Zachary (Zac) Kramer, PsyD
Dr. Zac Kramer is a postdoctoral fellow at Interactive Discovery. He completed his doctoral training in Clinical Psychology at Pacific University’s School of Graduate Psychology and his pre-doctoral internship at North Central Bronx Hospital, where he received advanced training in health psychology and integrated care for patients experiencing severe mental illnesses. He has also trained in inpatient substance use rehabilitation facilities, community mental health clinics, and college counseling centers, where he provided individual psychotherapy, group therapy, and neuropsychological testing to clients across a wide range of backgrounds and clinical presentations.
Dr. Kramer works with children, teens, and adults and brings years of experience working with trauma, depression, anxiety, substance use, attachment wounds, interpersonal difficulties, and challenges related to identity and life direction. While he works with clients of all genders, he has a particular passion for working with boys, men, and masculinity—including the ways in which gender expectations and hypermasculinity can silently shape a person’s emotional life, relationships, and sense of self. His doctoral research explored the negative impact of hypermasculinity on men’s mental health and how mindfulness can help men cultivate greater authenticity and emotional freedom.
Dr. Kramer’s therapeutic approach is grounded in psychodynamic and relational frameworks and is complemented by training in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and other mindfulness-based modalities. His integrative style supports clients in developing lasting self-insight, overcoming limiting self-narratives, and shifting longstanding interpersonal patterns. Mindfulness is not simply a clinical tool for Dr. Kramer—it is a lived practice. He has spent time living in Zen monasteries, and this commitment to contemplative practice has shaped the quality of presence he brings into the room. His mindfulness training, combined with his background in health psychology, informs a holistic, whole-person approach to care—one that honors the ways physical health, somatic experience, and emotional wellbeing are inseparable. Dr. Kramer is committed to providing care that is LGBTQ+-affirming, anti-racist, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive. He strives always to create space for clients to explore their identities with openness and without judgment.
At the heart of his work is the belief that learning to face our pain is ultimately more fulfilling than running from it—that healing begins when we become willing to turn toward what we have long pushed away.