Provider Directory

Jennifer Dembo

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

I'm a reproductive social worker with 20+ years of experience employing integrative support to diverse populations in a variety of settings (home, birth center, hospital, agency, medical center, clinical practice, etc.). I specialize in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Fertility Issues, Birth Trauma, Loss, Sexual Pain/Dysfunction and Peri/Menopause.

Jill Giornelli

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

I work with adults navigating life transitions and struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, perfectionism, and shame. I also specialize in helping people make peace with their bodies and heal their relationships with food and exercise.

Michelle Humi

Psychologist

Dr. Michelle Humi , a New York State licensed clinical psychologist, provides a warm and empathetic approach to her individual therapy sessions with preteens, adolescents, young adults, and adults. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety, depression, mood difficulties, learning challenges, and relationship issues. She also has expertise in therapeutic parenting work, which enables her to effectively improve family dynamics and child behavior. Dr. Humi builds rapport and a collaborative partnership with her clients, making them feel both comfortable and truly understood while integrating Cognitive Behavioral and psychodynamic therapeutic techniques.

Sofia Frank

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R

I am a psychotherapist working with adults and teens with anxiety, depression and eating disorders. I utilize CBT, DBT and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Danielle Shelov

Psychologist

Dr. Shelov earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Her doctoral research was one of the pioneer clinical studies (2008) that examined the importance of yoga on both mindfulness and emotional well-being. During her training, she worked at Montefiore Hospital, Bellevue Hospital, Columbia Psychiatric Institute, and completed her APA Internship at Maimonides Medical Center. Prior to starting a private practice, Danielle worked at Columbus Park Collaborative: Day Treatment Center for Eating Disorders. Danielle frequently lectures on eating disorder treatment to other mental health professionals.
Dr. Shelov also specializes in couples work, utilizing her EFT and systems trainings.

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.

Alison Brown

Psychologist, Ph.D.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist and have been in the private practice of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and supervision for 25 years. I have an extensive background in group work, substance misuse, and eating disorders, but over the years have transitioned to a focus on working with writers, artists, actors, dancers, playwrights, and other creative types. Another concentration in my clinical work involves psychodynamic and practical approaches to ADHD and broad autism phenotype. My clinical approach integrates a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives with DBT and other skills-based modalities.

In addition to my private practice, I am an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at CUMC, and have been a long-term Faculty and Executive Committee member at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. At the Center, I have held a number of leadership and curriculum development roles, including Chair of the Psychology Division, Director of Externship Training, and most recently, Curriculum Co-chair and Co-chair of the post-Freud theory courses. I am also on the editorial boards of JAPA and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

Anna Eckhardt

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R

Certified EMDR therapist and Consultant in Training, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (September 2022), Certified in Clinical Hypnosis, trained in IFS and SP. Offices in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Amanda Smith

Art Therapist, LCAT, ATR-BC

Helping women navigate life transition, career changes, stress and anxiety.

Claudia P. Diez

Psychologist, PhD

I am a Board Certified Clinical Psychologist in independent practice with offices in Midtown West, Carnegie Hall area.
I practice individual and couples psychotherapy (integrative approach informed by multiple theoretical and empirical frames), clinical and forensic psychometric evaluations and executive coaching.

Sarah Klagsbrun

Psychiatrist, MD DFAPA DFAACAP

I am the Medical Director of Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, NY. I am also a board-certified child and adolescent and adult psychiatrist.

Andrea Gitter

Licensed Creative Art Therapist, MA,LCAT,BC-DMT

I am on the Board and Faculty of Women's Therapy Centre Institute.
I treat individuals, groups and couples. I offer supervision, professional consultation. I specialize in eating and body image issues, psychosomatic conditions, adoption issues, general practice.
Co-author Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model (Basic 1994).

Dawn M. Hughes

Psychologist, PhD, ABPP

Dawn M. Hughes is a clinical and forensic psychologist who specializes in the anxiety disorders, interpersonal violence, PTSD, traumatic stress, and women's mental health.

Melanie E. Schwarz MD FACLP

Psychiatrist, M.D.

Melanie Schwarz, M.D. is a private practice psychiatrist focused on reproductive psychiatry and the psychology and medical treatment of women. She has lengthy and diverse experience with patients in this arena dealing with reproductive depression, anxiety, and other issues. 
Additionally, Dr. Schwarz has a history of treating patients with chronic illness such as MS.