Steve Hauptman

Steve Hauptman is a Gestalt-trained, Buddhist-flavored therapist who has practiced on Long Island for twenty years. He graduated from Adelphi University’s School of Social Work, trained at the Gestalt Center of Long Island, and specializes in a unique control-centered approach that combines elements of psychodynamic, Gestalt, cognitive-behavioral and family systems theory in the treatment of anxiety, depression, addictions, codependency and relationship problems. A leader of Interactive Therapy groups, he is also a cartoonist and creator of the blogs Monkeytraps: A blog about control, Monkey House, a forum for discussing control issues, and Bert’s Therapy: Adventures of an Inner Monkey.

He is currently at work on the six-book Monkeytraps series, which will include Monkeytraps: Why Everybody Tries to Control Everything and How We Can Stop (Lioncrest 2015), Monkeytraps in Daily Life (due 2016), Monkeytraps for Adult Children, Monkeytraps for Parents, Monkeytraps for Couples, and Monkeytraps for Therapists.