Provider Directory

Lea Cheen is a licensed clinical social worker with experience helping children, adolescents, and adults work through anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, life transitions, and identity and interpersonal challenges. She believes that when people are provided with a safe and nonjudgmental space to explore, reflect, and process, incredible growth and healing can take place.

I am a licensed clinical social worker with my certification in perinatal mental health. I provide affirming and social justice-oriented supportive care to individual clients in New York.
I am an active therapist with a pragmatic, client-centered approach to my work. I often utilize techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), psychodynamic therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to help clients meet their goals and make positive changes. I like to cultivate a safe holding space for everyone I work with to express their feelings freely and without judgment.
My previous experience has been in working with LGBTQI- identified individuals as well as individuals living with HIV, Herpes, cancers, and other chronic illnesses.

My practice is focused on working with neurodiverse adults who need help moving past difficult life events or emotional experiences that keep them stuck and/or vulnerable to emotional disconnection, anxiety, trauma or relational pain. I work from a neuroaffirming, sociocultural affirming lens to support those who have had difficulty accessing their emotional world, and connecting their head and heart so they can access their inherent wisdom within and heal.

I work with teens and adults to help them understand the impact of past experiences on the present, but also focus on the here and now. I incorporate breathing and meditation practices to cope with everyday stress.

I am a pediatric psychologist with a background in treating children with serious medical conditions and their family members. I have specific expertise in pediatric cancer and rare disease. In my practice I now primarily work with parents or other caregivers of children with medical or developmental concerns.  I accept couples on a case-by-case basis.  I also work with bereaved parents.

Dr. Mayville specializes in couple therapy and individual therapy focused on improving relationships and reducing anxiety. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine and uses CBT, acceptance strategies, and empathy.

Dr. Katie Morel is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in NYC. She specializes in maternal mental health, particularly perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, reproductive issues, and perinatal loss. She also specializes in working with children, adolescents, and young adults with anxiety, trauma, attachment/relationship challenges, and depression. Dr. Morel uses an integrative approach, conceptualizing psychodynamically and integrating techniques from DBT and CBT. She graduated from Stanford University and received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University, Brooklyn.

Dr. Heidi Esterman is a psychologist in private practice and a Supervising Psychologist at The Motherhood Center of New York.

Dr. Esterman has experience working with the perinatal population in both outpatient and inpatient settings. She has provided psychological services for a wide range of diagnoses and presentations in the context of the perinatal period, including trauma, personality disorders, and severe and persistent mental illness. She has expertise working with women recovering from postpartum psychosis, depression, anxiety, and perinatal loss.

Dr. Esterman also has specialized training in couples therapy through the William Alanson While Institute. Treatment is directed at helping couples navigate conflict, improve communication, and strengthen their relationship.

I offer both talk-based and art-based online psychotherapy sessions to adults in New York and New Mexico.

Together we will reduce your symptoms of anxiety and depression. We’ll develop new personal tools and resources that support your overall wellness and a better quality of life.

Warm, personalized therapy can help strengthen your confidence. I will help you learn how to problem solve and approach your life and relationships with greater empathy.

Many of my clients reach out because they are ready to choose proactive and positive changes in their lives and relationships, but they may not know where to begin.

I am a licensed clinical social worker with 12+ years of experience providing evidence-based treatment to adult individual clients. I specialize in working with adult children of alcoholic parents and I am a published author on the subject. While I have a solid skills-based foundation and I like to establish goals for therapy, my work is very relational and interpersonal. I place the emphasis on goodness of fit and trust first.

I treat adult individuals and couples. I am intensively-trained in DBT through Behavioral Tech and also have training in DBT-PE, ExRP, DBT for couples, and EFT. My practice is mission-based and focuses on increasing accessibility to DBT for clients with less means.

Shannique Richards, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in New York State and New Jersey and an Instructor in Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at the at Columbia University Medical Center.

I’m a Licensed Master Social Worker working with teens and adults navigating anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, and life transitions. My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in helping you better understand yourself and feel more steady in your day-to-day life. I aim to create a space where you can be real, feel supported, and grow at your own pace.

I specialize in treating personality disorders, as well as extensive experience treating schizophrenia, chronic pain, substance abuse issues, stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, and coping with life changes. My treatment modalities are CBT and DBT Therapy, receiving advanced training in both at Upstate Medical University Syracuse NY.