Aaron Metrikin

Aaron Metrikin

Aaron Metrikin, MD is a board-certified General Psychiatrist (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) and Addiction Specialist (American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry). Licensed in New York State, he has been practicing psychiatry and addiction medicine in New York City for more than 27 years.

Dr. Metrikin matriculated from King David High School in 1983 and earned his medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School (1990) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was awarded a research fellowship with the South African Medical Research Council in Cape Town, where he studied the epidemiology of the emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic.

After immigrating to the United States in 1993, he completed his Psychiatry residency (1997) and Addiction Fellowship (1999) at NYU Langone School of Medicine. He later trained as a psychoanalyst, graduating from the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY), affiliated with NYU Langone, in 2007.

During his fellowship, Dr. Metrikin was appointed Medical Director of the Outpatient Chemical Dependency Program at Bellevue Hospital, where he established the hospital’s first buprenorphine treatment program for opioid use disorder. In 2001, he became Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Lenox Hill Hospital, providing psychiatric and addiction care to medical and surgical inpatients for more than eight years. More recently, he served as Medical Director of Ascendant New York, a private detoxification program in Manhattan (2018–2019).

For over 25 years, Dr. Metrikin has maintained a thriving private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His clinical approach integrates the medical, psychological, and social dimensions of psychiatric illness and addiction. He has extensive experience treating patients with substance use disorders, anxiety, depression, and co-occurring medical conditions. Combining psychodynamic insight with practical medical expertise, he provides comprehensive individual, couple, and family assessments, psychotherapy, pharmacologic treatment, and interventions.

Dr. Metrikin currently holds an academic appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Langone School of Medicine, where he teaches medical students, residents, and fellows in the fields of addiction, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.