Provider Directory

Pamela Haynes

Master Social Worker, LMSW

Pamela is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) with a passion for social justice and helping people to empower themselves to grow, learn and create change in their lives.  Through a biopsychosocial lens, she utilizes a strengths-based and non-judgmental approach to collaborate with clients to help them achieve their goals. Including humor and authenticity, her clinical style is warm and engaging to foster a supportive therapeutic relationship.

Arielle Toporovsky

Psychologist, Ph.D, PMH-C

I am a NYS Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over a decade of experience providing psychotherapy, neuropsychological evaluations, and critical case consultations for healthcare professionals. My specialties include working with clients with acute and chronic health conditions, anxiety, depression, life transitions, learning difficulties, conflictual relationships, and those in the perinatal period. Above all, I am committed to bringing empathy, openness, and honesty to the therapy space to foster growth and positive change.

Susan Sanders

Clinical Social Work/Therapist

Hello. I am pleased to join the Women's Mental Health Consortium and look forward to collaborating with colleagues going forward.

I am a seasoned LCSW-R, with expertise in Child and Adolescent therapy, psychotherapy for individuals and families experiencing acute and chronic illness and therapy for intergenerational trauma.
I am licensed in New York State and maintain both in-office and virtual hours.

Elizabeth Kapstein

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R, EMDR

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R) providing therapy for individuals and couples. My work centers on helping adults navigate life transitions, relationship challenges, and career development, as well as supporting those coping with trauma and PTSD, mood and anxiety disorders, emotional regulation difficulties, substance use concerns, and volatile relationships. I also have experience working with clients affected by trauma, addiction, or significant life changes; individuals who stutter; those in non-monogamous or kink relationships; and members of the Queer, Trans, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Jacqueline Cahalan

Psychologist, Ph.D.

Dr. Jacqueline Cahalan is a New York State Licensed Psychologist who specializes in providing parents with consultation, education, therapy, and support via her exclusively telehealth-based private practice. Dr. Cahalan has her Ph.D. in School Psychology from New York University and a background in child and adolescent development and mental health that she utilizes to provide research-based guidance and practical strategies for navigating the challenges of parenting.

Afshan Mohamedali

Psychologist, PhD

I am a New York, New Jersey, and Washington DC licensed clinical psychologist, supervisor, and doctoral professor. I work with individual adults and couples experiencing distress due to fluctuations in mood, changing life circumstances, difficult relationships, and uncertain identity. Given my own multicultural identity, I approach every patient with compassion and curiosity for their experiences, encouraging those I work with to practice the same.

Emily Kurlansik

Psychologist, Psy.D, BCBA, NCSP

Validating the ways that complex humans think, feel, interpret and react to the world can be life changing. Learn to thrive.

Charlene Zhen

Master Social Worker, LMSW

I'm a psychodynamic therapist in Union Square, working with individuals and couples. Many of my clients are late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults making sense of a lifetime of masking, and Asian Americans and adult children of immigrants navigating family and cultural expectations. I also work with couples, including interracial and mixed neurotype couples.

Erica Harris

Psychologist, PhD

I am a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice, and work with individuals, couples, families, and groups through a primarily psychodynamic framework. Through insight-oriented work with a focus on interpersonal relationship dynamics, attachment, and family systems, I help adults uncover repressed trauma from childhood and adolescence in order to help them gain a more nuanced understanding about their unhealthy relationship dynamics, from past and present, in order to live healthier and more fulfilling lives.

Layne P. Raskin

Psychologist, Psy.D., M.A., IMH-E®, PMH-C

Dr. Raskin (PsyD, MA, PMH-C, IMH-E®) is a licensed clinical psychologist who earned her doctorate from New York University and completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at the St. Luke's Hospital Parent-Infant Center where her work focused on supporting women throughout the perinatal period. As a certified Perinatal Mental Health Specialist and Infant Mental Health Specialist, Dr. Raskin has spent years supporting women, parents and families navigating the changes and transitions throughout the family building years. Dr. Raskin specializes in trauma treatment, integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to support deep, lasting healing.

Krista Larson

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R

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.

Ruby Rhoden

Psychologist, Psy.D.

Life did not go how you imagined. I am a Licensed Psychologist in NY and NJ who can help you work through that.

Ilena Osma

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

I am a Psychotherapist licensed in New York State & Florida. I offer tele-health (video sessions) for residents in both states and I accept insurance.

Laurie Chameides

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

I am a nationally recognized perinatal bereavement specialist with over 30 years experience helping families who experience any kind of reproductive loss. I help individuals, couples and groups begin to heal from stillbirth, neonatal death, miscarriage, TFMR and infertility challenges, and work through the anxiety and other challenges that often accompany subsequent pregnancies.