Provider Directory

Cara Gardenswartz

Psychologist, PhD

I am the founder of GroupTherapyNY and GroupTherapyLA. I lead a team of highly skilled therapists who work with individuals, children/teens, couples, groups, and families, providing in-person sessions as well as virtual services. The practice is designed to offer personalized and comprehensive therapeutic services tailored to meet the diverse needs of our clients. The practice is designed to offer personalized and comprehensive therapeutic services tailored to meet the diverse needs of our clients. The therapists and psychologists each utilize various modalities, including Psychodynamic therapy, DBT, CBT, EMDR, Brainspotting, Biofeedback, Insight-oriented therapy, Play Therapy, and Somatic Therapy and various Couples modalities. We also offer life-coaching services.

Nina Miller

Psychologist, Ph.D.

I offer individual psychotherapy to adults of all ages and backgrounds. For the past 25 years, I’ve provided short-term and long-term therapy for individuals’ seeking to navigate stress, build coping skills, and find greater ease and self-awareness. I also offer therapy supervision to mental health professionals.

Jeremy Barnett

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, SEP, CASAC

I am a passionate psychotherapist with a decade of experience helping those with a variety of issues. I have significant experience working with addiction, grief and loss, attachment issues, depression, anxiety, and trauma. As a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I use SE often when working with any of the above issues. I bring empathy, genuineness, and curiosity to my clients and believe that a strong therapeutic relationship involves trust and safety, as they lay foundation for growth and insight.

Basha Silver

Psychologist, Psy.D.

Dr. Basha Silver is a New York State licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Silver earned a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology-Yeshiva University and a B.A. from Colgate University in Sociology & Anthropology. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety (e.g. social anxiety, OCD, panic, generalized anxiety). She has particular interest in reproductive mental health, including infertility, third party reproduction, postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, and the adjustment to parenthood. She also enjoys addressing issues related to young adulthood, including peer and relationship stressors, challenging family dynamics, and the adjustment to college and post-college life.

Kerstin Bennett

Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT

I’m a licensed psychotherapist based in Flatiron, NYC offering in person and virtual sessions, with over 20 years of experience helping individuals and couples navigate relational trauma, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and life stress. Challenging circumstances, transitions, and old patterns that no longer serve you can be daunting to face alone. I’ll meet you where you are and support you in finding what you need and want in your life right now.

My style is warm, attentive, grounded—and at times, humorous. I offer a kind, nonjudgmental space where we can attend to all the parts of you that you want to explore. I approach each client uniquely, because each person brings their own history, strengths, and needs. We’ll collaborate on a treatment plan and check in regularly to ensure the work is meaningful and effective.

Katherine Cooke

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R, BCD

I am a licensed clinical social worker in practice for over 20 years. I specialize in working with patients suffering from depression, anxiety, as well as postpartum women, parents of children with special needs and NICU moms. I also work extensively with performing artists.

Kat Safavi

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, M.Ed.

Kat Safavi has nearly 20 years of experience working with patients experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma and grief. She has extensive experience working with patients diagnosed with ALS, Parkinson’s and movement disorders, brain tumors and Glioblastomas, epilepsy, dementia, MS, and other neurological disorders who are adjusting to diagnosis and disease progression. Kat is well-versed in palliative and hospice care and end of life planning and bereavement counseling. Kat has worked with patients who are seeking gender-affirming care. Kat’s approach to therapy is psychodynamic and trauma-informed and she tailors therapy to individual needs drawing from her training in CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness

Mara Heiman-Sunshine

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R

I am an experienced psychoanalyst, couples therapist, clinical supervisor/consultant and integrative psychotherapist in private practice in NYC. I work with adults, adolescents, children, couples and groups with issues that include anxiety, depression, ADD, fertility, pregnancy loss, postpartum adjustment, parenting, relationships, work, school/learning difficulties, creativity blocks, eating disorders, chronic and acute medical illness. grief, infidelity and life transitions. I also provide clinical supervision for early and mid-career clinicians in the field.

Alla Shapiro

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC-D, LPC

Alla specializes in working with couples, parents, and women navigating the transition into motherhood. Drawing from psychodynamic, Existential therapy, family systems, and narrative therapy, she helps people understand the underlying patterns driving disconnection—often shaped by early experiences, relational trauma, and cultural expectations.

Jaclyn Ghamar

Psychologist, PsyD

I am a licensed psychologist in private practice specializing in the management of complex psychiatric challenges.

Jamie Adges

Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, LCAT

Jamie Adges is a Licensed Creative Arts Psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner with a full time private practice in New York City. Jamie works with children, adolescents, and adults, integrating a wide variety of approaches ranging from trauma informed psychodynamic therapy, creative expressive approaches, and somatic therapies. Jamie offers both virtual and in person sessions on the Upper West Side.

Lexi Mulee

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, MS, CASACT

Lexi Mulee, MS, LMHC, CASAC-T, founder of Wise Mind Individual Counseling, maintains a private psychotherapy practice specializing in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Through the use of genuine support and sincere validation, Lexi works closely with each client to ensure their personalized goals are being met. It is the DBT belief, and Lexi’s personal style, to view the relationship between client and clinician as equal partners in your journey. As if both are in a rowboat, rowing in sync towards your goals!

Stacia Thiel

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

I am an experienced NY/NJ licensed integrative clinical social worker offering a trauma informed approach to treat adult individuals, couples and families. I am EMDR certified, hypnotherapy certified, and have extensive experience and training in marriage & family therapy incorporating EFT for couples, attachment based interventions and Discernment Counseling Certification for Couples. I work collaboratively and holistically with my clients to address personal and relational challenges specializing in anxiety, depression, OCD, grief, behavioral struggles as well as unresolved emotional injuries from childhood. Equally, I work with and provide support for couples & families navigating life transitions and challenges such as; parenting, health diagnosis, retirement, divorce, grief/loss, intimacy, parenting and, infidelity. I frequently work with artists, designers, writers & actors and support creative exploration and the mind/body connection as a path toward healing.

Jocelyn Goldberg

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC

I am a licensed psychotherapist working in person on the Upper West Side of NYC and virtually in New York & New Jersey. I work with adults in their 20s & 30s on self-esteem, relationship issues, and religious trauma with a focus on the LGBTQ community. I am a clinical supervisor at UWS Therapy Group, a group practice dedicated to working with emerging adults.