Provider Directory

Julia L. Pressman

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

I am a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in New York City, providing relational psychodynamic therapy to adults and adolescents. I have a special interest in working with students and emerging adults, and specialize in the treatment of anxiety and self esteem issues, relationships, identity exploration, and life transitions.

Ash Martin

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Ash Martin, LCSW is a graduate of Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work. She graduated from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies three-year Trauma Treatment Program where she was also certified in EMDR.

Justine Duhr

Psychoanalyst

I'm a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst specializing in anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and creative blocks. I hold a master's degree in creative writing from Emerson College and bring to my work as a therapist a decade of professional writing, editing, and writing coaching. I consider myself a relational/interpersonal analyst, having completed my psychoanalytic training at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. I see both individuals and couples, and offer treatment at one, two, or three sessions per week.

Adi Avivi

Psychologist

I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Certified Group Psychotherapist in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Before establishing my own private practice, I worked as an assistant professor and supervising clinical psychologist at Columbia University Medical Center and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I completed my post-doctoral fellowship at Long Island Jewish Medical Center – Zucker Hillside Hospital. I received my doctorate in clinical psychology from Long Island University – Post and completed my internship at Kings County Hospital Center.

Sari Cooper

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, AASECT Sex Therapist, LCSW-R, AASECT Supervisor, Media Expert, Writer

Sari Cooper is Founder and Director of The Center for Love and Sex in NYC, she’s a licensed individual & couples therapist and an AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, sex coach, writer, Educator, supervisor and media expert. She and her team of therapists at CLS specialize in working on issues such as sexual disorders, sexual avoidance, discrepant desire, couples communication, affairs, separation, depression, anxiety, non-monogamy and alternative sexual interests.
Ms. Cooper is nationally recognized as a relationship and sexuality expert and has been a regular commentator on television shows like CBS This Morning, and Dr. Oz to discuss relationship issues. Sari is the host of Sex Esteem® with Sari Cooper on Youtube and offers private Sex Esteem groups to women and parents on the topic of sexuality. Her blog Sex Esteem can be found on her site, and she is a featured writer for HuffPost and PsychToday. Sari is continually called upon to discuss issues in modern relationships in the press including The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Greatest, Vice, Bustle, Cosmo, Men’s Health, Shape, Brides Magazine, Barron’s, New York Post, and Marie Claire. Her website is now www.centerforloveandsex.com.

May Steinberg

Mental Health Counselor

May is a prelicensed professional who works with adults, centering intersectional identities in her work, and is committed to honoring the complexities that they hold within a white-centered, patriarchal society. Despite the seriousness of this mission, she is quick to find humor in all things and, through experience, uses it as a tool to explore injustice, emotions, and even trauma. She is trauma-informed and uses a client-centered approach that prioritizes the strength of the therapeutic relationship as a route to emotional tolerance and positive change.

Brannan Piper

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Hello. I am a LCSW who has been practicing for 30 years and prides herself on maintaining a safe, non judgmental environment in which people are free to share their struggles. I specialize in numerous areas but at this time I am focusing on Bipolar disorder. I work closely with a gifted psychiatrist to support my work. I studied for 5 years at PPSC where I was groomed psychoanalytically.

Amanda Itzkoff

Psychiatrist, MD

Dr. Amanda Itzkoff is the Medical Director of NYC Private Psychiatry and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Itzkoff has been deemed a Top 10 Doctor by Vitals(2014) and earned numerous Most Compassionate Doctor(2010-2016) and Patients’ Choice Awards(2008-2017) throughout her career.
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Dr. Itzkoff treats patients with psychotherapy, medication, and interventional treatments including TMS and ketamine (not all of these modalities may be appropriate pregnant women, or those who are trying to conceive). Dr. Itzkoff works with patients who are suffering from PMADs as well as patients who have suffered miscarriage(s) and those struggling with infertility and undergoing ART including IVF.

Lucia Vail

Psychologist, PhD

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.

Shira Danzig

Psychologist, Ph.D., PMH-C

Shira Danzig, Ph.D., PMH-C is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Scarsdale, NY, specializing in perinatal mental health, dating and relationships, and anxiety and depression. She is also the co-founder of River Psychology Group. Dr. Danzig offers in-person sessions in Scarsdale and telehealth throughout New York State.

Suzi Tortora

Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Ed.D., BC-DMT, LCAT, LMHC

I am a NYS Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT). Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), National Certified Counselor (NCC), and Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), author and lecturer. In 2003, I created and continue to be the senior dance/movement therapist for pediatric patients at Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY. In private practice for almost 40 years, I developed and am director of Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC [www.dancingdialogue.com] a private creative arts psychotherapy practice with offices in Cold Spring, NY and NYC, specializing in the role of nonverbal communication and the body-mind-emotion connection. Collectively, our art, dance, and couples/family therapists focus on themes related to all aspects of the parent-infant attachment relationship from conception to postpartum; early parent-infant attachment; parenting in the digital age; sensory processing difficulties; ADHD; autism; child/teen and family dynamics; trauma; pediatric medical illness; adult chronic pain; grief and loss.

Keara Mageras

Psychologist, Psy.D.

Dr. Keara Mageras is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York City who works with adults navigating anxiety, relationship difficulties, and significant life and career transitions. She practices integratively, drawing on a range of evidence-based approaches—including CBT, DBT, ACT, and psychodynamic therapy—tailored to each person. At the center of her work is the therapeutic relationship itself, which she sees not as a backdrop to change but as the very thing that makes it possible.

Mallory Dimler

Psychologist, Ph.D

I am a licensed clinical psychologist with 10+ years experience treating eating disorders. I also have specialties in anxiety disorders and maternal mental health. I practice from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework, while also drawing from a feminist perspective. Clients often describe me as warm, patient, and humorous.

Yana Elbert

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC-D, LPC

Yana Elbert is a licensed psychotherapist who is psychodynamically-oriented and is integrative in her approach. She provides in-person and virtual therapy.