Dr. Andrew Klafter is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and training/supervising analyst who provides treatment for adolescents and adults, and clinical consultation/supervision for psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists. He is frequently sought out for his expertise in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, treatment-resistant mood and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and diagnostic assessments for complex clinical problems. Dr. Klafter’s primary clinical location is in Cincinnati, OH, but he also treats patients and consults for clinicians in the greater metropolitan area of New York City and New Jersey. Recently elected as Director of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute (CPI), Dr. Klafter is an educational leader in advanced training programs for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and psychiatrists. He also serves as an expert witness, professional speaker, and consultant for organizations facing challenges with governance and leadership.

Dr. Klafter grew up in upstate New York. He attended college at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton and received his medical degree from the SUNY Buffalo College of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Klafter has also spent time overseas studying philosophy, religious law, and medical ethics. He completed his residency training in adult psychiatry in Philadelphia, PA, where he also served as Chief Resident. In 2000, Dr. Klafter was recruited to the University of Cincinnati to teach psychodynamic psychiatry to medical students and psychiatric residents. During his eight years as a full-time faculty member, he served as the Assistant Training Director in the Department of Psychiatry’s residency training program. He also served as Medical Director for the department’s outpatient multidisciplinary practice. Dr. Klafter completed his training as a psychoanalyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute (CPI) in 2011, and in 2012 joined the CPI faculty.

As a psychoanalyst, he is certified by the American Board of Psychoanalysis and was appointed as a Training and Supervising Analyst by the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute (CPI) and the American Association for Psychoanalytic Education. At CPI, he serves as the Track Leader for the Analytic Training Program’s technique curriculum, and for over a decade directed CPI’s training program in Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. As a therapist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Klafter specializes in intensive treatments for complex mental disorders, including narcissistic personality, borderline states, and complex developmental trauma (including dissociative disorders). As a general psychiatrist for adults and adolescents, he specializes in psychotherapy and medication treatments for treatment-resistant depression, bipolar disorder, severe anxiety disorders, and personality disorders. As a psychoanalytic and psychotherapy educator, Dr. Klafter is a six-time winner of the University of Cincinnati’s prestigious Golden Apple Award for his lectures and supervision in psychodynamic psychotherapy. He also received the 2024 American Psychoanalytic Association’s Esther Sabshin Teaching Award for his innovative approaches to teaching psychodynamic therapy. He has lectured and published on a variety of psychoanalytic topics nationally and internationally.

In 2025, Dr. Klafter was elected as Director of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Institute’s governance, educational training programs, programming, outreach, and committees. He has held leadership positions in other mental health organizations as well, including the NEFESH International Network of Orthodox Mental Health Professionals and the American Psychoanalytic Association. In addition to his work as a clinician for patients and supervisor for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, he is an experienced forensic consultant as an expert witness for litigation related to mental health malpractice, mental competency, personal injury, guardianship, child custody, and divorce.

In his personal life, Dr. Klafter is an accomplished musician and photographer. He is interested in cinema and popular music, and frequently assigns movies, television shows, and songs to his patients as a way of illustrating the universal nature of the psychological and interpersonal issues that they are dealing with in their lives and discussing in their psychotherapy or psychoanalytic treatments. Dr. Klafter has lectured nationally and internationally on the relevance of popular media to psychotherapy and mental health, and the impact of music, television, film, video games, and social media on the development of children and teens.