Steven S. Rolfe, M.D.

Steven S. Rolfe M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with more than 25 years experience in the assessment and counseling of executives and their families. Dr. Rolfe’s clientele represent a wide range of fields including entertainment, law, finance, medicine, and management. His training in child psychiatry and his experience in family therapy led him to pursue his interest in consulting to family businesses, small group partnerships, and senior corporate business leaders.

Dr. Rolfe has extensive administrative experience working in a wide range of medical settings including for-profit and not-for-profit institutions. His administrative and leadership experience include developing and directing numerous new clinical programs and clinical teams in a wide variety of hospital settings. His consultation projects in health related fields have included consultation to health care companies around issues of morale, “burnout”, and performance improvement.

He is former Medical Director of the Pre-teen Program at Horsham Clinic in Ambler, PA, a hospital owned by Universal Health Services. He is former Medical Director of the Children’s Program at Friend’s Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa., and former Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Services, BrookGlen Hospital in Ft. Washington, PA.

Dr. Rolfe is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he majored in Comparative Literature. He received his M.D. at Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed his Adult Psychiatry training at Tufts University Affiliated Hospitals, and his Child Psychiatry Fellowship at McLean Hospital in Boston. He has been Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and was Clinical Assistant Professor at Temple University School of Medicine. He completed his psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia where he is currently a faculty member.

He is former Director of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia’s Adult Psychotherapy Program, former Director of its Division of Consultation and Evaluation Services and was previously a member of its Board of Directors. He is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and has been a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Corporate and Organizational Consultation since its inception.

Dr. Rolfe is a consultant with Family Solutions Group, a Philadelphia based interdisciplinary firm providing consulting and advisory services to high net worth families, single and multi family offices, family businesses, and their advisors. He is an affiliate consultant with Touchstone Partnership, Ltd., a strategic management-consulting firm based in Downingtown, Pa. He is a member of the Family Firm Institute and currently enrolled in their two-year certificate program in Family Business Advising. He has particular interest in helping the family business owner plan for succession.