ABOUT
It’s about meeting your needs.
You are coming here in search of help and guidance – not just a soundboard or a bobber head.
Therapy is a collaborative endeavor, and one approach does not fit all for therapy.
We draw from many approaches to tailor your therapy experience to you based on your values, the constellation of your symptoms, and your goals.
What type of therapist do you think will benefit you the most?
Integrative therapists can take a passive role, listening deeply, offering reflections, and giving you the space to share and feel heard while you unpack the contents of the deepest and less illuminated corners of your being.
We can hold the space, witness your process, and allow you to unload, unpack, and interpret.
A more active and directed approach also can be taken. This may include building coping skills, providing educated advice and feedback, expanding community resources, enhancing communication skill development, performing active trauma treatment, developing time and personal goal management, and teaching you practical strategies that you can use in your everyday life.
Within an integrative approach, you can expect to take a deep dive into your past, project into the future, and examine what you are doing now that is contributing to your status quo.
Our approach depends on you.
We will not ignore your background or the effects that your racial, ethnic, and cultural heritage play on your current situation.
A combination of approaches from cutting-edge developments in the field, including neuroscience-informed interventions, practical philosophy, cognitive behavioral therapy, couples and family therapy, trauma treatment, and multi-cultural competency will be used to help our clients find a better way forward.
It really depends on what the best approach is for your particular needs.
Meet Our Team
About Shanelia
Shanelia is a Pre-Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from CUNY-Hunter College. She obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Medgar Evers College. Ms. Rice has always had a passion for servicing her community and being of service to all those she has encountered.
As a therapist, Shanelia’s goal is to provide a safe, non-judgmental, supportive environment for her clients to grow as a person and develop skills that will improve their overall quality of life. She specializes in treating adolescents, adult individuals, families, and couples with respect, warmth, and empathy, utilizing psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) modalities to treat a wide range of mental health conditions, including but not limited to depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
As a proud Black Caribbean woman raised by her grandmother and surrounded by a hard-working family, she gained a reliable work ethic and a passion for working with people. Shanelia is prepared to meet clients ready to unpack their concerns, work through their challenges, set goals for themselves, and begin their healing process.
About Juan
Juan genuinely believes people can change and loves to witness people’s transformations during therapy. He was raised in a multicultural home in Mexico City and immigrated 10 years ago to the United States on his own.
Juan is a licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Board-Certified Music Therapist in New York state. He is kink/poly/trans/LGBTQAI+ affirming and values spirituality and faith-based resources. He specializes in C-PTSD, PTSD, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, grief, OCD, relationship/marital issues and cultural change.
The approach used by Juan is integrative, drawing from various styles and modalities (IFS, EMDR, CBT, ACT, existential, among others) to better tailor the therapy experience of each client to meet their needs and rhythm. We can provide therapy in English, Spanish, and Spanglish. Juan is competent in working with adolescents, couples, and adults.
On a more personal level, Juan enjoys making music, camping, doomsday prepping (finding off-grid living solutions on YouTube), cuddling his dog, and driving his motorcycle.
About Ilnara
Ilnara believes that every individual holds the innate capacity to heal, grow, and transform. As an advanced clinical intern on the cusp of completing her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, she is dedicated to guiding clients on their unique paths towards wellness. Fluent in both English and Russian, she is eager to connect with clients across linguistic barriers. Ilnara helps clients navigate a range of conditions, including anxiety, depression, stress management, and the aftermath of trauma. In her approach, she focuses on evidence-based trauma-informed therapeutic modalities, training in methods like EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS), while incorporating mindfulness and somatic practices into the counseling process. With an integrative, trauma-focused, and multicultural perspective, she tailors her approach to meet the unique needs of each client. Ilnara’s compassionate nature shines through as she places the utmost importance on building strong therapeutic relationships. She creates a safe and non-judgmental space where clients can be truly heard, understood, and empowered on their healing journeys. Outside the therapy room, Ilnara finds joy in running, practicing yoga, spending quality time with family and her Maltese dog. Being curious about various sensory experiences, she also finds herself indulging in the whimsical world of ASMR.
About Scott
Scott empowers his clients to transform and break free from the acquired and inherited burdens of life that block their capacity to love and connect with themselves and others deeply. He is kink/poly/trans/LGBTQAI+ affirming and values spirituality and faith-based resources. Through a multi-modal approach and a trauma informed lens, Scott uses various models of therapy (IFS, CBT, EMDR, ACT, psychodynamic, etc) to help people navigate a wide range of life impacting situations. Scott Specializes in anxiety, depression, trauma, abuse, life transitions, identity development, relationship issues, suicidality and theological trauma.
Scott spends most of his free time at public libraries and community events, enjoys being engaged in social justice activism, live music performances and writing poetry.
About Stacy
Stacy obtained their master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from SUNY Oswego. Starting from a Person Centered model, Stacy works with each client to maximize their unique strengths to overcome life’s challenges. They primarily use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients reframe negative or unhelpful thinking. Stacy specializes in working with people who have trauma histories, specifically Domestic and Sexual Violence.
As a queer and non-binary identifying person, Stacy has both lived experience with LGBTQIA+ issues, and experience with LGBTQIA+ clients. They also work full time in Supportive Housing working with a variety of issues including Crisis Intervention, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Cooccurring Disorder, Homelessness, Depression, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, Personality Disorder, and Suicidal Ideations.
On a personal note, Stacy enjoys finding unique events, going to concerts, riding their bike, going to the gym, and spending time on the beach or at parks.
About Melodie
Melodie is a licensed mental health counselor who believes in the power of change. Using an integrative and person-centered approach, she works with individuals to develop a deeper understanding of self as they navigate the world around them. Melodie has worked with individuals managing anxiety, depression, trauma, psychosis and other mental health barriers as they worked towards their goals.
Melodie creates a safe environment to promote openness and vulnerability as she works to create a therapeutic alliance. She has worked with people of many different backgrounds from a multiculturally competent and trauma informed lens. She welcomes people of all identities and offers therapeutic support as they navigate their lives.
About Tanesia
Fully equipped to uplift you during tough times, Tanesia holds a Master of Arts and a Master of Education in Psychological Counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition, she is a Certified Life Coach/Parent Coach, Published Author on Amazon and Barnes&Noble.com, Motivational Speaker, as well as a Teacher of conflict resolution and peer mediation. Her expert experience is grounded in counseling and education. Tanesia has taught elementary students, college students and parents, furthermore, counseled men and women addicted to drugs and alcohol, individuals formerly incarcerated, homeless, diagnosed with mental illness, in foster care, victims of domestic violence as well as people dealing with grief/ trauma. Professional and personal experience managing pain, Tanesia has had to navigate through challenging complexities in life such as poverty, domestic violence, single motherhood, codependency, as well as, depression and anxiety to name a few. In doing so, she has gained extensive knowledge how to identify triggers, manage emotions, practice self-care and ultimately cope with stress in a healthy way.
About Navin
About Jessica
Working through a multicultural lens, Jessica is committed to helping individuals gain deeper self awareness while exploring the impact of societal pressures and systemic oppression on their sense of self and the challenges they face. Through a blend of cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practice and psychodynamic therapy, Jessica works with individuals and couples to challenge the patterns that keep them “stuck”, increase emotion regulation and understand how the past can impact the present. She uses a person-centered, strength-based approach to reconnect individuals to their inner resources to meet their goals.
Jessica has helped adults, couples and teens through various issues, including anxiety, family conflict, post-traumatic stress disorder and significant life transitions. Jessica brings 10 years of experience in international education, identity and professional development. She provides therapy on workplace dynamics, imposter syndrome and career changes. Jessica is a bilingual therapist (English/Spanish), LGBTQ+ affirming and has a history of working with marginalized individuals. She values each person’s unique path and perspective, and will work to create a safe and collaborative environment throughout the therapeutic process.
About Maria
Maria has experience working collaboratively in supporting adults and couples who are seeking change. Her goal is to enhance individual capacities by creating a safe space that allows for self-understanding and identifying values, desires, and emotions which are key to one’s own identity.
About Shay
Shanay is a trauma-informed psychotherapist, incorporating a combination of mindfulness, somatic awareness, and CBT techniques in her practice. With nine years of clinical experience, she has worked with a wide range of individuals treating anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, existential/spiritual concerns, and issues related to race/gender identity. She also has extensive experience walking patients through the myriad of challenges associated with severe and terminal illnesses.
Her goal is to help identify barriers to a higher quality of life as the individual understands it, cultivate compassion in the process, and discover one’s own empowered inner wisdom along the way. Shanay also believes strongly in the creative process as a means toward gaining deeper insight and making meaningful, integrated connections with self and others. Her background in creative arts therapy offers interested clients the opportunity to also incorporate musical and artistic elements into their process.
About Corina
Corina is committed to breaking the stigma around mental health that holds back individuals from receiving care. She provides individual therapy to adults who are navigating through life transitions. As a therapist, Corina enjoys working with college students and young professionals who are discovering their purpose, learning to set boundaries, and navigating identity or relationship changes. She guides individuals in developing coping skills, gaining clarity about their career path or building lives that fulfill them personally and professionally.
Her mission is to empower individuals to embody their truest, most authentic self so they can feel confident and build stronger relationships. Corina uses a person-centered approach to support individuals in meeting their goals. Using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), she works with clients in reframing unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She also draws from a psychodynamic approach to assist clients in understanding how the past has influenced their present behavior in relationships and experiences. Her vision is for individuals to understand themselves better as well as recognize that their feelings and needs matter.
About Brandon
Brandon is a motivated and dedicated advanced clinical intern who is currently working on finishing his Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling at Hunter College. He is passionate when it comes to mental health and how the human mind operates. He believes that therapy can be beneficial to anyone during any time of their lives. Brandon is excited to use the different counseling styles and techniques he is gaining experience with through his clinical courses. He believes in a holistic approach to understand the bigger picture of his client’s lives. He welcomes people of all identities and backgrounds to allow him to join in on their mental health journey.
On a personal note, Brandon enjoys going to music festivals, spending time with his dog and watching or playing sports.
If you are ready to write a new chapter in your life and break free of the destructive patterns that are holding you back from finding a better way forward, call now: (917) 268-9213.