Ryan M. Kull PhD

Dr. Kull has been a psychotherapist in New York City for over twenty-five years. He studied at Columbia and New York Universities, and received psychoanalytic training at NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the William Alanson White Institute.

Ryan’s work focuses on how early relational failures disrupt one's capacity to create meaning, live creatively, and feel a sense of cohesion—and how these experiences can be witnessed and repaired. He sees individuals, couples, and groups in his private practice (currently on a virtual basis).

Alongside Dr. Kull’s clinical practice, he has worked extensively as an advocate, educator, and researcher. He served as Co-Director of the Gay Health Advocacy Project at Columbia University, and later served as a Senior Researcher at GLSEN, working on national studies concerning the school experiences of LGBTQ+ youth. He has taught psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work. In 2014 he founded Kip Therapy, which over the next decade became a significant center for high-quality mental health care and professional training in New York City—serving thousands of patients, providing rigorous supervision and education, and helping launch the careers of many early-career clinicians who now practice throughout the region. He currently serves as Director and Chief Supervisor at Dr. Kull & Associates.

Dr. Kull’s practice reflects a contemporary psychoanalytic and relational perspective, with a particular focus on the lives of gay and queer men. His current research, funded in part by the Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, uses extended personal narratives from a cohort of adult gay men to document and understand their stories of despair. Interweaving personal narrative with the rich lives of his subjects, the study examines breakdown, suicidality, mourning, and the seemingly irreconcilable meeting points between one’s intrapsychic life and the social and cultural realities.