Provider Directory

I am a New York based psychotherapist with over 15 years experience working with adults coping with loss, trauma, life limiting medical diagnoses, chronic illness, fertility challenges, relational difficulties, and life-stage transitions.

I am a dedicated therapist anchored in a humanistic, strengths-based approach to addressing mental health concerns.

Lea Cheen is a licensed clinical social worker with experience helping children, adolescents, and adults work through anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, life transitions, and identity and interpersonal challenges. She believes that when people are provided with a safe and nonjudgmental space to explore, reflect, and process, incredible growth and healing can take place.

Nancy Turret is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who treats individuals, couples and families in her private practice. Treatment approaches utilized vary from cognitive behavioral therapy to supportive psychotherapy. Her specialty includes providing Prolonged Grief Disorder Treatment for individuals who continue to remain stuck in an acute state of grief. As a therapist in the Complicated Bereavement Protocol, Nancy Turret provided an innovative individual psychotherapy developed by Katherine Shear, M.D. for the treatment of prolonged grief.
As a senior clinical and research psychiatric social worker at The New York State Psychiatric Institute for the past thirty-five years, Nancy administered diagnostic assessments and ongoing rating scales for the Adult and Late Life Depression Clinic as well as individual, family, and group services on the in-patient General Clinical Services Unit, and the in-patient Schizophrenic unit. Ongoing services were also delivered in outpatient departments treating affective disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders and a variety of other psychiatric illnesses.

A seasoned clinician, supervisor and educator with over four decades of experience in agency and private practice, Lynne is a “therapist’s therapist,” providing psychotherapy, practice building and clinical consultations on difficult and “stuck” cases for clinician-colleagues. Lynne enjoys the challenge of helping folks with treatment resistant problems, utilizing CBT and other scientifically validated, non-medication approaches to helping adults, teenagers, couples and families to feel and be their best.

Change often emerges under validating and supportive environment. In individual therapy, I thrive to create a safe and non-judgmental space where mutual trust can occur to facilitate clients’ self-discovery. My style is genuine, empathic, and interactive. I listen with curiosity, pay close attention to my clients' verbal and non-verbal expressions, and aim to align my approaches with their priorities and goals. Together, my clients and I seek to unpack and co-construct meaning out of their life events with self-compassion. I am interested in helping clients get on a path toward working through the psychological trappings that are getting in their way.

In couples therapy, I work toward providing a safe environment to help clients and their partner(s) listen to one another better and communicate more constructively. I am interested in facilitating true emotional engagement for all parties. Attending to relationship dynamics and their family histories, I guide couples to address each partner’s attachment needs.

I earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The City College of New York and have experience working in public and private hospitals, community mental health centers, and college counseling centers. I am also an Adjunct Clinical Supervisor in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program at The City College of New York and a post-degree candidate of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at NYU.

Tatyana Mestechkina, Ph.D. is the Founder and Clinical Director of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Better Living. She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, practicing in New York, New Jersey and Florida.

She has particular expertise and interest in using evidence-based treatment for obsessive compulsive spectrum, anxiety disorders and women's issues. She was trained by a world-renowned expert in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP/ExRP), the gold-standard of OCD treatment. She often incorporates mindfulness and acceptance techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to supplement exposure work.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and have a certification in hypnosis and Neurolinguistics Programming. With 35 years of experience in the mental health field as a counselor and psychotherapist, I have maintained a well-established practice in Bergen County for 30 years. I am highly experienced in individual, group and family counseling and psychotherapy in addition to workshops, lectures, program development and administration. I am a psychotherapist and the owner of Balance & Thrive Counseling & Psychoeducation Center. 

SARAH SAFFIAN, LCSW-R, MFA, is a psychotherapist, an author, and a teacher. She counsels individual adult clients and runs support groups in private practice in Manhattan and virtually. Her clinical experience also includes New York University's Counseling and Wellness Services and Spence-Chapin Services. Blending her two main areas of interest and expertise, Sarah has created a model called Therapeutic Writing, using memoir exercises, when appropriate, as a tool for encouraging reflection, processing, and discovery. Sarah earned her BA in English from Brown, her MFA in creative writing from Columbia, and her MSW from NYU. http://saffian.com

Dr. Mary Carnesale Gallagher is a licensed clinical psychologist located in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. She specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based approaches. Dr. Gallagher works with children, adolescents, and adults. She has expertise in the treatment of anxiety, trauma, depression, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and stress management.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20+ years experience providing mental health care to individuals. I have advanced training in relational theory from the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies and in Relational Family Therapy for couples and families through the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Additionally, I specialize in fertility counseling and have training in Complicated Grief (also known as Prolonged Grief) Therapy from Columbia University School of Social Work.

Clinical psychologist & interpersonal psychoanalyst on the Upper West Side, with a practice focus on women's issues, relationship difficulties, and medical issues.

Specializing in perinatal mental health, Olivia has offices in Park Slope and Union Square. She has helped hundreds of new and pregnant clients facing challenges such as depression, anxiety, work and family stressors, adapting to becoming a parent, etc. Olivia is also a certified Peaceful Parenting Coach, one of only 15 practitioners around the world trained by Dr. Laura Markham.

I am an LMFT and owner of Artful Couples Therapy, a telehealth practice in NY specializing in creative and performing artists.