Location
Leora Mandel currently has a waitlist for new clients.
About
I am a NYC based psychotherapist who specializes in helping teens and adults who struggle with anxiety, depression, ADHD, complex trauma, attachment, sleep, identity, artistic/career blocks, and life transitions. I have extensive experience working with survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault, within LGBTQ+ and kink communities, and with neurodiverse clients. I adapt evidence-based therapy techniques for individual needs, including DBT mindfulness and distress tolerance skills, ACT, psychoanalysis, and arts therapies. I strive to create a compassionate environment rooted in trust, warmth, and partnership.
It is important to me that you feel understood. I believe there are reasons for every decision we make—you revisit maladaptive coping mechanisms (ie: returning to exes, avoiding tasks) because they work at providing temporary relief. Even in your darkest moments you love yourself enough to want to stop yourself from experiencing intolerable pain.
Diagnoses isn’t a necessary component of every treatment, but many of the clients I work with find that it can be an opportunity for relief, healing, community, and validation. I am your advocate wherever possible - I have written supportive documents for clients applying for gender affirming surgeries, asylum in the US, and work/school accommodations.
Call or Email Leora Mandel for a free 15 minute consultation now - (347) 572-7418
Finances
- Session Fee: $175 per session
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Anthem
- Brighton Health
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Empire BlueCross BlueShield
- MagnaCare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum
- Oscar Health
- Oxford
- UMR
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- Out of Network
Verify your health insurance coverage when you arrange your first visit.
Qualifications
- License: New York / 110482
Location
Specialties
- Mood Disorders
- Trauma and PTSD
- ADHD
Issues
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Career Counseling
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Creative/Artistic Blocks
- Depression
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Infidelity
- Life Transitions
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal Ideation
- Testing and Evaluation
- Transgender
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Personality Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Age
- Adults
- Teen
Communities
- Bisexual Allied
- Body Positivity
- Gay Allied
- HIV / AIDS Allied
- Immuno-disorders
- Intersex Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Queer Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Sex Worker Allied
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
- Transgender Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Expressive Arts
- Music Therapy
- Narrative
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Psychological Testing and Evaluation
- Schema Therapy
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
Last Modified: 1 Feb 2023
(347) 572-7418