My Story
I’m Stephen L. Day, and I think of myself as a very lucky man. I’ve been able to spend nearly forty years doing work that I love; helping people to lead richer, fuller lives, and find or keep lasting love. For most of that time, I worked as a psychotherapist, helping people in the arts. The people I’ve worked with have included film and theater actors, acting coaches, novelists, newspaper writers, cartoonists, composers, and musicians. In fact, I’ve served as a referral therapist for the Manhattan School of Music.
I feel a special connection to people in the arts as an amateur pianist and author of several unpublished novels, while my connection to actors and acting goes back to the years between undergraduate and graduate school, when I worked as a production assistant on movies with directors like Brian DePalma, as well as on commercials and industrials.
My focus on relationships began when my future wife and I took an apartment together, after the completion of my Yale University graduate work. Although neither one of us was a stranger to live-in relationships (in fact, she had been married before), we found ourselves having problems. Since my wife was also a psychotherapist, we began reading and applying everything we could find about couples and relationship therapy. And thankfully, we made it work. We soon began taking what we had learned, and using it with our clients.
We found that the same techniques that succeeded for us worked wonders for our clients. I began increasingly working with couples and individual clients whose relationships were troubled. I also began discovering that many of my single clients, both straight and gay, were entering into enduring, long-term relationships, sometimes returning for help when difficulties arose with their partners.
For some time, I was interested in life coaching as a different approach with new techniques for working with people who were not seeking therapy but wanted to improve their lives. I returned to school to take a certificate in life coaching, choosing one of the most highly rated programs in the country. Some of what they taught merely echoed my existing training, but much of it was new and exciting. By combining my knowledge of nearly forty years of working with clients with these new techniques, I realized that I had developed a unique and powerful approach to helping people change their lives, one which I continue to use and refine as a relationship coach for actors.
Education
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B.A. Cum Laude, University of Pittsburgh
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M. Phil Yale University
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Post Graduate training: Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and the American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
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Certified Professional Coach, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching
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