Provider Directory

Your mental health care is important. Encouraging authenticity, inclusivity, and humor, we will collaborate to establish a foundation of trust and increased awareness. I utilize psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral therapy and somatic techniques along with mindfulness when appropriate to customize treatment to meet your needs. I want you to feel safe to bring your whole self to therapy, and to feel nurtured in the process. I know that connecting with a therapist can be a challenge, and I welcome a conversation to explore if we are a fit.

I provide research-based psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families. I work with adults who are struggling with self-criticism, anxiety, grief, depression, or relationship problems. I specialize in helping individuals heal from experiences of trauma and have expertise in women's issues that can impact mental health like pregnancy, parenting, infertility, menopause, and pregnancy loss. I also offer therapy for couples and families who are wishing to heal from conflict or infidelity and improve relationship satisfaction.

I am a board-certified drama psychotherapist and licensed creative arts therapist with over 30 years of experience; I specialize in working with children, adolescents, and adults with developmental trauma and do parent coaching. I created a drama therapy method that has been used in schools with thousands of youth with behavioral challenges. I have published in journals for psychotherapy and am presently completing a book about working with youth with trauma. I live and work in New York City. I do in-person and online therapy

Christina holds two Master’s Degrees from Columbia University in Psychiatry (MSN) and Advanced Clinical Practice (MSW) with a sub-specialty in addiction. She is a board certified, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) who treats adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.

I am a PMH-C (Certified Perinatal Mental Health Clinician), with extensive training in perinatal mood disorders such as postpartum anxiety and depression, and I love working with both women and men along the fertility journey, whether that includes infertility, discussions about IVF or third party reproduction such as surrogacy and egg donation, healing from a traumatic birth, addressing the complexities of grief around miscarriage and loss, or complicated feelings about termination.

I am an EMDR certified clinician, as well as an EMDR consultant for clinicians pursuing their own EMDR certification and training.

I'm a NY and NJ-licensed psychologist with a special interest in working with high achieving women experiencing anxiety, grief, or trauma related to fertility preservation, miscarriage, the perinatal period, and matrescence. I'm also a certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International and passionate about BIPOC maternal mental health.

My name is Nneka Symister, and I am a licensed clinical social worker with over two decades of experience in social services, including more than ten years in private practice. I have worked with diverse populations throughout New York.

I specialize in supporting individuals navigating perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, infertility, grief and loss, relationship challenges, and life stressors. My work integrates CBT, EMDR, interpersonal therapy, mindfulness, stress management, and meditation.

I have extensive experience in crisis intervention and helping people to reach a point of stasis after an event that disrupts their life: a relationship break up, a job loss, a traumatic event, or other life transition. As a psychotherapist my clinical focus is on substance use disorders/addictions, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, trauma, anxiety, and depression, utilizing a relational, psychodynamic approach informed by CBT and DBT while utilizing a relational and supportive approach. With 6 years’ experience working in the hospital setting, 3 years on a Substance Use Disorder Unit, 2 years on the Borderline Personality Disorder Unit, and 1 year working on a Young Adult Mood Disorder Unit. I see the therapeutic relationship as a partnership and my practice attitude is collaborative, warm and empathic.
I am currently offering virtual tele-health appointments.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist in New York and Massachusetts. I provide evidence-based therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and parents, drawing primarily from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). I also offer exposure-based treatment for anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as Parent Management Training (PMT) to help parents effectively support and manage their child’s emotions and behaviors.

My clinical specialties include anxiety disorders, OCD, depression, ADHD, and stress related to life transitions and everyday challenges.

I opened my private practice in 2022, and my colleague, Abby Zisk, PhD, joined the practice in 2025. In addition to my clinical work, I serve as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, where I teach and supervise psychology and psychiatry trainees.

Out of network.
Therapeutic modalities: Integrative: Cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic (short-term and long-term psychotherapy).
Specializations: Anxiety disorders. Mood disorders. Identity issues. Relationship issues. Major life transitions. Trauma. Perinatal and menopausal mental health.
Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati

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 am a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist. I work with children, teens, adults, and perinatal women struggling with adjustment, anxiety, depression, and other difficulties that arise during major life transitions.

Dr. Keara Mageras is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York City who works with adults navigating anxiety, relationship difficulties, and significant life and career transitions. She practices integratively, drawing on a range of evidence-based approaches—including CBT, DBT, ACT, and psychodynamic therapy—tailored to each person. At the center of her work is the therapeutic relationship itself, which she sees not as a backdrop to change but as the very thing that makes it possible.

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.