Provider Directory

Svetlana Lupashko

Psychiatrist, DO

Dr. Lupashko is a Manhattan-based, Double Board Certified psychiatrist, specializing in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. She has expertise in ADHD, anxiety, depression, life transitions and behavioral problems.

Laura Schneebaum

Mental Health Counselor

Laura Schneebaum is a licensed mental health counselor and a national certified counselor. She takes a client centered, strengths based, and relational approach to working with clients. She places great importance on learning about the client’s identity, culture, and environment to create an individualized approach for each client. She believes the therapeutic process and relationship can be inherently healing and empowering for her clients.

Laurie Giddins Therapy

Master Social Worker

Laurie has over two decades of experience in mental health and education. Specializing exclusively in women's mental health, Laurie empowers her clients to lead more connected, authentic, and fulfilling lives. She helps clients challenge self-doubt and negative self-judgment, resolve emotional pain and trauma, reduce stress and anxiety, and rediscover their innate joy. She has specialized training in trauma recovery and post-traumatic growth.

Judith Brisman

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Judith Brisman was the Founding Director of the Eating Disorder Resource Center for over 35 years. She is co-author of Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends, is an associate editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and is on the editorial board of the journal Eating Disorders. She is a member of the teaching faculty of the William Alanson White Institute and she maintains a private practice in New York City.
Dr. Brisman is known internationally as among the first in her field to develop a treatment program for bulimic patients. She has published and lectured extensively regarding the interpersonal treatment of eating disorders.

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.

KRISTY HAUKE

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

HI. I'm excited to be here. This is my second career. I went back to school to get my MSW in 2013, and graduated in 2015. I have spent my LCSW / Therapist career focusing on trauma, working within the prison population and with first responders.

Melissa Nesle

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Melissa Nesle, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice in downtown Manhattan since 2004 with over 20 years of experience practicing extensively with young adults, couples and families in the area of mental health and substance misuse.

Pria Alpern

Psychologist, Ph.D.

Dr. Alpern is the founder of Center Psychology Group, a small group practice specializing in EMDR and integrative trauma therapy with locations in midtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York. She is an EMDR clinician certified by EMDRIA, the organization dedicated to upholding the modality’s standards. She is also a graduate of the EMDR Clinical Affiliate Program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) Trauma Treatment Center in New York City. Dr. Alpern is an EMDRIA-approved consultant and provides individual and group consultation to EMDR therapists. She also runs continuing education trainings through Center Psychology Group focused on EMDR and trauma-informed psychotherapy.

Dr. Alpern completed specialized training in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders from Postpartum Support International, and she is a special adjunct clinical professor at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, where she earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rosemary Furman Counseling Center at Barnard College, where she specialized in late adolescence, early adulthood, and trauma. Dr. Alpern holds a B.A. in Psychology and Art History from Georgetown University.

Beyond her clinical work, Dr. Alpern offers trauma-related psychoeducation through her TikTok and Instagram accounts. Dr. Alpern has been quoted in Glamour UK, NPR, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times.

Gabrielle E. Rieckhof

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, MA, Ph.D.

I am a psychotherapist working both in person and virtually in midtown Manhattan. I work with adults of all ages dealing with anxiety, depression, grief/loss, life transitions and relationship problems. My clinical specialties include working with women who are facing challenges at transitional points in their lives, immigrants and multiracial folks trying to thrive in our society and people with trauma histories.

Sara Steinberg

Psychologist, PhD

I am a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of adolescents, young adults, and adults. I have expertise in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based approaches.

Rachel Christensen

Master Social Worker, LMSW, LSW

I work relationally and psychodynamically with an attachment-based lens, which means that I care about how your issues from past experiences and relationships are impacting you today. I'm a fan of using psychoeducation to demystify the process of therapy.

Leigh Baitler

Psychologist, PsyD

Dr Baitler is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice.
I specialize in young adults and adults seeking individual or couples counseling for issues related to relationships, professional difficulties, depression and anxiety.

Lindsay S. Hayden

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC

I specialize in working with individuals and couples who struggle with addiction, anxiety, interpersonal issues and self-esteem. I take an action oriented approach and use Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (CBT) as well as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to help my clients improve their lives so that we can get to what's underneath.

Julie Iannone

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R

I am trained in both the Gottman Method for Couples Therapy and Collaborative Couples Therapy, two evidence-based approaches that equip me with the tools to help couples communicate more effectively. I aim to help couples feel heard and understood, have better conversations, and create space for compromise. Together, we work on strengthening their connection, friendship, trust, and intimacy and rediscovering play and fun. These relationship skills also benefit my individual clients, as the same principles apply to personal growth and emotional health.