faut Donner à Voir.’” The Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 48/3 (2014), pp. 457-468.
“What Pessimism Is.” Journal of Philosophical Research, Vol. 37 (2012), pp. 337-356.
“Pessimism, Acedia, Depression.” The Future of Psychiatric Nosology, Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Honolulu HI (2011).
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Fellow, Psychoanalytic Association of New York, NYU School of Medicine, 2024-2025
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy, Syracuse University, 2008-2021
Voluntary Faculty, Bioethics and Humanities, Upstate Medical University, 2010-2021
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Philosophical Association
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP)
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD)