Provider Directory

Dr. Ivy Love Margulies is a licensed clinical psychologist and hypnotherapist who specializes in grief, loss, and trauma encompassing the entire spectrum of a woman’s reproductive and maternal mental health. This includes postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, birth trauma, NICU, pre-term labor, miscarriage, infertility, terminations for fetal anomaly or medical reasons (TFMR), stillbirth, infant death, high risk pregnancy, and pregnancy after loss. Dr. Ivy has a unique way of blending psychotherapy, trauma informed mindfulness, somatic therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, ritual, reiki energy healing, and guided meditations to help facilitate and support women, couples and families. She also facilitates several support groups for women and couples for infertility, miscarriage, birth trauma, termination for medical reasons, pregnancy after loss, pregnancy after 40 years old, and a stillbirth couples group.

My eclectic therapeutic approach draws from my background as a social worker as well as my training in relational psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and family/marital therapy. While thinking about the person and their environment I focus on the present and revisit the past in order to better understand how it affects one’s current life.

I have been in private practice for 25+ years working with high-achieving adults to help them improve relationships, manage stress, and realize potential. Issues we may address in our work together may include anxiety, depression, divorce, trauma, burnout, relationships, parenting, career advancement, and major life decisions. My style is collaborative; I take a psychodynamic approach that flexibly incorporates strategies from CBT, IFS, EMDR, mindfulness, and positive psychology. My background includes a Wharton MBA, and I have experience with many successful professionals of diverse backgrounds working in finance and healthcare.

Dr. Cristina Dorazio is a bi-lingual (English and Italian) New York State licensed psychologist. At her private practice, Unity Psychological Consulting, PLLC, she provides individual and couples therapy to adults who are navigating a variety of chronic health concerns related to their reproductive health. She also provides DE&I consultation to a multitude of companies, organizations and hospitals that are committed to fostering healthy work environments. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University and has published in the Encyclopedia of Counseling as well as Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Dr. Dorazio was recently nominated as a “Best in New York Magazine” top doctor and has contributed her professional insights to various media outlets such as: Huffington Post, Woman’s Day and Brain and Life magazine.

Dr. Miller is a psychodynamically oriented psychologist with nearly 20 years of experience working with adults coping with depression, self-esteem issues, difficult life transitions and loss.

Dr. Vikas Gupta is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health, holistic wellness, and integrative care. With dual training in adult and child/adolescent psychiatry, he brings a nuanced understanding of mental health across the lifespan. He holds four board certifications, including in obesity medicine and community/public psychiatry. Dr. Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Wellness Psychiatry, a private practice dedicated to empowering women through compassionate, evidence-based care. His expertise includes treating depression, anxiety, trauma, postpartum disorders, and stress-related conditions unique to women’s lives. He has held leadership roles in national psychiatric organizations and contributed to major educational and clinical initiatives. A former Harvard Medical School faculty member, he integrates academic rigor with a warm, patient-centered approach. He is passionate about providing culturally attuned care for diverse women, including professionals, creatives, mothers, and caregivers. In addition to clinical work, he advocates for holistic and lifestyle-based interventions to support women’s emotional resilience. Dr. Gupta is honored to be part of the Women’s Mental Health Consortium and committed to advancing mental health equity for all women.

I am a clinical psychologist-psychoanalyst in private practice in Tribeca. I work with individuals ranging in age from young to older adulthood and have particular expertise in treating mother-daughter enmeshment. My approach is a blend of mindfulness and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I supervise, teach on the interface of spirituality with psychoanalysis, have published papers and presented internationally.

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.

Dr. Brackman is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York City. She works with adults seeking to address the impact of major life changes, loss, and trauma on their sense of self and relationships.

I am trained in both the Gottman Method for Couples Therapy and Collaborative Couples Therapy, two evidence-based approaches that equip me with the tools to help couples communicate more effectively. I aim to help couples feel heard and understood, have better conversations, and create space for compromise. Together, we work on strengthening their connection, friendship, trust, and intimacy and rediscovering play and fun. These relationship skills also benefit my individual clients, as the same principles apply to personal growth and emotional health.

Justena believes that therapy is the most effective way to create profound, lasting change and a life richer in meaning and fulfillment. She will help you identify and transcend the barriers holding you back, and empower you in your journey.

I am passionate about supporting you to be free from fear and anxiety, align to inner guidance, develop nourishing relationships, and make choices from a place of love, curiosity, and possibility. I’ve supported individuals struggling with anxiety, panic, life transitions, relationship issues, and questions of meaning and purpose.

My experience as a therapist includes working with recently immigrated youth, high school and college students, and individuals of all ages, identities, and backgrounds in community mental health. Before training as a therapist, I worked in international women’s rights, food justice, and bilingual education. I draw from psychodynamic, relational, somatic, mindfulness, and compassion-based approaches.

As a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey and New York, I specialize in providing compassionate and effective therapy to adolescents, adults, and parents. With a focus on DBT, CBT, and ACT, I support clients facing challenges such as anxiety disorders, depression, emotion regulation, interpersonal relationships, and life transitions. My approach is rooted in creating a safe, collaborative space where individuals can explore their feelings and develop the skills necessary for lasting change. I am dedicated to helping my clients build resilience and achieve their personal goals.

My career in mental health as a licensed psychologist spans more than 25 years and includes various professional roles which include running my private practice, working as a university professor, and at different points, as a clinician, clinical supervisor or director in various NYC hospitals, schools, and community clinics. My professional background of direct service, scholarly work, and teaching at the graduate and doctoral level has given me a well-rounded perspective when working alongside my patients. I feel fortunate that due to my training I can provide the most effective, cutting edge, and evidence-based techniques to my patients. I work hard to empower individuals to effectively reach their goals and gain insight into what is most concerning them. On a personal level, I am multilingual and multicultural, and I often work with clients who are navigating the intersections of their various identities related to their family of origin, culture, and religion, as well as their race, gender and sexual identity. My style is warm, down-to-earth, direct and interactive. I work with children, adolescents, and adults of all ages, either in person or through virtual sessions. I work with couples as well as individuals.