Provider Directory

Karen Perlman, LCSW is a seasoned clinician, with over 3 decades of experience, who works with individuals, couples, families and groups. Her early training from NYU Silverman School of Social Work, and Ackerman Institute for the Family informed her treatment as a family systems therapist. In more recent years, she has incorporated an evidenced based approach using CBT to treat depression and anxiety, as well as a relationship model that helps her clients disentangle from power struggles and learn skills for more effective communication. Professionally trained as an ADHD coach, she often uses coaching in combination with CBT for her clients with executive function challenges. With expertise as an integrative nutrition coach, she naturally employs a holistic approach to her understanding and treatment of a variety of emotional and health oriented issues. Currently, she is deepening her expertise in helping patients with OCD using Exposure Response Prevention (ERP). She is guided by her keen intuition and strong knowledge base in a variety of therapies, deep empathy and sense of humor, when helping her clients achieve their therapeutic goals and ultimate potential. As a therapist with a disability, she has a deep appreciation for life's challenges, pain, loss and suffering and has learned the art of "transforming obstacles into opportunities,"

Carol Bloom LCSW, PC is a psychotherapist in private practice in the West Village. She is also co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre Institute where she is on the board, faculty and is a supervisor. She has expertise in eating and body based symptoms as well as analytically oriented psychodynamic and relational treatment. She is co- author of Eating Problems and numerous articles pertaining to Women's psychological issues.

I am a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst working in the Grand Central area. I work with adults with histories of traumatic events and/or relationships, with members of the LGBTQ+, Kink, and Sex Positive communities, with people working in the creative arts, with those needing help with disenfranchised bereavement, and with the special needs of those who have a service animal or emotional support animal.

Batya Novick, LCSW specializes in in fertility and couples therapy. Batya founded The Calla Collective to be a destination of expertise around reproductive and relational health, to provide a sense of understanding, support and guidance.

I help people understand and overcome their struggles and lead more satisfying lives.

I am a licensed clinical social worker with nearly a decade of experience now based in Brooklyn. I work with adults, couples and families navigating relational difficulties, substance misuse, and life-cycle transitions. I also maintain special interests in working with clients facing medical challenges as well as with clients who identify as health care providers themselves. My style is warm as well as direct, and I often use humor and metaphor to connect with my clients.

I hold a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Columbia University School of Social Work and completed a 4-year post-master’s training program in couples and family therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. My undergraduate degree is in English Literature and History from Swarthmore College.

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.

Welcome! My name is Avigail and I am a trauma informed therapist with a strong emphasis on attachment work. I strive to make my environment safe and warm for every person who walks in. We go at your own pace. You are the master of your own life!

I work with individual adolescents (12-18) and adults (18+) struggling with a wide range of mental health or life struggles including:

Anxiety
Depression
Complex PTSD
Peer, family, and relationship conflict
Bullying
Life transitions
Codependency
Self-esteem

I also have a lot of experience with the orthodox Jewish community.

I am a relational therapist and specialize in exploring patterns that come from our families of origin, relationships with ourselves, with our friends, romantic partners, and children, as well as relationships with food and substances. I tailor treatment to each client’s unique needs by incorporating modalities such as Internal Family Systems, psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic work, CBT, DBT, and mindfulness. Regardless of approach, what is transformative in therapy occurs in the relational dynamic.

I am a board-certified drama psychotherapist and licensed creative arts therapist with over 30 years of experience; I specialize in working with children, adolescents, and adults with developmental trauma and do parent coaching. I created a drama therapy method that has been used in schools with thousands of youth with behavioral challenges. I have published in journals for psychotherapy and am presently completing a book about working with youth with trauma. I live and work in New York City. I do in-person and online therapy

Anastasia Zankowsky, LCSW specializes in working with grief, trauma and PTSD, chronic and/or life-limiting illness, and LGBTQIA identities. Her practice is virtual and includes individuals and relationships/dyads. Anastasia works through a framework that is relational and strengths-based, and is LGBQA, trans, poly, and kink affirmative.

I am a bilingual and bicultural therapist in the state of New York. I have been seeing clients for over 15 years. Before starting my private practice, I worked with a diverse set of clients in various clinical settings: college counseling, outpatient substance abuse program, crisis call center, and hospitals.
I support young women going through major life transitions such as
starting a relationship or dealing with the breakup, having work-related
stress, climbing the career ladders, becoming an entrepreneur, or getting
through the competitive graduate school.
I also provide support to millennial women who are in various stages of
parenthood journey: dealing with infertility, healing after a miscarriage,
experience anxiety about becoming pregnant or experiencing postpartum
anxiety and depression.

I am a mental health counselor serving adults 18-90+ in New York and Florida. I offer individual, family, and group therapy for bereavement, medical trauma, caregiver burnout, religious trauma, and trauma from experiences in higher education.

Evelyn Gama is an LCSW treating adults and young children. Evelyn's specialties include pregnancy and postpartum, infertility, life transitions, anxiety and depression. Evelyn specializes in supporting families of children with special needs and families who have experienced perinatal loss or a NICU stay. Evelyn's practice is primarily virtual at this time.