Provider Directory

Ellen C. Cohen

Mental Health Counselor, PhD

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.

Katie Crank

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, PMH-C

Katie is a nonbinary, neurodivergent clinician working with adults in the perinatal stage or who are struggling with an intense season of parenting. They also work with folks who are neurodivergent, queer, and/or gender non-conforming. Katie is a certified Good Inside Parent Coach, and sees coaching clients nationwide.

Alyssa Kushner

Clinical Social Work/Therapist

Hi! I'm an LCSW based in NYC, I provide virtual therapy in New York (NY), New Jersey (NJ), Washington DC, and Maryland (MD). I specialize in working with adults struggling with relational and complex trauma, anxiety, codependency, people pleasing, and perfectionism. I also support anyone interested in shifting their relationship with alcohol. I take a relational, holistic, trauma-informed, attachment based, and somatic approach! I am also trained in EMDR, somatic approaches, and mindful self compassion. In addition to therapy, I supervise, run support groups and EMDR intensives.

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.

Maytal Meltzer

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in NYC. I offer psychotherapy services for young adults and adults. I have postgraduate training in psychodynamic psychotherapy and utilize psychodynamic, relational and mindfulness approaches with my patients. I focus on women's issues, anxiety, life transitions and young adults.

Anastasia Zankowsky

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Anastasia Zankowsky, LCSW specializes in working with grief, trauma and PTSD, chronic and/or life-limiting illness, and LGBTQIA identities. Her practice is virtual and includes individuals and relationships/dyads. Anastasia works through a framework that is relational and strengths-based, and is LGBQA, trans, poly, and kink affirmative.

Elisabeth Beron

Psychologist, Psy.D.

I'm a Clinical Psychologist with 30 years of experience. I have special experience working with performing artists, having worked at Juilliard for the last 14 years. I see adolescents and adults in my UWS practice both in person and virtually.

Erika Malm

Clinical Social Work/Therapist

In my work with individuals, couples, and families, my goal is to help you reconnect, or connect for the first time, with your personal sense of meaning in order to carve out a life that is fulfilling.

Suzi Tortora

Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Ed.D., BC-DMT, LCAT, LMHC

I am a NYS Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT). Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), National Certified Counselor (NCC), and Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), author and lecturer. In 2003, I created and continue to be the senior dance/movement therapist for pediatric patients at Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY. In private practice for almost 40 years, I developed and am director of Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC [www.dancingdialogue.com] a private creative arts psychotherapy practice with offices in Cold Spring, NY and NYC, specializing in the role of nonverbal communication and the body-mind-emotion connection. Collectively, our art, dance, and couples/family therapists focus on themes related to all aspects of the parent-infant attachment relationship from conception to postpartum; early parent-infant attachment; parenting in the digital age; sensory processing difficulties; ADHD; autism; child/teen and family dynamics; trauma; pediatric medical illness; adult chronic pain; grief and loss.

Remi Appel

Psychologist

I am a licensed clinical psychologist in New York. I earned my Psy.D. and MSEd (Masters of Science in Education) from Pace University and am trained in both individual and couples therapy. I also conduct psychological evaluations for children, teens, young adults and adults. I value the uniqueness of each individual patient and utilize an integrative approach to treatment focusing on exploration, insight and action in order to create a tailored treatment plan that best meets the needs of my patients.

Sameena Groves

Psychologist, Ph.D.

Dr. Sameena Groves is a cognitive behavioral therapist who treats adolescents and adults in a private practice setting. With an office in Bronxville, NY and an office across from Grand Central, Dr. Groves typically works with clients referred for anxiety, depression, and other problems interfering with daily functioning. She uses her training in CBT, DBT, and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) to help clients make daily choices consistent with their values and goals. Dr. Groves particularly enjoys working with young women in their twenties and thirties, a they navigate the many transitions and trade-offs that arise during these years.

Hayat Yussuf

Clinical Social Work/Therapist

Hayat Yussuf, LCSW, MBA, is an EMDRIA-Certified EMDR Therapist, trauma specialist, and Executive Coach in New York City. She offers weekly EMDR-focused therapy and EMDR Intensives—condensed sessions for accelerated healing—alongside somatic and CBT approaches. Hayat specializes in helping adults overcome trauma, anxiety, and performance challenges with a collaborative, integrative style.

Emily Upshur

Psychologist, Ph.D.

Emily Upshur, Ph.D., is a New York State licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Upshur received her Master's degree in developmental psychology from Tufts University, and holds both a Master’s degree and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Graduate School and University Center at the City University of New York, an American Psychological Association accredited training program.

Dr. Upshur currently has a faculty appointment at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and is a Supervising Psychologist at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, where she trains psychiatry residents, psychology interns, and psychology externs. She was the Clinical Director of the Center for Child Trauma and Resilience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has a private practice in Manhattan as well as Westchester, New York.

Dr. Upshur has a decade of experience working in a wide range of clinical settings, including hospital outpatient clinics, in-patient units, psychiatric emergency rooms, college and graduate student counseling programs, private psycho-educational and neuropsychological testing facilities, and faculty private practice. These experiences have given her the unique ability to meet the diverse needs of adults and children.

Brenda A. Lewis

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Experienced, highly-effective therapist, focused on relationships, sexuality & intimacy issues in individuals & couples. Work with multi-cultural people of all ages & backgrounds. Pre-marital therapy for couples. Most individual themes..