Provider Directory

I work with adults to relieve suffering, to develop resilience, and to enhance their ability to experience high-level well-being. Specialty areas include anxiety; stress; obsessive-compulsive challenges; creativity blocks; life transitions; self-management for chronic diseases; and adjunctive-to-medical approaches to cancer, during and after treatment. I use an integrative approach tailored to the needs, abilities, and interests of each patient or couple.

Specializing in eating disorders and body image disturbances, couples/ relationship issues particularly postpartum. Insight-oriented psychotherapy with practical, here-and-now focus.

Michelle A. Bell, Psy.D., is an Adjunct Professor and the Clinic Director of the Bronx Telehealth Counseling Center at Lehman College and the owner of Inwood Family Guidance & Psychological Services, PLLC. She is a bilingual (English/Spanish), bi-cultural, licensed psychologist with a specialty in the area of family systems and family-of-origin focused family therapy. In addition to her teaching and clinical work, Dr. Bell is an American Psychological Association Representative to the United Nations.

NYC based psychotherapist specializing in working with individuals and couples at quarterlife (roughly in their 20s to late 30s).

I am a Psychotherapist working in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Through a combination of verbal psychotherapy, art therapy, and EMDR, I cater my approach to each individual's unique needs.

I'm a licensed and board-certified psychodynamic therapist in New York state, treating adults virtually in private practice. I also run therapy groups in inpatient psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital, and facilitate various integrative wellness workshops both virtually and in my local community in Brooklyn, NY.

I am a licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in the Upper East Side. I work with children, adolescents, adults, parent-child dyads and families. I provide evidence-based psychotherapy tailoring treatment to the strengths and needs of each person. I have training in psychodynamic, attachment-based, trauma-informed psychotherapy as well as CBT and play therapy. I am also a certified infant mental health specialist.

Emily Imondi, LMHC, brings over a fifteen years of clinical experience to her work in mental health, including 10 years as a school psychologist before transitioning into private practice. She holds master’s degrees in School Psychology from Fordham University and Mental Health Counseling and Wellness from NYU. Emily enjoys working with adults and couples navigating life transitions, relationship challenges, questions of identity and self-worth, and the complexities of work, family, and personal life, with a particular interest in women’s mental health. Her warm, collaborative, and depth-oriented approach integrates relational insight, health and wellness, and positive psychology to help clients cultivate greater self-understanding, meaning, purpose, and connection.

Esra Atamer is a licensed psychoanalyst in New York City, specializing in anxiety, depression, intimacy and relationship issues, and life transitions. She has extensive experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds, identities, and cultures.

I am a psychotherapist in private practice for close to 20 years. I have an eclectic education and use a variety of approaches including psychodynamic, interpersonal, mindfulness, Gestalt and IFS. I am also trained in Attachment Focused EMDR and Nondual Kabbalistic Healing. I work with a diverse range of individual adults grappling with a wide spectrum of issues including mood disorders, trauma, grief, relationship struggles, and spiritual questions.

I am a psychodynamic therapist who believes the client-therapist bond is an essential part of the healing process. I specialize in anxiety and relationship issues and use a variety of therapeutic modalities to fit my clients' individual needs. My clients and I work together to recognize and harness their strengths, which empowers them to tap into their resilience. I aim to create a safe, warm, and trusting atmosphere where clients feel comfortable being themselves!

I’m a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Professional Counselor based in New York City, providing individual therapy and couples therapy to adults in New York, Connecticut, Florida, and Pennsylvania.

I specialize in helping individuals understand themselves more deeply, break patterns that no longer serve them, and build healthier relationships with themselves and others.

Many people come to therapy feeling anxious, stuck, or frustrated by patterns they can’t seem to change. Together, we’ll explore where those patterns come from, develop a deeper understanding of yourself, and create meaningful change.

Julia Hochstadt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in trauma treatment and crisis intervention. Julia has 15+ years of experience working with survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence (domestic violence) and provides services to survivors as well as secondary survivors of additional types of crime victimization. She maintains a private practice in Midtown Manhattan and is the supervisor of a hospital-based crime victim program in NYC.

I specialize in working in with high achieving women navigating complex chronic illness, chronic pelvic pain and women’s health issues as well as the anxiety and grief that come along with it. My clients are striving to find stability with illness all while juggling their career, relationships and family. I absolutely love what I do and am a firm believer that day to day life can get so much better with a support team behind you.

You may be wondering why I niched in women’s health. Simply put, I get it. After living with chronic illnesses for fifteen years, struggling to find correct diagnoses, surgeries and countless treatments, I understand first hand the impact of women’s health issues on your mental health. I empathize with the toll it takes on your body and your most important relationships. I get the grief that comes with the loss of dreams you had for your future, struggling with your identity as a woman and feeling betrayed by your body. My hope is to use my therapeutic skills and real life experience to help you get to the other side.

I founded New York Women’s CBT and expanded to group private practice with the goal of providing niched, expert care for more women in New York. Our clinicians are experts and passionate about working within women’s health issues. We want to walk together through pain and grief you are feeling, help you cope with anxiety and feel the fog of depression lifted. Complex chronic illness and health issues are a part of your story-they do not have to be all of your story.