Whether you are starting therapy for the first time or making a return, finding the right therapist is so important. I have many years of experience in helping individuals and families who are feeling overwhelmed or going through a difficult time. I believe my work is to help you figure out how your behavior connects to your values and beliefs. We work on changing or eliminating beliefs that no longer serve you. I love what I do and know that the service I provide can help you work through challenging life experiences to find stability, happiness, and growth.

I work primarily with individual adults and adult couples and adolescents. I have great success helping couple navigate and healthy boundaries in a relationships and to understand operationally what respect actually entails. Issues I'm best suited to treat are depression and other mood disorders, relationships of all kinds, substance abuse, addiction and recovery. I have experience and training with human sexuality and sexual identity, I'm trained as a family therapist and work with children primarily by teaching parents how to establish and maintain boundaries. Additionally, I have a background with chronic mental illness, psychopharmacology and autism.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with postgraduate training who has been in private practice in NYC and Westchester for 22 years. I work with adults, individuals and couples, and I specialize in the treatment of anxiety, depression and relationship issues. My orientation is psychodynamic but I utilize an eclectic approach and various treatment modalities, depending on the personality of the individual and the issues presented. Whether you are interested in short term focused therapy or a more comprehensive exploratory therapy, I will use my expertise to help you reach your therapeutic goals at a pace that is comfortable for you.

My goal is to help individuals and families become more attuned with themselves and others, in the service of increasing personal and interpersonal satisfaction and getting one's needs met more effectively. Many of my clients struggle with anxiety, depression, issues in relationships, trouble working through life transitions, and difficulty feeling in control of their emotions. I also specialize in working with parents to foster healthy and respectful relationships with their children and develop effective parenting skills related to communication, boundaries, discipline, and helping their children to manage their big emotions.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist in New York City and Westchester. I focus on women's health, including the transition to parenthood, as well as extensive work with children and families. I served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine, Outpatient Psychiatry Multi-Cultural Coordinator and Supervising Psychologist, and Clinical Director of the Center for Trauma and Resilience at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. I believe in supporting every member of the family system as they navigate life stressors and adjustment issues to promote resilience in the face of adversity.

For more than 20 years, my primary focus has been to provide my patients with the highest quality of counseling and psychotherapy. If you are feeling stuck, held back or burdened, please call me. I will help you to understand your feelings, your thoughts... your life. I believe that each person's strength resides in their uniqueness and individuality. You have the potential to transform your life, to achieve greater inner peace, and to feel closer to other people.

Finding a therapist who can really listen and then offer solutions can be a challenging task. As a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of counseling experience, I am dedicated to counseling and assisting teenage and adult patients. I work with individuals, couples, as well as families. My main areas of expertise are depression, anxiety, women's issues such as infertility, postpartum depression, relationship issues, divorce and women in the workplace concerns. My goal is to work with you to find solutions to the issues that are difficult to cope with. Together, we will develop helpful strategies to face life's challenges.

Over the past twenty years, I have been helping adults, teens and couples navigate a number of life's challenges including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties and other major life transitions. Building trusting, honest, direct and empathic relationships with my clients is most important to me and is what I believe makes therapy successful. People seek therapy when they are struggling with something that is not working in their lives or they are dealing with painful emotions. Through a mutually respectful, collaborative process I help my clients develop new coping strategies and skills to make the changes they are looking for in their lives.

I am experienced in helping clients recapture the person they previously were. Many clients say to me, "I just want to go back to being the person I used to be", and that's exactly what we focus on. Clients also often say to me, "I just don't know what to do or what I want", and we work together until we figure out how to alleviate their confusion. We achieve this in various ways, most often through exploration of the presenting issues, examination of past relationships and significant experiences as well as decision-making and behavioral patterns.

Are you feeling depressed, anxious, frustrated, or stuck in any one area of your life? I can help you become more attuned to your personal strengths which can help create positive change in your relationships, work, and overall well being. My work with children involves empowering you as parent to effectively manage your child's behavior and to advocate for their needs at school.

In my work with individuals and couples we identify debilitating conflicts and relational issues. Together, we look at how these play themselves out in present work and life, and look at their sometimes-painful antecedents. By exploring thoughts, feelings, dreams, fantasies, actions and reactions we arrive at a deeper understanding of fears, and work to see old truths in a new way, thus enabling new choices for action.

Are you overwhelmed or unhappy at home, at work or school? Conflicted or stressed about a major life change? Are you entangled in a recurring conflict with your partner, child, family member or co-worker? Struggling with concerns over emotional eating or other compulsive behaviors? I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with 20 years of experience helping adults, couples, teens and children achieve greater confidence in themselves, security in their relationships and enhanced control over their lives. I work in an active and supportive manner and am continually inspired by seeing the dramatic changes people can make in their lives.

The one factor that contributes most to successful therapy is the relationship between the client and therapist. My commitment to you in this regard is absolute. Fostering a strong therapeutic relationship - based on mutual respect and trust - is an ongoing aspect of our work. I provide a safe and comfortable environment for this to occur. My style of interaction is active and responsive. I am direct, supportive, and compassionate. I listen well. My approach focuses on your concerns and my interventions are tailored to your specific circumstances. I suggest additional areas of focus as they arise. We can also focus on decision-making / problem-solving.

The style used is open, relational and collaborative. An environment that is safe and non-judgemental, where a person can develop a sense of trust and well-being is priority and of utmost importance. Together, we take a deeply personal journey, exploring possibilities and facing what has been difficult. The goal is to help you heal and guide you toward increased self knowledge and emotional comfort.

My practice focuses on the problems of adults/adolescents through family/couples/individual work. I work with my clients to identify problems, and address barriers to change, when change is possible. At times, therapy is a process in which we can learn to cope better with stressors that cannot be changed. I strive to maintain a non-judgmental, empathic atmosphere, and the most important measure of success is when my client feels helped.

From my training and over twenty five years experience in practice, I have developed a non-judgmental, collaborative, and holistic approach to help people explore their problems in living. I work with all ages from a developmental perspective which I find invaluable. I love seeing children because of their innate desire to grow. Tapping into the teen's natural thrust towards independence propels the work forward as I stay in tune with adolescent goals. With adults, I'm mindful of a person's history, but stay in the present using the therapeutic relationship to heal the past and expand awareness.

I work with adults and couples who need solutions for personal, interpersonal or situational issues. Problems in one's life often appear as depression or anxiety, a seemingly unresolvable situation, or conflicts with a spouse, a child, extended family, friend, co-worker or employer. Together, you and I as collaborators, will seek to understand the causes and find solutions. For nearly 40 years, I've been a licensed psychologist, practicing psychotherapist, college professor, and author, and talked to many clients about their lives, thoughts, and experiences - what's been done to them, what they have done, and how they have survived.

I'm a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in working with adolescents, adults, and couples in southern Westchester. I work with each client and/or couple to develop healthy goals to support positive change, and to find a new, and more effective, way of looking at themselves and their relationships. To reach that end, I utilize an integrated approach of insight oriented psychotherapy with evidence-based practices including mindfulness, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and emotion focused therapy (EFT).

I’m a licensed and board certified psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of addiction and trauma. Much of my work has included working with adolescents, adults and families who are challenged by anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. In addition, I have experience working with the LGTBQ community, conflict resolution, and eating disorders. Believing you are the expert in your life my hope is to act as a beacon of light on a path that sometimes goes dark. As a Credentialed Alcohol Substance Abuse Counselor(CASAC), I can help you and/or your loved ones work towards recovery and healing.

Kristen Scarlett is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with practices in Westchester and Manhattan. She co-founded Octave and is now the Director of the Bryant Park office. Octave is a modern mental health practice supporting all aspects of emotional wellbeing. Before Octave she worked to established mental health services at One Medical and Atlantic Health System. She integrates wellness techniques and research based CBT to help patients manage various issues including depression, anxiety, insomnia, OCD, life transitions and relationships.