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I am a highly experienced and warm mental health professional with a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University. I received additional training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, AHRC, Lenox Hill Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. I received my post-doctoral training at Washington Square Institute. And I taught undergraduate psychology courses for more than a decade at LIU, St. Joseph's College and The School Of Visual Arts. I enjoy being both a professor and a mental health practitioner.

I'm a dedicated psychotherapist with an extensive and diverse background, spanning private practice, schools, college clinics, foster care, and hospitals, including acute care. With a passion for treating individuals of all ages, I specialize in harnessing the power of evidence-based therapies to create long-lasting positive change, focusing on the core of issues, rather than surface change. I take pride in fostering a safe, warm, and compassionate environment that embraces the unique perspectives of clients from diverse backgrounds. Even the most resistant patients find themselves engaged in the therapeutic process under my care.

As a bilingual (Spanish) psychologist, I have supported adults, adolescents, and children from diverse backgrounds navigate challenges related to anxiety, depression, and learning difficulties. Throughout my experience in clinical and school settings, I have worked with clients to gain insight into their presenting concerns while also developing skills for long-term resilience. Poseo la habilidad de brindar terapia en español, para ayudarte ha desarrollar la aceptación, adaptación, y resiliencia.

Welcome! I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist practicing in New York, NY. I have expertise in providing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT, DBT, ACT) for adolescents and adults and with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and OCD. My clients often wish to explore relationship challenges, worry thoughts, and difficulty making desired changes. Sessions often involve recognizing and responding to ineffective thought patterns, understanding self-worth, skillfully navigating problems, building executive functioning skills, and coping with distress.

Dr. Dobbs is an accomplished clinical psychologist with over fifteen years of experience between teaching and clinical work. She specializes in working with children, teens, and adults and has worked across various settings, including private practice, school, residential, and community mental health. Her therapeutic approach is rooted in the gold standard of treatment, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which provides faster, more effective results. With children and teens, she goes beyond the traditional confines of therapy by harnessing their natural creativity, integrating art, music, games, journaling, and other creative outlets.

I welcome everyone from all walks of life. My goal is to gain an in-depth knowledge of your specific needs using our talk space to deepen self-awareness, using psycho-education, and empathically nurture growth by providing the tools needed to achieve goals. The initial session will focus on completing a comprehensive assessment. I have worked with families, children, adolescents, and adults. I will guide, support, mentor, and collaborate with you on establishing goals to best meet your needs.

I am a clinical psychologist providing therapy and assessment services in Scarsdale and Greenwich. I treat various conditions, such as depression, anxiety, behavioral problems, social anxiety, and school/work issues. I also focus on life transitions, whether that be a recent move, transition from college, changes in family dynamics, or changes in significant relationships. Furthermore, I have extensive experience in conducting psychological assessments. Therapeutically, I focus on developing teens and adults, where as I provide assessments for all ages.

Therapy is your time, a comfortable, protected space set aside for you to slow down and focus on the things in your life that deserve your attention. My role as a therapist is to help clients identify goals and build positive change in their lives with compassion and understanding. Whether you want to improve the ways in which you manage the stress in your life or desire a deeper understanding of difficult emotions, I offer treatment for a variety of concerns relating to anxiety, depression, relationships, identity, life transitions, bicultural issues, race, sexuality, addictions, multicultural family issues, work-stress, learning disabilities and personality disorders.

Dr. LaBode-Richman is dually trained and specialized in psychotherapy treatment and neuropsychological assessment. She enjoys working with clients across the lifespan and is able to offer state-of-the-art services in both English and Spanish.

You can feel confident that whatever your issue is, we can talk about it and together we can figure out an approach to alleviate your suffering. Sometimes we need guidance while at other times we need someone to listen and hold space for us. It is possible that you are looking for a fresh take on your circumstances or have tried "everything" out there and are ready to give up. Do not be discouraged. We can figure out a way for you to heal.

I am a licensed clinical social worker, with over 35 years of experience. I have a variety of clinical interests and areas of specialization, including the treatment of trauma and PTSD; couples therapy with heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples; analytic work "launching" young adults; Ericksonian hypnosis; EMDR;Sensorimotor Psychotherapy; adolescent and family therapy; and in-depth analytic work with individuals who are feeling stuck in repetitive patterns or dynamics left over from childhood, and want to change. I have led ongoing therapy groups for women with interpersonal trauma histories for over 30 years.

Footprints was started by a therapist who realized that often times the services provided to low socio-economic communities is lacking quality care. We noticed these communities were confronted with long wait times, disrespectful admins, and subpar treatment. The one and only purpose was to exploit the community for profit without providing the level of care deserved. Feel Better Therapy began from the inspiration to provide quality mental health care to the poorest of communities and treating the clients of this community the same way a rich patient would be treated in a clinic treating affluent clients.

I believe that what you are experiencing is real, and even more so, you deserve the opportunity to find purpose and joy in each day. My goal for our work together is to create a space in which you feel safe and supported to share your own unique story. Over time, and through the relationship that we form, we will begin to foster psychological change through the means of building awareness and understanding of how your past experiences influence your current expectations, perceptions and behaviors.

I approach each client as an individual with their own unique history and experiences and draw from multiple schools of thought to create a treatment plan that matches the client and their goals. I recognize no two people are alike and each client brings their own experiences, feelings and life history to the sessions.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist with an extensive background in research, clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, my clinical approach is informed by empirically validated treatments and techniques, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Like using psychotherapy outcome research to inform my clinical work, I employ a methodological approach to disentangling the various biological, social, and environmental factors that may be contributing to your current and past difficulties. My approach is intensely collaborative and transparent in nature.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I use various styles of therapy to instill the most effective outcome for my patients. I have experience with children, families, and adults. My experience entails working with patients with anxiety, family issues, trauma, social issues, depression and life changing events. Oftentimes, it can be challenging to identify ways to overcome life's obstacles when you are currently experiencing them. With the help of an experienced Social Worker, you can begin to process these obstacles from a holistic approach and create realistic and attainable goals that would help you enhance your life.

My extensive experience and attuned, empathetic, approach helps guide our conversation, and inquiry to quickly identify and clarify issues that cause stress, vague feelings of unease, work and relational issues. Our first consultation should help you both put in words, and define a strategy that may begin to clarify and solve long standing problems. I have experience working with problems that overlap with high stress work environments, coaching and interpersonal work issues. My 40 year experience as a couple therapist allows me to quickly define the relationship conflict and facilitate the dialogue between the partners.

In my experience, people who come to see me want help having more satisfying relationships and more fulfilling lives. They often want to know themselves better, or to get relief from troubling conditions such as depression and anxiety. I create a safe and empathic environment in which to address these concerns.

"What we experience is not external reality but our interaction with it." Neils Bohr, Physicist.