The NY Team

Rachael offers compassionate, evidence-based therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and families. With training in both art therapy and mental health counseling, she tailors each session to your needs—whether through creative approaches or talk therapy. She  support clients with anxiety, depression, neurodiverse experiences, and parenting challenges. Her style is kind, collaborative, and focused on helping you build on your strengths to navigate life’s challenges and feel more confident in yourself and your relationships.

Kimberly uses a patient-centered approach to help her clients explore and express their emotions, thoughts, and experiences through talk and creative arts to better understand themselves, cope with life’s challenges, and achieve personal growth. Smalley collaborates with her adult & teen clients to develop individualized treatment plans and address various mental health challenges such as stress, anxiety, hyperactivity disorder, grief, and relationship conflicts. 

Eve uses  DBT, CBT and Mindfulness practices to help her clients regulate their emotions and feel grounded in their bodies. She works with both children and adults with neuro-diversity, mood related symptoms and ASD.  She utilizes both talk and creative arts to help clients better understand themselves.

Katherine's sessions are unique to each individual, so that they have the freedom to achieve their goals in the most comfortable way possible. Throughout her career, she has worked with a wide variety of communities and populations. She has experience in helping adults with anxiety, depression, grief & loss, trauma, dissociation, substance abuse, and more. Her therapeutic approach is a mixture of behavioral, psychodynamic, and humanistic.

Melissa uses a strength- based approach to support individuals navigating a wide range of life challenges- including depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship conflicts, divorce, and other major life transitions. She specializes in helping clients connect more deeply with their emotions, build self-awareness, and foster mindfulness as tools for healing and growth. With a warm and collaborative style, Melissa is passionate about helping people to recognize and utilize their innate resilience. 

Kayla Acevedo uses a person-centered approach which caters to the needs of each individual to meet everyone where they are at. Art can be used as a tool, however may not be necessary for everyone. She uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), trauma focused therapy, along with other creative modalities.

Nicole incorporates creative arts into her sessions as a calming technique, to explore the unconscious, and help clients express feelings in a healthy way. She utilizes a humanistic approach that emphasizes growth and self-actualization through being a genuine therapist who gives unconditional positive regard and understanding.

Jaclyn supports clients living with depression, anxiety, complex grief, life transitions, self-worth and esteem issues, and trauma. She offers an authentic, humanistic approach to the therapy experience. She works to provide a collaborative partnership with patients to heal and develop goals for their own personal growth.

Alissa’s therapeutic approach focuses on fostering a positive therapeutic relationship while guiding clients to access and explore a full range of emotions, both comfortable and challenging. She helps  adult clients develop strategies and provides practical tools to enhance daily life through traditional talk therapy and creative art modalities such as writing, collage, and music. 

Guadalupe Hernandez is fluent in Spanish and English. She has experience working with adults and children with depressed mood, anxiety, recovery, trauma and familial difficulties. She has worked with diverse populations across clinical and school-based settings, ensuring adaptability and expertise. She is especially compassionate and her approach is creative and person-centered.

Mila’s approach is warm, relational, and insight-oriented, grounded in psychodynamic and attachment-based theories. She creates a steady and compassionate space where clients can safely explore the roots of emotional pain, identify patterns that no longer serve them, and build a stronger connection to self. Her work is especially resonant for those navigating transitions, unresolved trauma, or a sense of disconnection. Together, she helps clients move toward greater clarity, resilience, and emotional freedom.  

Hiroko works with children and tweens with anxiety, behavioral challenges, transitions and difficult moods. She helps the children find coping skills to self-regulate and express themselves in healthy ways. She uses an eclectic art therapy approach with creative materials and play.

Kimberly is a trauma-informed therapist who uses a range of art materials to process emotional conflicts, interpersonal skills, anxiety, and improvement of expression. She creates a compassionate therapeutic environment for self-expression and healing. Her mission is to encourage personal-growth and self-empowerment in her clients.

Erica collaborates with her clients to process stress, anxiety, anger and sadness. She  provides a compassionate space to for expression.  She supports her clients young and old, with new coping skills for relationship challenges, mood regulation, self esteem and mindset. She helps clients thrive, have strong self esteem and feel peaceful.