Provider Directory

Charlene Zhen

Master Social Worker, LMSW

I’m a psychodynamic therapist based in Manhattan working with high achieving adults and couples. Many of my clients are Asian American and adult children of immigrants navigating cultural expectations, identity questions, and relationship patterns. I previously worked in tech startups and understand the pressures of performance driven environments.

Batya Srolovitz

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

I am a psychotherapist with almost a decade of experience treating couples and adults. I integrate psychodynamic therapy, CBT, logotherapy, and mindfulness. I specialize in relationship dynamics, addiction, anxiety, grief, eating disorders, and trauma, and am a certified Intuitive Eating Counselor.

Jessie Chasan-Taber

Master Social Worker, LMSW

I work with individuals and couples on exploring underlying patterns, unresolved conflicts, and deep-seated emotional concerns that have been causing distress in their relationships with themselves and others.

Shefali Samrai

Psychologist, Ph.D.

Out of network.
Therapeutic modalities: Integrative: Cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic (short-term and long-term psychotherapy).
Specializations: Anxiety disorders. Mood disorders. Identity issues. Relationship issues. Major life transitions. Trauma. Perinatal and menopausal mental health.
Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati

Caryn Rothauser

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CGP

Caryn Rothauser, LCSW-CGP has been working as a psychotherapist with individuals, couples and groups for 20 years. She earned an MSW from New York University and holds post-graduate certificates in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from the National Institute of the Psychotherapies, Couples and Family Therapy from the Ackerman Institute for the Family, and Modern Analytic Group Therapy from the Center for Group Studies. Caryn is a regular presenter at EGPS in Manhattan, PAGPS in Philadelphia and at the Center for Group Studies, and enjoys providing individual and group supervision for both new and experienced clinicians. 

Gina Della Penna

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC

Providing teletherapy to individuals (18 yo +) in NY, I primarily help those struggling with anxiety, stress, low-self esteem, and life transitions. I work with adults across the lifespan and have a specialty working with young adults. Having worked in a college counseling center for several years, I have a great deal of experience helping emerging adults navigate coming into their own while managing the challenges that accompany that stage of life.

Victoria Blumberg

Psychoanalyst, LP, LCAT

As a psychodynamic, trauma-informed therapist and psychoanalyst, I offer a space to explore relationships and the roles one plays in them, honoring strengths and uncovering the meanings that underlie challenging areas. Goals would include connecting thoughts and emotions, to enhance insight into how one moves through one's life and to increase healthier coping skills to stressors. I value diversity including but not limited to race, religion, sexuality, gender, and culture, working to understand how these aspects of identity influence a person’s experience of themselves, to provide an environment that fosters continuous growth in all areas of being.

Melanie Love

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Melanie Love is Columbia-trained clinical psychologist specializing in working with men, relationship issues, self-esteem, anxiety, and substance use. From her years in university mental health, she particularly enjoys working with college and graduate students or other young adults navigating the transition into career. She practices from a psychodynamic and relational lens while integrating skills as needed to help build confidence and self-worth, create more fulfilling relationships, and develop ways to cope with difficult emotions.

Andrew J. Gerber

Psychiatrist, MD, PhD

Dr. Gerber is a child and adolescent psychiatrist whose career combines his work as a clinician, scholar, research scientist and executive. He completed his medical and psychiatric training at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital and Weill Cornell and Columbia medical schools; he completed his PhD in psychology at University College London and the Anna Freud Centre.

Prior to joining Silver Hill, Dr. Gerber was Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia Medical Center and Medical Director and CEO of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Among his many affiliations, he serves as associate clinical professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and as associate clinical professor at the Child Study Center, Yale University.

Erica Silberstein

Psychologist

Dr. Erica Silberstein is a New York State licensed clinical psychologist.
After completing her doctorate at Yeshiva University, she continued to specialize in OCD and anxiety disorders in private practice, as well as serving as an adjunct assistant professor at Yeshiva University. Dr. Silberstein has specialized training in many evidence-based therapies, including traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and compassion-focused therapy (CFT). She has extensive experience using evidence-based treatment therapies to treat a range of psychological problems, with an emphasis on cultivating greater psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and well-being.

Ayla Sitt

Psychologist

I am a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in using cognitive-behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy to help individuals struggling with anxiety disorders, depression, OCD, low self-esteem, and perinatal issues. I enjoy helping people effectively cope with difficult life transitions and most recently have enjoyed focusing on women's health issues, especially perinatal issues and the transition to motherhood. I believe in working collaboratively with my clients to help them develop and work towards their goals, with a focus on building a more satisfying and rewarding life.

Kara Grayson

Clinical Social Work/Therapist

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.

Jocelyn W. Charnas

Psychologist, Ph.D.

Dr. Charnas is in private practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She treats young adults and adults with depression, anxiety, social, occupational, and interpersonal difficulties, relationship and adjustment problems, phase-of-life issues, and maladaptive behaviors. Dr. Charnas is active, relatable, and directive, emphasizing patient strengths and adaptive functioning. Treatment is focused on the here-and-now, but historical experiences and relationships are explored with the purpose of gaining insight into present conflicts.

Emma Cooper-Serber

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MPH

I am a clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience working directly with tweens, teens, adults, and couples. In addition to my individual work, I run groups for people going through divorce/separations, and I provide workshops on a variety of sexual health issues.