Provider Directory

Clinical psychologist & interpersonal psychoanalyst on the Upper West Side, with a practice focus on women's issues, relationship difficulties, and medical issues.

Alexis Sturnick, LCSW, is a skilled therapist specializing in working with clients facing anxiety, OCD, ADHD, eating disorders/disordered eating and body image issues, and life transitions. She also is Perinatal Mental Health Certified. She practices from a psychodynamic lens and uses other evidence-based approaches to facilitate the necessary change a client is seeking. Alexis creates a warm, judgment-free space where adolescents and adults can explore their challenges and build resilience. With her client-centered approach, she empowers individuals to navigate life's complexities and work towards personal growth and healing.

In my practice I strive to create an open, empowering, and creative atmosphere so clients can gain comfort in self-expression. I firmly believe therapy is most effective when there is a collaborative relationship based on trust, curiosity, and growth. Drawing from both science and art, I flexibly and openly provide interventions grounded in research and empirically-supported treatments. I consider myself an integrative therapist with a specialization in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

Dr. Hutner is a specialist in reproductive psychiatry, an emerging medical specialty focused on women's mental health. She is on the leadership team of the National Task Force for Women's Reproductive Mental Health. Her private practice is located in Union Square and midtown.

I am a perinatal art therapist supporting those who identify as caregivers--professionally or personally--in cultivating creative resilience in the workplace, throughout their family building journeys, and beyond. I am a trauma-informed, attachment-based, relational clinician with a virtual practice serving NY & NJ. I have a special focus on maternal, parental, and reproductive wellness using creative clinical approaches grounded in principles of cultural humility, humanism, and the healing power of an empathic creative process. I also provide integrative arts-based wellness workshops on site or remotely for employees in both the public and private sectors to bring creative healing spaces to work. Contact: sharon@cocreatearttherapy.com

I am a clinical social worker with over 15 years of experience working directly with individuals. I provide individual therapy for adults. My goal in working with patients is to help them identify behaviors or thinking patterns that may be keeping them from reaching their full potential in all aspects of their lives. I work primarily from a psychodynamically informed perspective.

Dr. Bauer is a postdoctoral fellow at Silver Therapy Group, a women-led group practice located on the Upper West Side. Dr. Bauer has a passion to support individuals to thrive. Her areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, reproductive mental health, grief/loss, ADHD, emerging adulthood, relationship concerns, and life transitions. Dr. Bauer is particularly motivated to enhance women’s mental health by working with patients across the lifespan. She understands the importance of women helping other women navigate varying challenges, such as puberty and adolescence, infertility, third party reproduction, postpartum adjustment, the transition to parenthood, and menopause.

Hello! My name is Nell and I use a blend of humor, curiosity and collaborative problem-solving in my work with children, adolescents, and adults providing therapy and comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations.

I am a psychotherapist treating adults, adolescents, couples and groups. My area of specialization is treating codependency through the development of healthy boundaries.

My therapeutic practice with young and mature adults uses an integrated psychodynamic approach tailored to the individual needs of each client.

I am a Perinatal Therapist who specializes in Women’s and Maternal Mental Health. I am licensed in DC, Maryland, Virginia, New York, and Connecticut. My passion is working with mothers and individuals who identify as female and my area of focus is in Reproductive Mental Health.

Dr. Eugenia Cherkasskaya is a clinical psychologist who provides individual, couples, and family psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults. She has expertise in the realm of trauma and sexuality and how these intersect in shaping one's sense of self and relationships as well as in the treatment of personality disorders and Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). She has conducted research and written on women's experiences of sexual desire, their bodies, and their parental relationships.

Jaclyn Ghamar PsyD is a licensed psychologist working at the intersection of psychology, systems, and family structure. She has a unique ability to take complex, messy, or long avoided situations and turn them into clear, manageable, and actionable steps, especially when money intensifies the emotional and structural challenges. Her practice includes clinical treatment, parent guidance, and consultation with fiduciaries, attorneys, and advisors who support families navigating psychiatric complexity, financial transitions, and relational strain. She is known for her ability to integrate emotional insight with practical strategy and for bringing clarity to moments when mental health concerns and family decision making converge.

I provide Individual, Couples and Family Therapy (Families with young adult and adult children) and Clinical Case Consultation for Professionals.

Areas of focus Include: Specialization in Mind/Body Healing,
stress management, work/life balance, infidelity, relationship discourse, family conflict, grief/loss, sibling loss, sibling relationships, PTSD/trauma, sudden loss, illness/disease, life transitions, depression and anxiety.

I Utilize Somatic Experiencing, EFT (Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy), Attachment theory, Neurobiology, Mindfulness, Guided Visualizations and Cognitive- Behavioral techniques.