Provider Directory

jason shimiaie

Psychiatrist, MD

I am a psychiatrist specializing in both medication management and psychotherapy. I am experienced in working with a wide array of conditions including anxiety, depression and ADHD. I have a particular focus and passion for working with individuals who experienced early life traumas and those struggling with disorders of dissociation. I work closely with the LGBTQ population.

Stacia Casillo

Psychologist, Psy.D

I am a licensed psychologist specializing in evidence-based treatment for anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, and ADHD. Using CBT and ACT, I help clients break unhelpful patterns, reduce overwhelm, and create lasting change in a warm, practical, and supportive environment.

Ashwin Gautam

Psychologist

I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with a focus on anxiety, insomnia, identity concerns, and culturally responsive care. I bring deep experience supporting South Asian and immigrant clients, and often work with individuals navigating complex family or relationship dynamics involving male partners.

Kelsey Bates

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, CRC

I specialize in working in with high achieving women navigating complex chronic illness, chronic pelvic pain and women’s health issues as well as the anxiety and grief that come along with it. My clients are striving to find stability with illness all while juggling their career, relationships and family. I absolutely love what I do and am a firm believer that day to day life can get so much better with a support team behind you.

You may be wondering why I niched in women’s health. Simply put, I get it. After living with chronic illnesses for fifteen years, struggling to find correct diagnoses, surgeries and countless treatments, I understand first hand the impact of women’s health issues on your mental health. I empathize with the toll it takes on your body and your most important relationships. I get the grief that comes with the loss of dreams you had for your future, struggling with your identity as a woman and feeling betrayed by your body. My hope is to use my therapeutic skills and real life experience to help you get to the other side.

I founded New York Women’s CBT and expanded to group private practice with the goal of providing niched, expert care for more women in New York. Our clinicians are experts and passionate about working within women’s health issues. We want to walk together through pain and grief you are feeling, help you cope with anxiety and feel the fog of depression lifted. Complex chronic illness and health issues are a part of your story-they do not have to be all of your story.

Anastasia Zankowsky

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Anastasia Zankowsky, LCSW specializes in working with grief, trauma and PTSD, chronic and/or life-limiting illness, and LGBTQIA identities. Her practice is virtual and includes individuals and relationships/dyads. Anastasia works through a framework that is relational and strengths-based, and is LGBQA, trans, poly, and kink affirmative.

Allison Drieves

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

I am a licensed clinical social worker with extensive experience working with teens, adults, couples and families. I have vast experience working with individuals and families who are struggling with couples issues, parent-child relationships, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting and co-parenting.

Ariel Hayat

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Ariel Hayat (she/her/hers) is a fully licensed psychotherapist (LCSW) who is trained in trauma-informed, relationally focused, and client-centered approaches. She supports clients in healing traumatic wounds, building stronger relationships with themselves and others, while creating a life where they are not only surviving but thriving. She specializes in working with individuals, couples, and families who experience anxiety, depression, burnout, trauma, life transitions, self-esteem issues, relationship challenges, and family conflict.

Stephanie Verdeflor

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, MSN, PMHNP-BC

Stephanie is an ANCC Board-Certified PMHNP known for bringing calm, clarity, and connection to complex clinical situations. With over twelve years in psychiatric nursing, she provides psychotherapy and medication management for adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma/PTSD, mood disorders, burnout, and life transitions. Stephanie currently works in the Women’s Mental Health Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health. Her experience spans Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, Mood Disorders, Acute Psychosis, Eating Disorders, Geriatric Psychiatry, Correctional Mental Health, Mobile Crisis, and culturally informed care with the Orthodox Jewish community. She also teaches undergraduate nursing students at Molloy University and precepts PMHNP students, integrating evidence-based care with emotional intelligence and authentic human connection.

Anastasia Voron

Mental Health Counselor

I am a NY-based psychotherapist specializing in maternal mental health through all stages, including pregnancy, postpartum, and the early stages of parenthood. I hold a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and an MA from NYU in Counseling in Mental Health and Wellness.

Lauren D. Smith

Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, MPS, LCAT, LPAT, ATR-BC, ATCS

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.

Kelsey Greene

Master Social Worker, LMSW

I am a trauma-informed psychotherapist, pursuing sex therapy certification, specializing in anxiety, shame, and relationship challenges. I have training in EMDR, IFS, DBT, and CBT.

Tiffany C. Miller

Psychologist, Ph.D.

Dr. Miller is a psychodynamically oriented psychologist with nearly 20 years of experience working with adults coping with depression, self-esteem issues, difficult life transitions and loss.

Lorraine Caputo

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R

Lorraine Caputo, LCSW has 30 years of experience as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and provides a warm and safe environment for patients who want to change how they think and feel about their lives and their relationships. She is trained in Relational Psychoanalysis, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), a short-term treatment for depression which focuses on relationships, and attachment-based EMDR. She recently published a Chapter in Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak.

Jaci Lopez Witmer

Psychologist, Psy.D.

I work with adults and young adults ages 18+ individually in my private practice. I practice from a trauma-informed, integrative perspective and draw primarily on relational, interpersonal, mindfulness, and CBT theories. My therapeutic style is open, collaborative, and nonjudgmental.

I have significant experience working with individuals across a variety of treatment settings. I have specific expertise with university students, financial professionals, health care providers, and entrepreneurs.

My office is located near Union Square. I am licensed in New York, Washington DC, and Florida, and I am registered to provide Telehealth Services to individuals residing in Vermont.