Provider Directory

Lisa Wallner Samstag is a licensed clinical psychologist, a psychoanalyst, and a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. In addition to her clinical practice of adult psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy supervision/consultation, Dr. Samstag conducts research on psychotherapy process-outcome and personality-developmental issues. Dr. Samstag received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the City University of New York (1998), and her Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the William Alanson White Institute (2009). She is also a graduate of Queen’s University (B.A. Honors in Psychology, 1986) and the University of Toronto (Institute of Child Study, Dip.C.S., 1988). Dr. Samstag has been on faculty in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at LIU-Brooklyn since 1999, where she is currently Director of Psychotherapy Research.

I am a licensed mental health counselor proving virtual therapy in NY. I specialize in working with young adults and adults who are struggling with anxiety, perfectionism, depression and with difficulties in their relationships. My therapeutic style is supportive, non-judgmental and compassionate. My approach to therapy is both insight oriented and intervention based to help individuals get to the root of their problems, to better understand themselves and to learn skills to be able to better manage their symptoms in the moment.

I am a clinical psychologist who works from psychodynamic and systems perspectives. I work with adults, couples and families. I have extensive experience with eating issues, childhood sexual abuse, mood disorders and relationship issues.

I provide LGBTQ+ affirming, intersectionally-informed and trauma-informed therapy.

I provide gender-affirming support for transgender and nonbinary individuals and their families, trauma care and therapy for couples and families facing difficulties in their relationships.

I help parents and professionals use neuroscience and the latest evidence based practices to overcome sleep difficulties , anxiety , panic, adhd, as well as perinatal + postpartum mood and anxiety disorders.

I am a board certified adult and child psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of anxiety, mood, attentional and behavioral disorders. I provide initial diagnostic psychiatric evaluation and medication management when indicated.

I take a family-based integrated care approach, working collaboratively with families to identify the individual’s strengths. Additionally, I have clinical and research expertise in anxiety disorders. I have published in the the Journal of American Academy of Dermatology and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. I served as Chief Resident at the Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program.

Chloe Ifrah, Ph.D. is experienced in delivering evidence-based treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy (for multiple disorders) and dialectical behavior therapy in both outpatient and inpatient settings focusing on life transitions, mood and anxiety disorders, interpersonal difficulties, emotion dysregulation, self-harm behaviors, and severe mental illness such as psychosis. Together with the client, we enhance the quality of your life through evidenced based treatments.

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.

I am a reproductive psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health. I work with women who face emotional and psychiatric difficulties throughout the female lifecycle. Areas of interest include treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period, PMDD, mood issues associated with the perimenopause, and emotional issues related to infertility treatment. I have a private practice with offices in Mount Kisco NY and Manhattan NY.

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 am a licensed clinical social worker now based in New York, but I originally come from the south! Hailing from Atlanta, GA, I received my undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Georgia then headed over to the University of Texas at Austin for my Master's of Social Work (MSW) where I then began my clinical career. I am now a psychotherapist at Tate Psychotherapy in Lower Manhattan.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist trained to treat mood disorders, life transitional issues, relationship problems and help understand and recognize unhealthy life patterns. Together we work on treating the problem, recognize the effects it has on your life and working toward a different more effective experience.

I specialize in working with women experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship issues, difficult life transitions, infertility, grief and loss. I have extensive experience working with caregivers of family members with dementia/Alzheimer's disease. My approach is empathic, interactive and supportive. I have advanced training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I also integrate other treatment modalities to meet the therapeutic needs of each person. I work both long and short term, and foster a therapeutic environment of safety, honesty and integrity that facilitates positive change.