Dr. Jeffrey Zimmerman is a licensed psychologist and has been in private practice since 1981. In addition to a general office practice, Dr. Zimmerman specializes in the treatment of anxiety, depression, and conflict around divorce. He also frequently consults to organizations on issues associated with change, leadership and motivation, conflict reduction, and stress and anger management. He coaches managers and employees who are experiencing work-related difficulties or personal problems which influence job performance. He runs management retreats and varied staff-development workshops and seminars. He also is a frequent speaker at professional meetings and has trained many other clinicians in some of the conflict resolution and co-parenting training strategies he uses. Dr. Zimmerman has also co-authored two books about reducing the devastating impact of divorce on children and was co-founder and managing partner of Beacon Behavioral Services and the P.E.A.C.E. Program (Parents Equally Allied to Co-Parent Effectively) before returning to independent practice in 2007.
Dr. Zimmerman received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Mississippi (1980). He interned at the West Virginia University Medical Center, Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry (1979-1980). He has also worked in a mental health center and as a Chief Psychologist at Mount Sinai Hospital (Hartford, CT). Dr. Zimmerman is a Fellow and past President (1993-1994) of the Connecticut Psychological Association. In 2004 he received the award for Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology from the Connecticut Psychological Association. Dr. Zimmerman has also been trained as a Collaborative Divorce Mental Health Professional and as a mediator. He is licensed as a psychologist in Connecticut and New York and serves as a Special Master for the Connecticut Regional Family Trial Docket and the Early intervention Program. In 2009 Dr. Zimmerman received the award of ABPP (American Board of Professional Psychology) specialty board certification in Clinical Psychology. In 2010 he received the distinction of Fellow of Division 42 Psychologists in Independent Practice a Division of the American Psychological Association.
