OUR TEAM
Meet Our Therapists
Compassionate, creative care from clinicians who meet you where you are.
New Jersey Team
Clinical Supervisor
MA, ATR-BCS, LCAT, LPAT
Beth is an expert in developmental challenges at each stage of life. She provides parental guidance and helps children and teens express themselves. In her work with adults, Beth is a compassionate professional, highly trained in bereavement counseling, anxiety, losses, and medical conditions. She supports her clients working through anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and trauma. She has many years of experience in hospital settings in pediatric and palliative care.
Art Therapist & Professional Counselor
MA, LPC, ATR-BC, LAAT
Louann is passionate about helping children, adolescents, and adults feel supported, understood, and empowered throughout their healing journey. She helps children safely explore emotions, develop coping skills, improve self-expression, and build confidence in ways that feel natural and engaging to them. She values meeting each child at their developmental level and creating a therapeutic environment where they can feel emotionally safe, accepted, and encouraged to thrive. Louann is fluent in both Mandarin and English and is dedicated to helping clients strengthen emotional connection, develop healthy coping strategies, and rediscover hope and resilience.
Art Therapist
MPS, M.Ed., LPAT, LCAT, ATR-BC
Lauren specializes in creating a warm, collaborative therapeutic environment that helps clients feel understood, empowered, and motivated to grow. Lauren integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, and creative expression to help clients navigate anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and relationship challenges. She works closely with families to ensure skills learned in therapy translate into meaningful, lasting change at home and in everyday life.
Art Therapist & Professional Counselor
MA, LPAT, LPC, ATR-BC
Rebecca is a compassionate and empathetic professional counselor and art therapist. She utilizes a person-centered and cognitive-behavioral therapy approach to help individuals explore and express their emotions and thoughts. Rebecca empowers clients to use coping skills to manage various mental health challenges, including stress, anxiety, depression, and impulsivity. Her collaborative and creative approach fosters a safe and supportive environment for personal growth. She works with children as well, utilizing art and play therapy to help them learn to self-regulate and manage their behaviors.
Art Therapist
MA, ATR-P, LAAT, LP-CAT
Maggie is a compassionate clinician with extensive experience guiding clients through life’s transitions and developmental stages. Her work with adults addresses a wide range of issues, including addiction, trauma, depression, and significant life changes. Maggie’s approach is known for being thoughtful, compassionate, and insightful. For many years, she has supported children, teens, and parents as well, offering valuable feedback on behavioral challenges.
Art Therapist
MPS, LAAT, LP-CAT
Erin’s background is in photography and art therapy. She incorporates expressive tools alongside talk-based approaches to support each client’s unique path. Erin helps clients navigate anxiety, depression, grief, neurodivergence, life transitions, LGBTQIA+ identity, and creative blocks. Their style is warm, empathetic, and grounded in acceptance and encouragement, creating a space where clients feel truly seen, heard, and supported.
Art Therapist
MPS, LCAT, LPAT
Guadalupe Hernandez has experience working with children and adults with depressed mood, ADHD, anxiety, recovery, trauma, and familial difficulties. She is especially compassionate, and her approach is creative and person-centered. She has worked with diverse populations across clinical and school-based settings, ensuring adaptability and expertise. She is bilingual.
New York Team
Clinical Supervisor - Pearl River office
MA, LCAT, LPAT
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 supports clients with anxiety, trauma, depression, recovery, 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.
Art Therapist - Irvington Office & virtual
MA, LCAT, ATR-BC
Tamar works with children, adolescents, adults, and families through a compassionate, client-centered approach grounded in attachment and family systems frameworks. Drawing from extensive clinical experience, she integrates art therapy and talk therapy to help clients navigate anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, family transitions, and relationship challenges. Tamar believes in the importance of creating a safe, supportive therapeutic environment where clients feel seen, understood, and empowered. Through strengthening self-awareness, emotional expression, and self-regulation skills, she helps clients build resilience, self-efficacy, and deeper connection in their relationships and daily lives.
Art Therapist - Irvington Office & virtual
MS, LCAT, ATR-BC
Tania supports children, teens, and families navigating life’s heaviest moments. With over a decade of experience, she specializes in trauma recovery, crisis intervention, and systemic family support. She provides adaptive art therapy tailored for youth with emotional and intellectual disabilities as well. Fluent in English and Spanish, she honors clients’ unique cultural and life experiences.
Art Therapist - Pearl River office & Virtual
MPS, LP-CAT
Kimberly utilizes a patient-centered framework to help clients explore and express their emotions through a blend of traditional talk therapy and creative arts. With a specialized focus on the creative community, she addresses the specific challenges artists face while providing a welcoming environment for adults and teens from all walks of life. Kim is highly experienced in treating anxiety, stress, addiction recovery, and grief. She is deeply committed to inclusivity, offering a safe space for LGBTQ+ individuals and those in diverse relationship structures. Through a collaborative and individualized approach, Kim empowers her clients to cope with life’s challenges and achieve meaningful personal growth.
Art Therapist - Pearl River office
MPS, LCAT, ATR-BC
Alison is a warm and dedicated therapist specializing in working with children, adolescents, and young adults. In her practice, she offers a safe, supportive space where clients can explore their emotions, build resilience, and find their voice. Whether working with a child navigating anxiety or a young adult facing life’s questions, Alison meets each client where they are and walks alongside them on their journey toward healing and growth.
Art Therapist - Pearl River office
MS, LP-CAT
Amy specializes in helping clients navigate the complexities of growth and development. By blending art therapy, play therapy, and traditional techniques with creative exploration, Amy addresses challenges like anxiety, family dynamics, self-regulation, and self-esteem. She is deeply committed to fostering an inclusive, inviting space where every young client feels comfortable. In Amy’s practice, creativity isn’t just an activity — it’s a powerful pathway to lasting growth, insight, and healing.
Virtual Only Team
Clinical Supervisor
MA, LCAT, LPAT, ATR-BC
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.
Art Therapist
MA, LCAT, ATR-BC
Kayla is dedicated to offering inclusive and trauma-informed care for neurodivergent individuals, the BIPOC community, the LGBTQ+ community, and anyone facing challenges such as anxiety, depression, grief identity shifts, or life transitions. With a focus on identity work, she supports clients in exploring their queerness, navigating cultural expectations redefining themselves after significant life changes, and discovering their true selves beyond societal pressures.la believes in the power of self-discovery and personal growth, creating a safe space for everyone to thrive.
Art Therapist
MPS, LP-CAT, ATR-BC
Emily partners with driven professionals, creatives, and adults who are ready to break through stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges to build a more resilient, fulfilling life. Whether you are aiming for next-level professional development or seeking profound personal healing from past trauma, her goal is to help you reconnect with your innate strengths. Emily has extensive experience supporting adults through life transitions, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. She is a bilingual Therapist (English/Spanish). Her approach combines creative expression with talk therapy.
Art Therapist
MA, LP-CAT
Bianca has a client-centered approach to therapy, prioritizing the goals of each individual. Bianca combines expressive, art-based techniques with traditional talk therapy, giving clients a unique, non-verbal way to explore anxiety, stress, self-esteem, life transitions, and emotional wellbeing. Whether you’re looking for a Hungarian-speaking therapist, an art therapist, or a virtual therapist in NY, Bianca creates a compassionate, non-judgmental space to help you feel understood and supported.
Art Therapist
MA, LP-CAT
Franki Desaro is an art therapist and certified spiritual director offering integrative wellness support that embraces both holistic and conventional care for your mind, body, and spirit. For those interested in blending soul and spirit into their therapeutic journey, she blends expressive art-based techniques with mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, yoga-informed practices, visualizations, affirmations, nature-informed wellbeing, and self-care guidance to support whole-being healing. She works with adolescents, young adults, and older adults through many seasons of life—whether you’re seeking stress relief or navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, neurodivergence, complex grief and loss, or life transitions. She enjoys working with individuals and couples.
Art Therapist
MPS, LCAT
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.
Art Therapist
MA, LCAT, ATR-BC
Nicole is a compassionate therapist dedicated to creating a safe and supportive space for her clients. With a down-to-earth approach, she combines art therapy and a person-centered methodology to help individuals navigate relationship issues, depression, and anxiety. Nicole believes in the power of authentic connection and encourages self-exploration through creative expression Her goal is to empower clients to find their voice and foster meaningful change in their lives.
Art Therapist
MA, LCAT, ATR
Alissa is an experienced art therapist specializing in both individual and couples counseling, offering a creative, integrative approach to healing that goes beyond traditional talk therapy. Using expressive, art-based techniques alongside evidence-based methods, Alissa helps clients and couples process emotions, deepen self-understanding, and work through relationship challenges in a compassionate, non-judgmental space. Alissa is a licensed art therapist and certified Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy provider. She does not prescribe, administer, or provide medical supervision for ketamine treatment. Ketamine is administered only by a licensed psychiatrist or medical provider, who conducts the required medical evaluation and oversees dosing and safety. Alissa’s role is strictly psychotherapeutic—providing emotional support, preparation, and integration therapy before, during (as a trained sitter), and after the ketamine experience. Clients interested in ketamine treatment will be referred to a partnering psychiatric provider for medical evaluation.
Art Therapist
MA, LCAT, LPAT, ATR-BC
Ashley is seasoned therapist who specializes in guiding clients through persistent depression, self-harm, disordered eating, anxiety, and the complexities of life transitions and relationship stress her supportive and collaborative approach fosters a safe space exploration, while she also believes in the power of gentle challenges to inspire real change. Together, you will uncover the patterns that hold you back, often using DBT skills and/or art-making as a tool for awareness and transformation. Work together with Ashley to turn your challenges into opportunities for growth.
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