Provider Directory

Melissa Walker is a psychotherapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in New York City, practicing in New York and via telehealth in Vermont, Iowa, and Florida. Melissa has been practicing for over fifteen years with individuals, couples, and groups.

I am a trauma-focused therapist who works with children, adolescents and adults. I am licensed in NY, NJ and CT. My training and certifications include EMDR, IFS (Internal Family Systems), CBT, DBT, Nonviolent Communication, RLT, and Sandplay Therapy. I am also oriented towards treating chronic pain or dizziness through the mind/body approach, Nervous System Reset.

Together, we will work to increase insight, emotional safety and self-compassion to heal the traumatic wounds that keep you from living your life to its fullest.

Dr. Castro is a clinical child psychologist specializing in anxiety, ADHD, and emotional and behavioral dysregulation in youth. She provides individual therapy, parent-child therapy, and parent coaching in NYC.

I help highly sensitive adult children of narcissists recover from gaslighting and trust their intuition, to make decisions from a place of personal sovereignty and wisdom.

I am a clinical psychologist who has extensive training in evidence-based psychotherapies, including CBT, ACT, EFT, and Mindfulness-based approaches. In addition to mood and anxiety disorders, I specialize in couples therapy (Certified EFT Therapist) and eating disorders/disordered eating treatment.

Tatyana Mestechkina, Ph.D. is the Founder and Clinical Director of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Better Living. She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, practicing in New York, New Jersey and Florida.

She has particular expertise and interest in using evidence-based treatment for obsessive compulsive spectrum, anxiety disorders and women's issues. She was trained by a world-renowned expert in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP/ExRP), the gold-standard of OCD treatment. She often incorporates mindfulness and acceptance techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to supplement exposure work.

Lindsay Nejmeh, LMHC | Lindsay is a graduate of the Manhattan College Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling program. Since 2010, she has worked in a variety of settings pertaining to women’s mental health. Lindsay specializes in women's, maternal, and perinatal mental health. Additionally, she holds expertise in familial trauma and relationship issues. Currently, she maintains her private practice in lower Manhattan. She uses a variety of modalities including attachment focused, psychodynamic, relational, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, and mindfulness techniques. Lindsay is a bilingual therapist, serving both Spanish and English speaking clientele.

Interactive and collaborative, psychodynamically-informed, empirically-based psychologist specializing in college/graduate populations and adult life transitions.

Joann Paley Galst, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in New York City specializing in cognitive-behavioral therapy. She also specializes in reproductive health issues including infertility and pregnancy loss.

Dr. Kafker specializes in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), which helps families strengthen relationships and teaches caregivers to be the therapist at home and effectively manage their young children's difficult behaviors. In addition to PCIT, she is highly experienced with and passionate about working with adolescents and adults to manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, and trauma.

I am a Psychotherapist working in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Through a combination of verbal psychotherapy, art therapy, and EMDR, I cater my approach to each individual's unique needs.

Dr. Terri Bacow is a psychologist in Manhattan, NY. She specializes in treating anxiety, depression, and ADHD, as well as in working with college students and parents (including new mothers). She is an expert in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

I primarily use psychodynamic, systemic, experiential and culturally sensitive approaches to accompany the client throughout the journey of self discovery. With emphasis on awareness and insight, I encourage individuals and couples to seek solutions that resonate with their individual and relational needs. The struggle to overcome adverse experiences, can be a product of sociocultural system, family context, early attachment and relationships which reflect a stigmatized idea of self.

Dr. Tennenbaum received her PhD in psychology from Fordham University and completed her internship at Columbia University Medical Center, NY Presbyterian Hospital before entering private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She has been working with men and women in different areas of psychology for over 10 years. Dr. Tennenbaum has experience working in outpatient mental health clinics, an inpatient psychiatric unit, a psychiatric emergency room, and private practice. Her private practice work ranges from general psychotherapy to her specialties in reproductive health and personality disorders.
Dr. Tennenbaum’s therapeutic approach is integrative and solution focused. Through her psychodynamic as well as dialectical and cognitive behavioral training, she is able to provide clients with a range of treatments.
Dr. Tennenbaum provides individual long and short-term psychotherapy, couples therapy, group therapy, and skills training. She is dedicated to her clients and committed to building a therapeutic relationship that will allow individuals to feel empowered and find acceptance and growth.
During my clinical internship at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, she was trained in Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT). She then focused her post- doctorate hours in a DBT private practice, joining a consultation team of DBT experts. She lead ‘DBT skills groups’ and had individual DBT supervision. She has seen numerous DBT clients in my private practice and helped many of them build a ‘life worth living’ through skills group and intense individual treatment. Clients who find DBT helpful often note how they never realized how powerful accepting reality is and that they are thankful to have appropriate skills to help them cope with their painful emotions and difficult relationships. She currently runs a DBT skills group and see clients individually for DBT informed treatment.
Dr. Tennenbaum specialties include: pregnancy loss, high-risk pregnancy, infertility, baby blues, post-partum depression, depression and anxiety. She also treat people with borderline personality disorder through Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
Dr. Tennenbaum has presented at prominent conferences across the country and has been published in journals and books.