Provider Directory

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.

Alla specializes in working with couples, parents, and women navigating the transition into motherhood. Drawing from psychodynamic, Existential therapy, family systems, and narrative therapy, she helps people understand the underlying patterns driving disconnection—often shaped by early experiences, relational trauma, and cultural expectations.

Catherine Birndorf, MD is co-founder and medical director of The Motherhood Center of New York. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology and founding director of the Payne Whitney Women’s Program at The New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan.

Hello! I'm a board certified clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience working with adults and adolescents, including active military personnel and veterans who face challenges related to anxiety, depression, trauma, and PTSD. I'm a certified EMDR therapist, CPT and PE provider, and somatic experiencing practitioner. I have intensive training in DBT and have been practicing mindfulness and meditation for 20 years. Finding a therapist that's a good fit for you may feel like a difficult task. It's important to find someone you're comfortable with and ultimately trust to help you identify and meet your needs and goals. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for an initial free phone consultation. I look forward to hearing from you.

As a psychotherapist, my goal is for you to feel comfortable as your authentic self in each session and to create a space for you to process what is going on in your world. You can expect a therapeutic environment that is supportive, warm, and judgment-free. I believe you are the expert on your life. Together, we will learn more about your emotions, beliefs, and behaviors to bolster long-term healing and growth in the ways that you are looking for.

I am a licensed psychoanalyst and a licensed creative arts therapist and I work with adults, couples, adolescents, and children in downtown Brooklyn and virtually. Through utilizing relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy, mindfulness, and creative arts therapy techniques my patients work towards increasing their self-esteem, improving their relationships, understanding family conflicts, and accepting themselves for who they are. My specialties include working with women who are struggling with fertility issues, perinatal mood disorders, and the challenges of parenting. In addition I have experience in working with creative people, ADHD, patients who have a history of trauma, eating disorders, and people who are affected by addiction.

I provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adults, adolescents and children both in-person and remotely in New York. My specialties include working with people with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, somatic issues and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Erica Alter LCSW is a NYS and CT licensed couples and individual therapist, with private practices in Upper Westchester and in Greenwich Connecticut. She hold an advanced certification in couples therapy from the Training Institute of Mental Health and specializes in working with couples at all stages of conflict and chapters of life. Erica has almost a decade of experience helping couples turn their relationship issues into constructive opportunities rather than destructive dynamics. Through EFT, she works with them to identify patterns, reconstruct attachments, and exchange lasting empathy. She also works with individuals who struggle with anxiety, depression, career dissatisfaction, sleep disorders, and the transition to parenting.  Through mindfulness-based therapies and CBT, Erica works with individuals and the power of self-compassion to help clients become their own agents of change.

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.

I offer psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to adults in person near Union Square. I specialize in matters related to the body, wishes and desires, and relationships of all kinds, which is another way of saying anything related to gender, sexuality, and embodiment. I’m also a generalist at heart and see people experiencing depression, anxiety, symptoms of trauma, and other difficulties. I approach the therapeutic process as a meaningful, co-created experience that lends itself to new ways of being in the world.

I am NY and NJ licensed clinical social worker specializing in perinatal mental health. I support parents during pregnancy and postpartum with a variety of challenges including depression, anxiety, grief/loss, birth trauma, fertility, bonding with baby, and life transitions. Babies are welcome in my Nyack office and telehealth is available for NY/NJ.

Denise Rayvid is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 25 years experience working with individuals and families. She has a private practice in Manhattan’s Upper West Side treating adults, adolescents, children, parents/couples and elders with a wide range of social-emotional difficulties. These issues include anxiety, depression, trauma, difficulties navigating social dynamics, life transitions, behavioral and learning challenges, and complicated family relationships.

I am a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience helping people with a wide range of difficulties. I have also served on the faculty of the NYU School of Social Work as well as Columbia School of Social Work.

I offer individual and couples therapy for late teens through late life which incorporates relational, analytic, and CBT oriented techniques in a supportive and collaborative framework.