Provider Directory

I provide psychotherapy to adult individuals and couples. My areas of special interest and expertise include perinatal mental health, concerns of older people and healing from trauma. Each client is unique, so I bring a variety of approaches to our work together, based on your needs and goals.

As a licensed psychologist, I offer my expertise in providing effective therapies for anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. My approach is interactive, solution-focused, and based on developing each person's strengths. Together, we nurture experiential shifts to deepen one's inner capacities to manage everyday challenges and stress.

I focus my practice on managing anxiety, depression, anger, relational conflict, substance abuse, personality disorders, trauma, and impulsive behavior. I specialize in populations affected by minority stress, including stigma associated with ethnic, gender, and sexual identities. I take a non-judgemental and compassionate stance with my clients. By attuning to their unique needs, I help clients understand the cause of their suffering and pain and work to help them facilitate change in pursuit of a life that feels authentic, valued, and worth living. I am fluent in English and Mandarin.

SARAH SAFFIAN, LCSW-R, MFA, is a psychotherapist, an author, and a teacher. She counsels individual adult clients and runs support groups in private practice in Manhattan and virtually. Her clinical experience also includes New York University's Counseling and Wellness Services and Spence-Chapin Services. Blending her two main areas of interest and expertise, Sarah has created a model called Therapeutic Writing, using memoir exercises, when appropriate, as a tool for encouraging reflection, processing, and discovery. Sarah earned her BA in English from Brown, her MFA in creative writing from Columbia, and her MSW from NYU. http://saffian.com

Dr. Alexis Kahan is a clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist with a private practice located downtown. She specializes in treating children, adolescents, and adults with a wide range of challenges including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, learning disabilities, relationship issues, and life transitions.

I am an experienced NY/NJ licensed integrative clinical social worker offering a trauma informed approach to treat adult individuals, couples and families. I am EMDR certified, hypnotherapy certified, and have extensive experience and training in marriage & family therapy incorporating EFT for couples, attachment based interventions and Discernment Counseling Certification for Couples. I work collaboratively and holistically with my clients to address personal and relational challenges specializing in anxiety, depression, OCD, grief, behavioral struggles as well as unresolved emotional injuries from childhood. Equally, I work with and provide support for couples & families navigating life transitions and challenges such as; parenting, health diagnosis, retirement, divorce, grief/loss, intimacy, parenting and, infidelity. I frequently work with artists, designers, writers & actors and support creative exploration and the mind/body connection as a path toward healing.

I'm an LCSW who specializes in servicing high-achieving professionals seeking to overcome low self-esteem, body image issues, eating concerns, mood difficulties, interpersonal functioning, and vocational development.

I am a clinical psychologist with an office in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, specializing in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Dr. Cecily Portillo is a licensed psychologist in private practice who practices in New York, Connecticut and FL (Telehealth certificate). Dr. Portillo is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™—specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a gold-standard treatment for: intense emotions, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, impulsive and high-risk behaviors. I currently offer adherent and comprehensive DBT to a select few individuals.

LCSW in downtown Manhattan specializing in anxiety, OCD, ADHD and relationships. I am CBT oriented but also integrate an IFS and relational approach. Many of my clients are also struggling with depression and life transitions. I also provide ERP for OCD.

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.

I provide relational, psychodynamic psychotherapy for individuals and couples navigating some of life’s most complex relational and identity questions. I specialize in supporting people through perinatal experiences, including pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, infertility, and decisions about whether or not to have children.

My private practice focuses on helping women work through the impact of anxiety, trauma, and perfectionism on their work and relationships. I approach therapy with a combination of processing and action, allowing you to put your past to rest as you make changes in how you show up with others and treat yourself. My clients typically perform well at work and show up for others while they engage in self-sabotage and neglect their own self-care.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist who focuses on treating anxiety, relationship challenges, depression, and life transitions. I offer virtual psychotherapy in New York and New Jersey for adult clients in individual and couples therapy formats.