Therapists in New York, NY

Therapy can be the turning point in your life—allowing you to confront your challenges and unconscious habits in order to more mindfully choose your behaviors, relationships, and life path. As a psychotherapist, I work to help my clients find fulfillment, serenity, confidence, and true happiness. I accompany individuals and couples through a process of examining who they are, how they came to be, and where they ultimately want to go. I collaborate with clients to heal issues such as anxiety, depression, addiction, eating disorders, and trauma.

Hi there! You should be proud of yourself for taking the first step of your mental health journey. Finding the right therapist takes courage, patience, and time. I am here to tell you that the wait is over! I am dedicated to helping you be your best and happiest self. In the therapy room, I will create an environment where you feel heard, supported, and comfortable. Building a strong therapeutic relationship and using it as a catalyst for change, healing, and processing is extremely important to me.

I am a clinical psychologist with an extensive research background. Therefore, my therapeutic approach includes evidence-based techniques such as psychodynamic psychotherapy, CBT, and DBT. My hope is that mental health treatment becomes part of your routine, the same way we make plans to exercise or see a primary care specialist. Warmth and compassion I believe are keys to establishing a therapeutic sense of safety and trust. Then we can explore deeper issues such as shame, fear, sadness, and self-doubt. Together, we will make goals that lead to the changes you want in life.

Dr. Hirsch specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Schema Therapy, and Acceptance Commitment Therapy to help people live more meaningful lives. Her previous roles include working as a senior psychologist at the Mount Sinai Traumatic Stress Studies Program followed by becoming the Clinical Director of Mount Sinai's Eating and Weight Disorders program, and then in 2010 spent her time developing the Mount Sinai Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Program, where she was the Clinical Director from 2010-2015.

Denise Elizabeth Erker is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who has been in the field for over 25 years. She received her Master's in Social Work (MSW) from SUNY Stony Brook, and she has worked in a wide variety of settings. Ms. Erker strongly believes in Trauma Informed Care. Her approach to care is to work collaboratively with the client. She has been trained in a number of different modalities, believing different people needs different ways of help, and sometimes people need one way of assistance one day and a different one another day. She has been trained in CBT, MI, DBT and EMDR.

Erin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), grief and loss, fertility, and pregnancy loss. Erin specializes in working with clients from adolescence to adulthood. She is a certified Daring Way Facilitator, a highly experiential methodology based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, focusing on self-compassion, shame resilience, and vulnerability. Erin is also a Gottman trained therapist providing couples' therapy.

My approach is collaborative, viewing therapy as a shared journey towards healing and growth. Together, we will work to develop insight, cultivate self compassion, process trauma and loss, and expand your coping skills to navigate the challenges you face with greater confidence and resilience. I am passionate about my work, and strive to create an open and accepting space for you to explore your thoughts, emotions and experiences.

Therapy is a sacred space for you to process difficult emotions. My clinical approach is for clients to create meaning and purpose in life through reshaping the narrative of painful experiences and re-connecting to their internal strengths. Through changing self-talk, old attachment patterns, and building self-esteem, we can cultivate new neural pathways to allow you to flourish. I use a variety of cognitive and somatic approaches, including CBT, ACT, IFS, and EMDR, to aid you in your healing journey. My hope is to offer you a space to be heard, loved, and celebrated for your authentic self.

We are a Practice of 6 highly talented Psychotherapists. We believe in real, practical Transformative Psychotherapy focusing on more than just symptoms, helping each client live his/her happiest life through Positive Psychology. We use Mindfulness Techniques to help understand your thoughts and feelings and how these manifest in your body: yesterday, today and projecting into the future. Our team has deep training and experience in a wide range of specialties: Trauma and PTSD, Eating Disorders, Panic Attacks, Sex Therapy, Bio Feedback, Chronic Pain, IVF/Surrogacy, Spirituality, LGBTQA, Death/Dying/Hospice, and Business Coaching. We work with Children, Couples, Individuals and Families.

Yoon Im Kane is a psychotherapist, author, keynote speaker and the founder and CEO of Mindful Psychotherapy Services, a Manhattan-based Psychotherapy Company with offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Trained at Yale University, Yoon has been providing treatment as a psychotherapist for more than two decades. She is also the founder of a Maui-based tech company, mndlink, inc., a remote therapy platform that securely connects therapist with patients. Yoon is the author of Mindfulness Workbook for Depression: Effective Mindfulness Strategies to Cultivate Positivity from the Inside Out.

My patients come to treatment to open up repressed parts of themselves. Sometimes, my patients are struggling to integrate family backgrounds, religious,or cultural with their lives today. They have often succeeded in their professional lives but feel stuck in their romantic or interpersonal lives.My patients usually bring a curiosity about how their history effects their present lives.They are interested in engaging in a treatment which examines this closely in order to understand why they are feeling blocked and to open up a greater sense of inner freedom in order to live more meaningful and fuller lives.

Sarah Balascio is a nationally board-certified art therapist and adjunct lecturer with over 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, seniors, families, and groups. Sarah has a master’s degree in Education from Lesley University in Massachusetts and a second master’s degree in Art Therapy from Pratt Institute in New York. She has practiced art therapy in hospitals including New York Presbyterian, residential programs for adolescents, eating disorder treatment centers, schools, autism centers, the College of William & Mary, and in private practice.

I am a therapist specializing in depression, anxiety, career transitions, relationships and interpersonal issues.  I work particularly well with performing artists, people struggling with grief, lack of self-esteem or self-confidence, eating disorders, as well as many other issues. I am a psychodynamic and psychoanalytically trained therapist, which means that I explore what has contributed to your current situation and, of course, what you can do about it now. There is no "one size fits all" approach to therapy; we find what is useful to you. I draw on my background as a yoga teacher, when applicable.

Gail Holler-Kennedy, LMHC. I believe the therapeutic relationship and comfort is of utmost importance. I have an easygoing personality and incorporate humor when appropriate. I utilize cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy and systemic theories. I also believe that education is important. This is a multimodal approach and is dependent on client's comfort and benefit.

Therapy that reduces suffering and increases success in love and work: these are my goals. I have a unique range of preparation for this work: psychologist, clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and professor to many clinical practitioners, and 30+ years of practice, I can meet each person or couple with an approach that is tailored to their specific needs. Anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, eating disorders, relational problems - among others, these problems of living are possible to resolve or significantly reduce, and I have had success in working with all these as well as other difficulties. My focus is wellness.

In addition to my faculty and hospital-based roles, in my private practice I see children, teens, adults, couples, and families. I am licensed in Massachusetts, New York, and British Columbia. Harvard Medical School trained, I deliver evidence-based approaches and treat a range of psychiatric diagnoses using a bio-psycho-social model. I welcome all backgrounds and strive for culturally responsive and attuned care. My interventions also include mindfulness and focus on reducing distress and improving relationships, all delivered with warmth, humor, and science.

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.

The Agresta Psychotherapy group has been providing psychotherapeutic services in the Metropolitan area for over thirty years. I, personally, have worked in the mental health profession in various capacities for over 20 years. My specialties include anxiety disorders, relationship counseling, women's issues and family and group therapy. I established a division of APG called Women's Wellness. Women's Wellness specializes in problems commonly associated with women, such as postpartum depression, fertility, adoption and surrogacy, women's cancers, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, parenting skills and couples issues.

If Self Help advice and strategies had been enough you probably would not be looking for a therapist. Those strategies make sense but are often very difficult to implement. The human psyche is a complicated mechanism which tends to resist change. Breaking problematic patterns of behavior and interactions with family, friends and in work environments is harder than it looks. Past history , fears and anxieties often contribute to making it difficult to make positive changes in ones life. My work with you includes examination of factors making it difficult to change and strengthening your resolve to make beneficial changes.