Provider Directory

Lucia Vail, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist with offices in midtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Vail practices individual and couple therapy with adults. She has been in private practice since 2005. With extensive experience and advanced training in both the cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic traditions, Dr. Vail specializes in helping individuals who struggle in stormy relationships, those who feel lonely or isolated, and those who too often feel frustrated and disappointed by their interactions with others, including in past experiences of psychotherapy. They may have experienced trauma or other early life stress, and may feel anxious and depressed. They may have been diagnosed with mood or personality disorders.

Kara is a licensed clinical social worker trained through New York University specializing in cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, and supportive therapies. She is a SPACE-trained provider with expertise in helping parents of anxious children, as well as certified in Perinatal Mental Health. She is compassionate and a highly skilled provider who specializes in supporting women through every stage of life.

I am a psychotherapist with 15 years of experience, specializing in working with adults for individual therapy. I have extensive experience in treating anxiety, depression and relationship problems, including caring for aging parent. I offer both short- and long-term therapy, and provide tele-health sessions. Utilizing an integrative approach, I will work with you to tailor a successful plan dependent on your goals. I am a licensed clinical social worker, trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, and often integrate cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness techniques to my practice.

Hope Choman, LCSW provides therapy for adults in NY & CT navigating trauma, anxiety, and depression using an integrative, trauma-informed approach.

My goal is to support clients in building resilience and navigating life’s inevitable challenges with greater clarity and confidence. I believe therapy should be a collaborative process—personalized, respectful, and rooted in trust.
I have experience working with adults navigating anxiety, depression, relationship issues, life transitions, ADHD, career shifts, grief, and family dynamics.

I am passionate about working with adolescents, adults, and their families/support systems. I have particular specialties using research-based practices to work with individuals struggling with Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In addition to those specialties, I support clients through a wide range of challenges including, depression, stress management, relationship concerns, developing confidence and self-compassion, life transitions, and career and academic stress.
My approach to treatment is rooted in my passion for evidence-based practices including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP)

I’m a licensed clinical social worker in New York and Massachusetts and I am certified in Perinatal Mental Health by Postpartum Support International. My specialties include neurodivergence, infertility, perinatal mental health, endometriosis, anxiety, relationship challenges, and LGBTQIA+ identities. I am EMDR trained and use an integrative, collaborative approach rooted in psychodynamic and relational therapy using an attachment based lens and mind-body techniques. My work is informed by both clinical expertise and lived experience. Together, we’ll explore how your experiences are impacting you and build on your strengths to help you move toward the life you envision.

Wendy Perello, LCSW has a specialized focus on helping individuals navigate through life transitions, trauma, career-focused stress, and self-esteem challenges. As a relationship expert, Wendy works closely with those who struggle with anxious attachment and other relationship difficulties. Her holistic approach allows her to curate a combination of modalities that include mindfulness, narrative therapy and CBT.

With a concentrated focus on women's issues, Wendy incorporates the transitions women go through in relationships, careerhood, parenthood, generational caretaking, and sexual health especially perimenopause and menopause in her practice.

Wendy is also certified in Traumatic Stress Studies which critically informs her practice. Licensed in NJ, NY and MA.

I’ve devoted my 15-year career as a licensed psychologist and therapist to supporting the well-being of college students and young adults. I love helping people understand and navigate their emotions, beliefs, needs, values, and intuition so they can experience more authenticity, freedom, joy, and ease in their lives and relationships.
My other passion is supervising, training, and mentoring graduate students and early career therapists in counseling, clinical/counseling psychology, and social work.

I currently work part time in private practice (NY state - virtual only) and part time for Northwell Health as a Senior Psychologist in the counseling center of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. I have previously worked at Barnard College, Princeton University, The University of Pennsylvania, Ball State University, and on Semester at Sea's Fall 2024 voyage.

Rebecca Halperin, LCSW, is an experienced psychotherapist specialized in integrating psychodynamic psychotherapy with Somatic Experiencing and other body based approaches to treatment. Rebecca works primarily with individuals who have experienced trauma - historically/developmentally or recently - as well as individuals facing other stressors and symptoms. Rebecca has fifteen years in the mental health field working with all ages from preschool to geriatric; currently she primarily treats adolescents and adults.

I work with adults to relieve suffering, to develop resilience, and to enhance their ability to experience high-level well-being. Specialty areas include anxiety; stress; obsessive-compulsive challenges; creativity blocks; life transitions; self-management for chronic diseases; and adjunctive-to-medical approaches to cancer, during and after treatment. I use an integrative approach tailored to the needs, abilities, and interests of each patient or couple.

The focus of my practice is treating attachment trauma in both individuals and couples. I am certified in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples and trained in EMDR, with a focus on treating relational trauma using AF-EMDR and ego state interventions. I love mindfulness-based cognitive therapies like DBT and ACT and incorporate skills to help clients become better able to cope with life's daily challenges and stay regulated as we work on deeper healing.

Karen Perlman, LCSW is a seasoned clinician, with over 3 decades of experience, who works with individuals, couples, families and groups. Her early training from NYU Silverman School of Social Work, and Ackerman Institute for the Family informed her treatment as a family systems therapist. In more recent years, she has incorporated an evidenced based approach using CBT to treat depression and anxiety, as well as a relationship model that helps her clients disentangle from power struggles and learn skills for more effective communication. Professionally trained as an ADHD coach, she often uses coaching in combination with CBT for her clients with executive function challenges. With expertise as an integrative nutrition coach, she naturally employs a holistic approach to her understanding and treatment of a variety of emotional and health oriented issues. Currently, she is deepening her expertise in helping patients with OCD using Exposure Response Prevention (ERP). She is guided by her keen intuition and strong knowledge base in a variety of therapies, deep empathy and sense of humor, when helping her clients achieve their therapeutic goals and ultimate potential. As a therapist with a disability, she has a deep appreciation for life's challenges, pain, loss and suffering and has learned the art of "transforming obstacles into opportunities,"

Audrey Reichman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist whose broad mission is to promote emotional wellbeing in her patients. Dr. Reichman enjoys actively helping adolescents and adults to self-reflect and gain insight. She treats all kinds of concerns, including depression, anxiety, loss, life transitions, career, school, relationship and self-esteem difficulties. She has a speciality in helping women through the prenatal and postpartum period.