Provider Directory

Simon Bresler

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CGP

I am a warm, engaged, and emotionally attuned psychotherapist who works from an interpersonal and experiential lens. My approach integrates AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) and IFS (Internal Family Systems), and Modern Analysis to support patients in developing deeper self-understanding while facilitating meaningful emotional growth and change.

I am a bilingual therapist and offer individual and couples therapy in both English and Spanish. In addition to my individual and relational work, I am a Certified Group Psychotherapist with a strong belief in the transformative power of group therapy.

I maintain offices in New York City and just outside of Seattle.

To learn more about my work, please visit: https://GrowingWithTherapy.com/

Yaliu He

Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, Ph.D

Dr. Yaliu He is a licensed marriage and family therapist who offers therapy in English and Mandarin, virtually across the tri-state area and in person in Scarsdale. She works with individuals, couples, and families addressing mental health challenges and relationship difficulties. Dr. He is especially passionate about helping couples improve communication and emotional connection, and supporting adolescents coping with depression and anxiety by working closely with their parents.

Joni Mantell

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW, Director IAC Center, Psychotherapist

Joni S. Mantell, LCSW is a psychotherapist specializing in donor conception, adoption and infertility, with both personal and professional experience in donor conception. After more than 30 years specializing in these areas, she discovered she herself is donor conceived. She is the Founder and Director of the Infertility and Adoption Counseling Center in New Jersey and New York City, where she works with late discovery and always known donor conceived persons, recipient parents, adoptive parents, birth parents and adoptees. This unique perspective has given her a deep understanding of the lifelong identity, relational, and emotional issues in adoption and donor conception.

She holds a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a four-year Certification Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at the Post-Graduate Center for Mental Health in NYC. In addition to her family-building specialization, she works extensively with couples, performing artists, and writers.

Rene Zweig

Psychologist, Ph.D.

Dr. Zweig is a NY- and CT-licensed clinical psychologist, a Certified Cognitive Therapist, and a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist & Supervisor in private practice in Union Square. For 20 years, she has specialized in evidence-based treatments for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, body image, perfectionism, and life transitions.

Tatyana Mestechkina

Psychologist, Ph.D

Tatyana Mestechkina, Ph.D. is the Founder and Clinical Director of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Better Living. She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, practicing in New York, New Jersey and Florida.

She has particular expertise and interest in using evidence-based treatment for obsessive compulsive spectrum, anxiety disorders and women's issues. She was trained by a world-renowned expert in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP/ExRP), the gold-standard of OCD treatment. She often incorporates mindfulness and acceptance techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to supplement exposure work.

Deanna DiCostanzo

Clinical Social Work/Therapist

I am a psychotherapist who specializes in grief (including sudden/ traumatic loss), anxiety, childhood trauma, life transitions, perfectionism and more. I am trained in EMDR and IFS and utilize both of these modalities in my practice. I am the founder of Shifting Tides Therapy. I also offer grief groups, and provide supervision/consultation for EMDR, IFS, grief, trauma and more.

Amy M. Althoff

Psychoanalyst

Women need to be listened to. Therapy offers a powerful and unique space to find one's voice and become an expert at expressing needs, wants, and ideas.

Jeanne Nugent

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, DSW, PhD, CGP, CMMT

My therapeutic practice with young and mature adults uses an integrated psychodynamic approach tailored to the individual needs of each client.

Ellen Jacobs

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, Ph.D

Dr. Ellen Jacobs is a Manhattan-based psychotherapist, author and educator with more than two decades of experience. Dr. Jacobs specializes in working with adults, adolescents and children who are experiencing a range of emotional and social difficulties. Her primary goal is to help individuals and families improve the quality of their lives, increasing self- awareness and self-confidence, and helping her patients to develop and thrive.

Danielle Kwait

Master Social Worker

Danielle Kwait, LMSW, is a psychotherapist in New York City whose practice centers on the perinatal period, from fertility treatment and pregnancy through postpartum and the early years of motherhood, including postpartum depression and anxiety, pregnancy loss, and the identity shift that comes with having a child. Trained at Columbia and Mount Sinai, she works psychodynamically with a family-systems lens on how the family a woman came from shapes the one she is building. Her style is warm and direct; clients don't have to perform being fine. Telehealth across New York State; private pay, $200 per session.

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.

Samantha Wilson

Clinical Social Work/Therapist

I specialize in helping individuals who have experienced trauma, cancer/chronic illness, grief, and young adults who are undergoing life transitions, and anxiety. I also have expertise in working with healthcare providers experiencing burnout and women during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Sharon Itkoff Nacache

Art Therapist, LCAT, LPAT, ATR-BC, PMH-C

I am a perinatal art therapist supporting those who identify as caregivers--professionally or personally--in cultivating creative resilience in the workplace, throughout their family building journeys, and beyond. I am a trauma-informed, attachment-based, relational clinician with a virtual practice serving NY & NJ. I have a special focus on maternal, parental, and reproductive wellness using creative clinical approaches grounded in principles of cultural humility, humanism, and the healing power of an empathic creative process. I also provide integrative arts-based wellness workshops on site or remotely for employees in both the public and private sectors to bring creative healing spaces to work. Contact: sharon@cocreatearttherapy.com

Dan Wolfson

Psychologist, PsyD

Dr. Dan Wolfson works individually with teens and adults with a range of presenting problems from a relational framework, with a particular expertise surrounding grief and loss. In addition to his therapy practice, Dr. Wolfson is the founder of Experience Camps' Adult Grief Retreat, and served as a regional clinical director for their week-long children's grief camps from 2013-2023. Prior to launching Wolfson Therapy, he was a supervising Staff Psychologist at Rennicke & Associates in downtown Manhattan, an adjunct faculty member at the NYU Center for Counseling, and a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University's Center for Prolonged Grief, where he developed expertise in the highly effective modality of Prolonged Grief Treatment (PGT.) He has also pursued advanced training in the relational, attachment-oriented models of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).